Ski Week is our Jam

Ski Week they call it.

A week off after President's Day in February.

We made plans to take a trip down to LA and made some fun stops heading down and back.

We all loved it!

We hit Pinnacles National Park just outside of Hollister.

We parked and hiked through the park, it was beautiful and green from all the rain...a good way to start our trip off :)

Views from our drive through Central California...

rolling green hills as far as the eye could see.

We stopped in SLO for an early dinner and made it to Pismo Beach to catch the sunset and grab the best cinnamon rolls!

Day one in LA: The Getty Villa in Malibu, lunch and surf shop called Sea and Soul right by Zuma.

Such a beautiful day.

Glad we spent it there.

I preferred this over the bigger Getty on the hill. The kids liked it too since we were done with our visit in just over an hour...haha.

Day two in LA, we headed down to see Carly in Hermosa Beach for a hair appointment and I got to visit with Charmaine!

It was lovely and we got buttermilk bars from Lucky Donuts in El Segundo :)

Day Three was one for the books!

We spent an entire day (14.5 hours) at Disneyland and California Adventureland...here are some scenes in no particular order.

First ride of the day

Rise of the Resistance!

we love Winnie the Pooh still :)

Splash!

another all time fave...

The Haunted Mansion

So glad we got the park hopper tickets...California Adventure had a the super fun Incredicoaster!

Their love for Mater has not waned!

Guardians of the Galaxy!

We rode Splash Mountain twice...(early and got soaked)and the last ride of the day(maybe got soaked again).

I love it.

their glee after the cars ride :)

I just can't physically go on the teacups. I get sick just watching them!

We sent this photo to Henry hahaha

My kids are way more excited about Radiator Springs/Cars Land than the Star Wars part.

Ka-chow!

Late lunch at the Carnation Cafe :)

Reenacting a childhood memory of her trying to open the Alice in Wonderland door on her 4th birthday :)

This is my favorite part of the park STILL...Frontierland :)

They had way more fun than they had imagined they could!

up, up and away!

the day after Disneyland I was exhausted and then felt sick to my stomach. I don't think my body was happy with 14.5 hours of rides and food and no sleep :)

Anyway,

We meandered up the 101 for home as planned although it was raining cats and dogs. We stopped in the quaint Danish town of Solvang!

It was beautiful despite the rain.

Clay and Chester were definitely not into walking around but the power went off and so all the shops and cafes closed.

We headed home...

and ended our Ski week surfing at surfers beach :)

Until next year!

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