Tuesday we left Northern California to drive to Southern California for the last part of our vacation. Michael had already returned for classes on Monday so we put Titus and Courage in their car seats, and Joyce, Samantha and I headed down Highway 99 to La Mirada. The trip started out badly with a speeding ticket on Mother Lode Drive in El Dorado. What made it really bad was that it was right where my mom and dad had spoken about, "Watch out for the downhill part of the road. It is easy to lose track of your speed and the CHP likes to sit there and watch for speeders." That is exactly what happened as my speed hit 63 (or so I was told) in a 50 zone. Arrrrggg! Nevertheless, despite the ticket and the foggy conditions the trip went well. The kids traveled great. We stopped in Visalia and let them play in the Mcdonald's play yard for about an hour - as you can see from the pictures.
Now we are at Mike and Samantha's house
and spent yesterday mostly running errands. I took Titus to Starbucks for breakfast (thanks mom for the Starbucks card for Christmas) and he went around the restaurant introducing himself, "Hi, I am Titus. I play football." We have also been amazed at how much Courage has grown and developed while we have been here. She stood on her own for a few seconds and is looking like she might take off walking pretty soon. It has really been a blessing for us to be able to be with them and we will really miss them when we head back to Guam next week. As you can see Joyce is enjoying coloring with Titus and I have enjoyed watching sports with him streamed live on the computer.
It was also
hard to say good bye to family up in NorCal. We went out with my family to go bowling and have a family day on Saturday. (See Titus and Mike bowling in the video I posted on my Facebook page). Then on Monday we spent most of the day over at Joyce's mom and dad's (left) place cleaning out our kids' stored stuff there to bring it back to them. Our rental car was stuffed to the max with our kids' stuff on our trip.
Now we are waiting for Missy and Cliff to arrive from Texas to complete the family vacation. We will hang around with them (and head to San Diego for part of the time to have all 3 kids together with us for the first time since Mike and Sam got married on New Years Day 2006) for about 4 days. It is also great to get to meet Batman up close and personal.
Tuesday we left Northern California to drive to Southern California for the last part of our vacation. Michael had already returned for classes on Monday so we put Titus and Courage in their car seats, and Joyce, Samantha and I headed down Highway 99 to La Mirada. The trip started out badly with a speeding ticket on Mother Lode Drive in El Dorado. What made it really bad was that it was right where my mom and dad had spoken about, "Watch out for the downhill part of the road. It is easy to lose track of your speed and the CHP likes to sit there and watch for speeders." That is exactly what happened as my speed hit 63 (or so I was told) in a 50 zone. Arrrrggg! Nevertheless, despite the ticket and the foggy conditions the trip went well. The kids traveled great. We stopped in Visalia and let them play in the Mcdonald's play yard for about an hour - as you can see from the pictures.
Now we are at Mike and Samantha's house 
and spent yesterday mostly running errands. I took Titus to Starbucks for breakfast (thanks mom for the Starbucks card for Christmas) and he went around the restaurant introducing himself, "Hi, I am Titus. I play football." We have also been amazed at how much Courage has grown and developed while we have been here. She stood on her own for a few seconds and is looking like she might take off walking pretty soon. It has really been a blessing for us to be able to be with them and we will really miss them when we head back to Guam next week. As you can see Joyce is enjoying coloring with Titus and I have enjoyed watching sports with him streamed live on the computer.
It was also
hard to say good bye to family up in NorCal. We went out with my family to go bowling and have a family day on Saturday. (See Titus and Mike bowling in the video I posted on my Facebook page). Then on Monday we spent most of the day over at Joyce's mom and dad's (left) place cleaning out our kids' stored stuff there to bring it back to them. Our rental car was stuffed to the max with our kids' stuff on our trip.
Now we are waiting for Missy and Cliff to arrive from Texas to complete the family vacation. We will hang around with them (and head to San Diego for part of the time to have all 3 kids together with us for the first time since Mike and Sam got married on New Years Day 2006) for about 4 days. It is also great to get to meet Batman up close and personal.
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