Ok well this was 2 weeks ago now! I took Friday off work for a family roadtrip. I figured it would be the last chance to go out of town before harvest comes along and takes away all my weekends! We left Friday morning and headed south. The drive down was pretty uneventful (always a good thing with a baby on board). We made it to Chico Hills with just a couple stops. We were thrilled to see Aunt Moni, Uncle Marcel and cousins Dean and Ani! They just had moved back from Puerto Rico, and we are so so glad to have them back in Cali!! We had a yummy sushi lunch (everything was $2.50 at this neat restaurant- the sizes of rolls just varied). The Raudas were housesitting for a friend, but have found a really nice apartment in the area where Dean will go to the same school as his best friend Katelyn. First grade next year! Wow!! Sienna had fun watching her cousins play and loved watching the fish in their aquarium.
Then we headed out to Aunt Sara and Uncle Mark's in Huntington Beach. It was great to kick back and catch up Friday night.
Saturday was going to be a day at the beach! We got everything together and headed down (just a mile from their house).
Unfortunately it was too late of a start and it was already PACKED. No luck finding a free parking spot, or maybe if we drove around for a couple hours. So we headed towards the huge $10 parking lot, but it was backed up for an insane distance because the lot was full and closed off! Bummer! So we headed back to Sara's and went to the pool instead. Aunt Carrie came up from San Diego and Auntie Marcey came down from Redondo. We had a fun afternoon of chatting, playing with the munchkin and eating. Sienna had fun with everyone, showed off her rolling and scooting abilities. She also started "walking" with Daddy holding onto her hands. Like taking huge steps forward on her own! Later we played Wii and drank margaritas!
Sunday we went back to Chino Hills to meet the Raudas for lunch at Russell's fav Buffalo Wild Wings. We polished off some wings! Marcel and Russell played the trivia game and Sienna admired her cousins... She was especially interested in everything Ani was doing, it will be exciting to see them grow up together!
Then we headed home and Sienna slept like 2 hours straight. Then we entertained each other with silly noises, singing and toys. She started getting fussy so we stopped for a diaper change at a Jack in the Box. Russell got out to stretch and very luckily noticed a nail sticking straight out of the front tire! It wasn't flat yet. So baby and I hung out while Daddy changed the tire. Must have been a lovely site since we had all of our luggage out on the side in order to get to the spare tire. And it was only like 100 out... So we very carefully drove the hour and a half home and got in safely. We figure Sienna was letting us know there was something wrong, because it could have been a real real disaster!
To finish the story, Monday morning I went to try and get the tire fixed but the nail was in the sidewall (right at the border) so we had to buy a new one!
Other than that we had a fabulous trip and look forward to the next once I get through the endless weeks of harvest!!!
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