Summer Vacation Side Trip

After leaving Medford, we headed down to Tiffany (Greg's siter) and Eric's house in Sunnyvale, California just outside of San Francisco. Everyone did great in the car again. We arrived on a Friday evening to Tiff's new house. Can I just say I love California. She has seven fruit trees, most of which are citrus, in her backyard. Having fresh squeezed lemon-aid from her back yard was such a treat. Nelson and Alli ran and played with their three cousins, Corban, Luke and Jeremy the whole time we were there. We went to see the two older boys compete in a swim meet at Stanford on Saturday. That evening, Greg, Nelson and Shawna took a quick flight down to San Diego. Alli and her grandparents drove in the "movie car" on Sunday. Those who flew were picked up at the San Diego airport by Greg's Uncle Larry (his mom's brother.) We spent the night at Larry and Jackie's beach house. It is mine (Shawna's) favorite place in the world to be. We all really love it there. They were so kind to us the whole week we were there. We visited the decomissioned aircraft carrier 'The Midway.' It was so neat to see the history behind it. We had never been on something so big before. We really enjoyed seeing what Greg's Grandpa Nelson's carrier may have looked like he flew from during WWII. We borrowed Larry's truck and took Nelson to Disneyland on Monday. It was fun to go back again especially since Nelson was tall enough to ride all the rides. We were lucky enough to not wait in many long lines and we stayed out of the sun most of the day. We had dinner at the Blue Bayou which is a tradition going back to Greg and Shawna's honeymoon. It was a wonderful day. Alli's car ride with Grandma and Grandpa went very well too.