What a Weekend!

Whew!! What a great long holiday weekend! We kept ourselves VERY busy!! Friday night we were at the Lake Elsinore outlets to do some shopping. They had bounce houses, clowns and face painters! Too bad it was so dang hot! We got some good summer shopping in though!!

Saturday morning we were up bright and early to get to Disneyland right when they opened!! We wanted to get there before the crowds and before it got too hot! We rode Small World (Sarah's favorite), the Tea Cups (another Sarah fave) then Pirates of the Caribbean - I don't think she's ever going to forgive us for bringing her on that ride! She's still mad about it!! After Pirates we went to California Adventure to check out the new Ariel ride! I think Sarah was a bit skeptical after the horrors of Pirates but she seemed to enjoy it! There are lots of brigt colors and the music is great! Sarah then wanted to go on the ferris wheel...yes, the GIANT ferris wheel at CA...Luckily she's too small to go on the swinging cars but she LOVED the stationary ones! Poor Chris was a bit nervous due to his fear of heights. Afterwards we had lunch at the Bakery Cafe (or something like that) where we had the BEST bread bowl salad and chili! Why hadn't we eaten there before?? It was then getting REALLY hot and REALLY crowded so it was time to head home.

Sunday was spent with Auntie Tiff, Uncle David, Kaylin and Cami at their house in Cherry Valley!! What a fun afternoon and evening!! Lots of different toys and best of all a HUGE cat condo (for their kitties)!!! Sarah was on the top "floor" of that thing within minutes of arriving at the house and spent a good part of the rest of her time there. She LOVED it!! Too bad we don't have any cats...Yummy BBQ and good friends...a great way to spend the day!!

For the 4th of July we decided to take Sarah to her first Independence Day parade in downtown Corona. We went out to breakfast first then drove on over to watch the festivities. You can tell how excited Sarah was watching it (while sitting on Chris' shoulders). I think we lasted about 20 minutes which was fine with Chris and me...it was SO HOT!!! Later that day, Auntie Darcy, Jordan and Andrew came over for some bounce house and water fun!! We also BBQ'd and tried to stay cool indoors! I think the kids had a good time...what do you think? And thank you to Auntie Darcy for cutting Sarah's bangs!! She can now see!!

Sarah was EXHAUSTED Monday night and crashed not long after our guests left. She/we missed the fireworks...which was OK with us. We'd had a great weekend though!! Now we need another one to rest up...

Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend!!