We survived...

Another family road trip. Only this time the drive was a little shorter and we drove straight without stopping. We drove up to Fresno to spend the weekend with our great friends Franklin and Lisa. Since Will isn’t able to take too much time off work and we don’t get to see our friends as much as we would like, so we decided to drive up and spend a night in Fresno then two nights in Moro Bay. We got into Fresno at midnight on Thursday. It was hot and Caylin and Anika thought it was pretty exciting to be up so late. They were so excited that they didn’t end up falling asleep until 2am! After a 5 hour drive that was painful! I sat in the backyard trying to get Anika to sleep while Caylin played around with her buddy Gavin’s bike. It was a rough night. Amazingly enough we all felt pretty good the next morning considering the kind of night we had. We spent the day out on the lake boating, swimming, tubing, and wakeboarding. Caylin loved swimming in the wide open lake, she and Aiana were so excited to try tubing too. After our day on the lake we drove to Moro Bay to spend a couple nights at Franklin’s family’s beach house. We survived the 2 hour drive talking the whole time about cows and cows pooping! I just don’t know what it is about 3 yr olds and poop…anyway…
Saturday was an awesome day. The adults got to go on a wine tasting tour and enjoyed 8 hours kid free!!!! We visited 4 different wineries; however, we were pretty much “done” with wine tasting after the 3rd winery. Lisa and I both brought our cameras and had a blast taking photos of, well, everything. I haven’t laughed so hard in a LONG time! That wine tasting trip alone was worth a 6 hour drive.
It was good to get back to the kids. They did great with the babysitters; however, later that day Caylin threw up all over Will. That was the beginning of what I guess was a little flu bug? I was worried because we were driving home the next day. She seemed to be ok by the morning, so we continued with our plans to drive home. We drove for about an hour and stopped when Caylin began to complain about her tummy. We pulled over to play at the park for a while. There was a little lake at the park with geese and ducks. I enjoyed watching the girls feed the birds and run from the aggressive geese. After this we managed to drive a few more hours to Santa Barbra before Caylin began to complain again. This was a great stop. Santa Barbra is beautiful. We had a picnic on the beach and enjoyed a live concert given by the local homeless band. They lip sank to 50’s music and played on a keyboard made out of cardboard, microphone that was a lantern, and a guitar made from material with pink feathers all over it. The rest of the drive home was, well, it had it’s moments but we didn’t have to stop anymore. We were happy to get home, but we were exhausted. Anika came down with a cold and we’ve spent the rest of the week trying to get through that. It was all worth it though, we had a great time!