Water gun fights. Desserts by Libby. She LOVES to bake and has made strawberry pretzel salad, multiple cakes, and so many cookies and muffins! Dirty board. UNO. UNO Dare. Yard Yahtzee. Headphones. Game after game to help keep ourselves entertained. Reading all the books. ...
Scenes from Quarantine, Part 1
On Friday, March 13, we began preparing for ways the Coronavirus might affect us. By Saturday, schools were closing for an "extended Spring Break" and closing dates moved from Wednesday to Tuesday to Monday. Gatherings were reduced from 500 to 250 to 50 to 10. Every news briefing issued new ...
California Day 7: Homebound
We woke up early on day 7 and headed to the LAX airport. Our flight went from LAX to San Francisco, then San Francisco to Chicago, and Chicago to home. LAX to San Fran was beautiful, San Fran to Chicago went smoothly, and in Chicago, we ran into a little problem. We knew we had a scheduled ...
California Day 6: San Diego Zoo
On our 6th day in California, we went to the San Diego Zoo. We were one of the first cars in the parking lot when they opened and one of the last to leave! There isn't a bit of the San Diego Zoo that our family did not explore and we LOVED it! The first thing we did was hop on the double ...
California Day 5: San Diego, La Jolla Cove, and Coronado Island
On day 5 of our vacation, we said good-bye to Pops and Gra-Gra. They headed home while we hit the road towards San Diego. San Diego ended up being our favorite stop in California--it was absolutely gorgeous and I can't wait to go back! Driving in, we stopped by scenic La Jolla Cove. The ...
California Day 4: California Adventures
California vacation day 4 was spent at California Adventures. When the park opened, we made a bee-line for Cars Land and it was awesome. We met Lightning McQueen and rode Mater's Junkyard Jamboree and Luigi's Rollickin' Roadsters. After Cars Land, we got in line for the Radiator Springs ...
