Spring Break 2009

We're back from our latest adventure--a whirlwind trip to Disneyland and California Adventure. It's a two-day drive from Sisters, nearly 2,000 miles roundtrip. We stopped half way and stayed overnight at Beale AFB...near Marysville and Yuba City in northern CA. It was a little off track, but we made up for it by visiting the commissary and stocking up on some groceries and sundries we pay almost double for here in Central Oregon. We also took advantage of the inexpensive military haircuts for the boys....Julia went shopping and David gave the instructions to the Barbers. Don't think she'll do that again. In the end, it cost us more, because we had to by hats to protect their newly scalped heads. After picking up our 3-day Park Hopper tickets at the base (including a free one for David as a military retiree) we headed to Anaheim and stayed in the RV at a park about a mile from Disneyland. This gave us a short trip into the park and free fireworks show every night!!! See some of our vacation pictures in our Kodak Gallery at the link below:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/ViewSlideshow.action?&collidparam=8537530603.641649980703.1238516557738

You can also see a video of Max enjoying a roller coaster ride here:

We also dropped in and paid David's brother Dan and his wife Judi a visit in Coalinga. They were pretty surprised as we gave them all of 40 minutes notice...well sort of. We called Dan's cell and got a message and when we called their house, they thought we were a wrong number, so we got hung up on. Anyway, a 15 miles side trip is nothing to take a chance and stop in, so stop in we did and surprised them as they were relaxing from the work week on Saturday afternoon. We stayed about an hour and a half and then headed back north to Beale for our half way stop and rest. Winds were high Sunday, so we delayed our departure until Monday morning. By then we had gone to church, shopped the commissary and refueled for the trip home. We got home around 6 pm and I think the happiest was Pippin who missed all his local dog smelling stops and yard to romp in. We're doing tons of laundry today and just catching up from our week away.