Monday, July 20, 2015

California Dreaming Day 2

 
The problem with Pricelineing your hotels is sometimes you get a really nice hotel for a great price.  This happened to us many times on this trip. We only stayed at one place that did not have white robes ready for my use, that and no free continental breakfast is how I seperate the 4 Stars from the 3 Stars.  This is great when Robert is traveling alone or with me.  But I have decided when you travel with kids it is nice to have that free or at least onsite breakfast option.  Taking the first person under six down to get a muffin and some juice it priceless if everyone else can snooze another hour.  But the perks of no hotel breakfast is you get to venture out and find some good local food, which on Fathers Day lead us to these delicious and big as Rob's head breakfast burritos.  We ate al-fresco which we tried to do the whole trip. I think Robert and I agreed that this was our favorite food the whole trip.
 
After breakfast I thought we should find a walmart, buy a small cooler and stock up on some essentials.  It was so nice to have some juice and granola bars to throw at the kids the rest of the mornings! We also grabbed a couple of towels and some snacks for the beach.
Robert dropped us off near the beach and he started the journey of finding a parking spot and then figuring out how to pay.  It was so nice to be dropped off, but I felt so bad since it used up a lot of our beach time and family time for him, and on Father's Day!
 Noelle enjoying a cinnamon danish
 Our little beach spot
 Checking out the pier
 How lucky are our little Kibbe kids to have had their feet in the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic and now the Pacific Oceans. I'll even add in Lake Superior since it seems like an ocean.

 Gpa Dallas soakig up the rays

 The kids were excited to see palm trees

 Noelle loves sand/digging. She was quite dirty.  I was thankful for the beach showers.  I just read that the State of California was turning most of them off this week because of the drought.


 He loved to run into and then Hulk smash the waves
 Em would run in and then turn her body
 After beach time we settled into the next hotel and rested a bit.  We decided Robert needed ice cream for dinner for Father's Day so we set out to find a local joint.  I had a monkey tail, Robert had a couple different flavours in his waffle cone. We gave Rob the cards we had made and packed and celebrated his love for us!

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