Le blog de Meaghan: vacation

Monday, April 21, 2014

December in California 2013 {catch up}

We left Christmas day to drive out to California for Mason's family get together with all his cousins and Aunts and Uncles. We stopped half way in Mesquite, NV for the night and then drove the rest of the way to Orange county where we spent the night in a hotel. Mason got to have a jam session with his old drummer Vega out there and then we headed south to Coronado for the family party. Mason's parents were already out in California for Christmas so we met up with them when we got there. We got to stay on the army base there because Mason's Grandpa is a veteran. It was so nice and right on the beach. We stayed the night and the next day was the family party. It was so nice to see everyone and visit. We stayed one more night and then headed North to Livermore, CA to see my sister.

We spent New years with my sister and her family, it was so fun to see my big sister pregnant at the same time as me. I helped her a little bit to get ready for her baby. Her kids played so great with Max and Jack we were so sad to leave.

The beach in December!

Mason's cousin's baby, Rebecca

Jack, always with Grandpa

Playground on the beach

At Aunt Becky's and uncle Shane's!

Sweet Analynn loving Jack.

And poor Jack scraped up his nose tripping in his sandals in a parking lot

Pregnant sisters!

Jonah

Isaiah

Analynn

New Years Eve

New Years day

On the road home...

Cruise November 2013!

The third day in Florida we drove to Miami to get to our cruise boat. Max was so excited to go on a big "pirate ship" as he called it. We all got settled in our rooms and met up for dinner later that evening. It was so cool we got to eat at the same table with the same waiters with the whole family every evening at 6pm. Max loved the 24hr pizza we could get whenever we wanted and almost every morning we ordered room service for breakfast to start our day. The kids also loved coming back to the room every night to a new towel animal and chocolates.
We went swimming on the ship a couple of times and spent a lot of time in the arcade room. We also played a round of mini golf with the boys. The first stop was Turks and Caicos, Mason and I got off the boat and it was so hot and sunny we walked around for a bit and probably because I was pregnant and the kids were so hot we went back to the ship. kinda boring but we decided to just have fun and explore the ship.
One of the days we were not stopping anywhere they had a tea time, so I took the kids with Mason's mom and sister and it was so fun. They had little cucumber sandwiches and little cakes to go with the tea. That was probably one of my favorite things. The next stop was Jamaica. Mason's whole family decided to do the on shore adventure of hiking a waterfall. But since I was pregnant and the kids were too little we didn't go and just walked outside for a bit. We were going to try and go to a beach but all of them cost so after seeing a little bit of Jamaica we headed back to the ship to swim. The last stop was Nassau. which we never left the boat..we were boring. But it was a lot more fun with two little kids to stay on the boat and be able to do nap time and go in the pool and stuff. But by the end of the cruise we were all ready to be home. It was such a fun trip and I feel so lucky we got to experience it.