California Vacation- The Drive Part 1

I have soooo many pictures of our vacation, I thought I might have to blog it in parts!  So Part 1 is the drive to California. We were so excited to get to California we left at 5 am! We were hoping the kids would be so tired that they would sleep until we hit Vegas! No such luck. They were way too excited.

  The kids traveled really well. I was so worried about Cassidy ( who had been recently potty trained) would've had an accident in her car seat. She amazed me. I think I had to use the bathroom more often than she did.  The drive was event free until . . . we hit Las Vegas. We had gotten there around 11-11:30 am. Then all of a sudden we hit a major traffic jam!!  We thought there had to be a major accident. We hadn't moved for a least 15-20 mins. Come to find out there wasn't any accident. . . Just President Obama trying to leave Las Vegas on Air Force One. I couldn't believe it!! Of course HE had to be in Vegas the same time we were there. Oh well, makes a good vacation story!!LOL. We stopped  in Vegas to stretch our legs and have lunch at the Rainforest Cafe.

  The kids had a great time. We also went to the M&M factory and the Coke Factory. Where we had to have a bottled Coke and take a picture with the Coke bear.

The kids really had fun but were anxiousto get to California so they could go swimming. 

After what seemed to be a long second half of the drive, we made it to San Diego. When we got to the hotel all the kids could talk about was going swimming ( which was the topic of everyday we were on vacation except for when we were at Disneyland). I think next year we will just find a really fun pool and go there everyday for a week and save money. So we ( I should say everyone except MOM) went swimming. I just sat, watched and took pictures. It was an exhausting day and we were planning to go to the San Diego Zoo the next day.