California Love

We arrived in California on Saturday morning. Everything has been amazing!

 Our very own Aunt Edna: As I frequently do, I feel the need to make yet another Vacation reference. We have started calling Bailey Edna in the car due to her unique little set up in the backseat.  She has her sunglasses on under this as well and is watching a movie with her headphones on. She says its so she is in a movie theatre. We have a strange kid. 

We headed out onto the road Thursday night and made it about an hour from Colorado before stopping  for a couple of hours at a rest stop.  Throughout Iowa and Nebraska Bailey was so interested in all the water towers, windmills and even the power lines.  After sleeping in the backseat of the Passat with all of our luggage and a 6 year old, I have found another reason to appreciate this 5 feet tall height of mine.  I think I was a bit more comfortable than Brent.

So after about a 4 hour stop, it was back on the road.  We agreed on doing 5 hour driving stretches but decided to have Brent tackle the mountains of Denver.  That left the beautiful yet very boring stretch of Utah for me.  For those of you who may not know,  Brent has a pretty intense fear of heights (similar im magnitude to my fear of snakes but I will mention that later).  This fear gets really bad back home driving in Duluth Even so you can imagine how fun it was driving though Utah with althe canyons.

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 This is from a rest stop in Utah.  If you notice it is taken of Brent and Bailey walking down a path in the desert from in side the car.  As a person who has panic attacks walking into a pet store for fear of running into a display of snakes, taking a stroller through rattle snake habitats didnt seem to be safe or something I wanted any part of.

We made it as far as Vegas that night.  We hadn't planned on staying there on a Friday night so not only got to experience Vegas quite differently by having a 6 years old with and staying as Bailey put it "in a junk hotel".  Maybe the fact that as we pulled up there were guys sitting on the trrunk of a car drinking 40's without shirts on was a sign to her that this wad not the Bellagio.  All was well and we explored a little that morning before heading to Anaheim.

Well this tablet is starting to think it can write this blog much better than I can I will end there and go get dressed for Disneyland.  I

From our weird family,