Oh that California sunshine

I was all excited to do a "ten-on-ten" post (ten pictures describing your day on the 10th day of the month) and this one was going to be particularly exciting. The first would've been Brie, Bekah and I at 4:30am shoving all our stuff into the car and heading south. But, half way through Washington I realized that I forgot my camera. Thus, putting a stop to my ten on ten post to say the least.

Anyhow, our exciting trip began at 4:30 in the morning and continued through Washington, Oregon and the majority of California until we rolled into Tustin at around 1:45 am. 21 hours - not too bad.

First agenda was the beach of course. We headed to Huntington with hopes of introducing our albino Seattle skin to the California sunshine. There is nothing better than laying on the warm sand, listening to the waves (and incredibly inappropriate conversations of those surrounding us...and here is something fascinating: when you are talking in an open public beach other people can hear you - shocking I know).
Second thing for us to do: Disneyland of course!! Thursday was spent running around with silly grins slapped on our faces in a land where time stands still and magic happens. We hit all the major rides and shopped until our feet insisted on a mutiny to make the walking/standing madness stop.

There were pirates:

And princesses: (in which Brie and I gleefully stood in line for while Bekah rolled her eyes as we dragged her along...we also met a 4 year old princess by Dumbo who declared as loudly as possible: I AM A PRINCESS AND YOU NEED TO STOP YELLING AT ME.

And all around smiles and way too much fun:

Third order of business was of course the beach again! This time Newport where we met a mermaid.

Sometime after Disneyland and before our next adventure I may or may not have been running in a dark room full of lots of hazards being silly with the girls and broken my big toe. What's a vacation with out a little bruising? Oy vey.

And we couldn't leave out Hollywood!

A slight detour to Pep Boys...

And of course, we strolled Rodeo Dr.