One day last winter Elise and I were discussing colors found in nature. When I asked her what color the sky is, the poor child insisted the sky is grey. Technically she was right - the sky in the Northwest is consistently cloudy and overcast from about September to June - but oh, July and August!! However, for the majority of the year it is drizzly, wet, and dark.
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| Exibit A: Do you see the overcast sky? This picture was taken on a "nice" day. (Please ignore D.J.'s ridiculous Movember handlebar mustache.) |
Everyone told us to take a vacation in February. That is about the time cabin fever sets in and sitting near the kitchen stove with the oven light turned on feels pretty marvelous. So we escaped the never-ending cloud cover and flew to California.
We stayed in Carlsbad; right on the beach.
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| See the blue sky?! |
Elise kept us busy filling buckets with water and building sandcastles.
We spent a couple of days visiting D.J.'s cousins,Tii and Nathaniel. Tii and his fiance, Teresa, took us out for Thai food, and Elise made fast friends with Nathaniel and Janitsy's two adorable boys while we visited at their home.
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| Arrgh! Scurvy pirates! |
While in Carlsbad we won tickets from our hotel to the Birch Aquarium, which worked out perfectly, because the rainy weather followed us from Seattle for part of the trip.
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| See the shark eyeing Elise on the bottom left? |
My Mom and Dad, and youngest siblings Emily and Tyler joined us at the end of the week, too. We went to the Mormon Battalion Visitor's Center...
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| Tyler and Elise got to dress in period clothing, and Elise struck it rich panning for gold. |
Then to Knott's Berry Farm...
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| Even Grandma and Grandpa rode the roller coasters! |
...then on to Disneyland!
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| We were all magically exhausted by the end of the day. |
So we got our fill of California sunshine and fun! It was so nice to see family there, too. When's our next vacation?
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