Highlights from today: (click here for the pictures)After going to bed around 2 (Little Rock time), we slept pretty well. Reagan woke up once screaming about a spider, Anderson bumped into the nightstand a few times but never woke up and Graham needed a bottle sometime in the middle of the night. Still, we were all up and at 'em before 7 and headed to breakfast shortly. The breakfast was good and the kids ate like they hadn't eaten in days-omelets, sausage, juice and cinnamon rolls. Graham even finished his cereal in no time.
We were on the road around 8:30 and drove to Disneyland to buy our tickets for Tuesday. After circling the park and accidentally driving into the parking garage, we finally found the spot to buy the tickets. Rob and Virginia quickly hopped out and while we hung out in the van and watched the monorail drive by-it was red. We found Watt's Towers next. It was an interesting stop to say the least. The Dennie's had seen it on Jeopardy and it even made it into our book. We can say that we have been there!
Next stop was supposed to be Randy's Donuts. The GPS programmer had put in Randy Donuts instead so we were 5 miles away. But Rob found the address and we headed there next-to find a Jack in the Box. It just wasn't meant for us to eat donuts today. We will do a little research and hopefully can find it the next time we are in L.A. Our day was much smoother as we headed to the Hollywood sign. We drove to our viewing spot high in the Hollywood hills (it is a great spot that we found in a book and have now been there 3 times). The kids enjoyed posing by the sign before driving back down the hill for lunch at Pink's Hot Dogs. The line was long but moved fairly quickly. Tara had the Martha Stewart dog and Robby had the Super Strech Chili Cheese Dog.
We needed a good walk after our lunch and walked around the Hollywood Walk of Fame. We passed the Kodak and the Chinese theaters. Reagan was so excited to get to put her hands in the star and was a little disappointed when she didn't get to make her handprint. Anderson saw a Spiderman and gave him a high five-we didn't take a picture since we would have to pay! After our walk, we needed some ice cream so we stopped at the Cold Stone Creamery. On the way back to the parking deck, Reagan and Anderson got to ride the escalator a few times. And this is what they said was their favorite part of the day!
We had fought traffic all day but there seemed to be alot on our way to Griffith Park. Our plan was to stop at the pony rides and railroad part but the lines looked crazy so we just headed straight to the carousel. It was a good stop and the kids loved the fast carousel. Virginia was holding Graham and he just jumped and jumped while listening to the music. After the carousel we then drove awhile to get to Huntington Beach. They were having their kite festival. We arrived at sunset and there were only a few kites left in the sky. We walked along the beach and chased the water. It had been hot earlier in the day but now was quite cool.
We needed another nutritious supper and decided to stop at In and Out Burger before calling it a night. The hamburgers there were great so our tummy were full as we headed to the hotel. Graham got a bath in our room and Reagan and Anderson took a bath in Virginia's room. After they played for awhile, we turned off the lights and gave everyone their milk. No one is asleep yet-but hopefully we will sleep as well as we did last night.
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