California Trip

Part two of Vacation Extravaganza was a trip to California to see my Dad and sister, Rachael's, families for Easter.

We left on Wednesday night. Davey was old enough to understand about airplanes and how they go in the sky and he really enjoyed watching them from the terminal window and being able to fly in one.

Thursday

Thursday was our low key day. The crazy Rays weren't expected to arrive until the evening so we just played around with Jeremy and Jared, my two little brothers. We took a trip to the mall to play on the plastic rocks and get ice cream.

Davey and Jeremy: Davey made good friends with Jeremy. He liked to laugh at him in the backseat of the car and let him hold his hand while helping him up on the plastic rocks. Davey, as usual, was scared of baby Jared, Davey seems to be scared of anything smaller then him, but loves to play with older kids.

Jeremy, Jared, Dad

Friday

On Friday, we took a trip to Calico. Calico is an old mining ghost town. It was dusty and very cowboy-ish. We learned lots of interesting facts and had fun.

In the old school house, they provided the kids with old chalkboards and chalk. Davey looks pretty excited for school in this picture.

Jeremy and Jackson

They had a train on the old train track you could take rides on. (This picture also shows off my preggo face well.)

Jordyn

Joseph in an old Chinese bath. Calico had a fairly substantial Chinese district during its hay day.

After an afternoon at Calico, the adults went on a trip date to celebrate my brother-in-law, Lyal's, birthday. Lyal wanted sushi. Joseph was brave enough to try a few bites, but Joseph and I ordered the chicken, cooked. This restaurant does, however, have the best ginger salad, very yum!

We went home and watched a movie.

Saturday

Saturday was a super busy day for us. First we went to see Jeremy's first t-ball game of the season. That was fun to watch and the Easter bunny even stopped by to give Davey five.

Then we squeezed in the last hour of morning conference before heading off to the zoo. Don't get super excited, folks. It is a very small zoo, but it was still fun. Their claim to fame is that their lion is the lion used for Aslan in the new Narnia movies, the lion was sleeping though, so we couldn't see his face.

Davey trying to feed a llama

After the zoo we went to the park for a picnic lunch. At home the boys got ready to go to Priesthood meeting, while the girls baked and helped the kids dye Easter eggs.

When the boys got back we had our Easter egg hunt. Davey picked up on the concept quickly and had a lot of fun getting eggs. I was, as usual because I'm his mom, very impressed at how well he did.

Everybody after the hunt

Later that night we watched another movie. We watched Food, Inc. I liked it a lot, although it is disturbing on many levels. I recommend it to anyone, however, eat all the chicken, beef and pork you'll ever want to before watching the movie.

Sunday

On Sunday, we watched both sessions of conference. Then we had a wonderful Easter dinner. During our dinner, Davey experienced his first earthquake. Joseph and I didn't notice we were in an earthquake at first, because Davey was standing up on a chair and rocking it back and forth, so we though we were just feeling him rock it. It was pretty mild by the time it reached us up in the high desert (The epicenter was in Baja California, a little bit below the border) and there was no damage. Mostly my family was disappointed that it wasn't Joseph's first earthquake, since Joseph had been in some during his mission in Chile.

After the earthquake, my family headed back to the airport to go back home. Our flights were delayed because of the earthquake and we got home pretty late.

The third and final part of our Vacation Extravaganza will be in two weeks when we fly off to Texas to visit Joseph's brother's family.