Family vacation

For Christmas this year we decided to take a family vacation. We have annual passes to Disneyland this year so naturally we decided that is where our trip would be. At first it was just going to be a week at Disneyland but then a good friend that lives in Burbank called us and said they would be on Utah for the whole of Christmas break and would we want to use their house an watch their cat in Burbank since we were going to be in the vicinity anyhow. It was an answer to our prayers. It gave us the ability to take the whole two weeks and spend it as a family in Southern California. Our tickets aren't good for the week of Christmas since we didn't want to pay the extra for no blockout dates but that was okay with us as we had never done anything in SoCal but Disneyland.
So here we are enjoying comparatively warm weather and seeing many sights in LA and surrounding areas.

Day one-

We arrived in Burbank about 1 in the morning and promptly fell into bed as slept until 10 or so in the morning. Then we headed up to Solvang, taking time to drive through Santa Barbara on our way. Solvang is a little Danish town and seeing as Lars is Danish, and by natural design my kids are too :) So we decided to take the 2 hour trip up to see it. It was fun though we felt we didn't have enough time to do it justice. The drive up there was gorgeous though and worth every second of those two hours.

It's a lot of family togetherness so there is plenty of squabbles and complaining but there is also plenty of laughs, wonder, an memories being made.

I'll post more tomorrow!