California Vacation Days 5-9

Tuesday, December 30th is when people started to get sick and drop like flies.  We had a fun morning with David and Kristene though.  There's this place called LOL Kids Club and it's this fun indoor play place.  There's a huge ball pit, slides, a maze to climb through, places to shoot balls at each other and a smaller baby play area.  It's half off on Tuesdays and one adult is free, so it was definitely a good day to go.  We stayed for about two hours, but Kylie didn't have a nap beforehand so she wouldn't have lasted much longer anyway.

The ball pit was Kylie's favorite part.

Even Andrew got in on the fun.

We were planning on going to Costco (to shop for the New Year's Eve party) and then to Riverside, but we heard that everyone there was sick.  Brita's kids were sick from the beginning and then it just got passed around.  Dean, then Becky, then Nadine (who got it the worst out of everyone) got sick.  So, we decided to cancel the party (which I was a little bummed about because I had some fun things planned) and stay away from them until they're feeling better.  After the kids club, we had plans to go eat at Panda Inn which is the original Panda Express restaurant, but Scott had to take Andrew to Riverside anyway for a rehab appointment.  On the drive home, they ran into some heavy traffic and it started to snow!  I couldn't believe the weather while we were there.  We were hoping to get away from the cold and snow in Utah.  It turned out to be like 70-80 degrees the next week.  Seriously?! Anyway, Scott got back and we watched Guardians of the Galaxy.

Even though our big party plans fell through for new years eve, it turned out to be an okay night.  Kristene got sick the night before so she wasn't feeling well at all that day.  Scott, Andrew, Kylie and I headed down to Riverside to spend the day there.  On the way to the house we stopped and got some Rite-Aid ice cream.  Scott used to get their Thrifty's ice cream all the time when he lived there and has to make a stop each time we go to California.  He always gets the rainbow sherbert in a cone and Kylie loved participating in his tradition.  Then we got some doughnut holes from a doughnut shop next door and they were delicious!  Scott and I are sad that we don't have a real doughnut shop close to our house in West Jordan.  We spent the day hanging out, playing games and shopping for food for that night.  We had a huge food menu planned, but since everyone got sick we had to scale it back quite a bit.  We ended up having fried ravioli, 7-layer dip, garlic bread and chili (which Dean made).  For dessert, we used the chocolate fountain we got from the gift exchange.  We dipped marshmallows, strawberries and bananas.  We played a few games as well.  The first one we did was playing songs with over a million hits on YouTube and trying to guess the song or artist.  Then we played a question and answer game where you write down a what-if question and answer another one.  Then you go around the circle reading your question with the person next to you answering it with the answer to their question.  It turned out to have some funny results.  After that we played a round of charades and then played Bang! until midnight.  Poor Scott started really not feeling well after dinner so the midnight celebration wasn't that exciting.  Since it was late, Kylie was asleep and Scott was not feeling well, we stayed the night.  I had a hard time sleeping and didn't really sleep until about 3am.  I was able to get a little more rest in the morning so that was nice.  Even though our party didn't exactly work out, we still had a good time so that was nice.

Thursday January 1st, we were able to go see the movie Into the Woods.  I have never seen the play before so I didn't know a lot about the plot and not sure what to expect.  The stories were definitely more based off the Grimm fairytale version.  There were some good scenes and the music was okay, but overall it wasn't a favorite.  After the movie, we played a few more games and then headed back to David and Kristene's.

It was Friday the 2nd and we were leaving on Sunday, the 4th.  I thought I was going to get away without getting sick, but alas I ended up getting sick on Friday.  Scott was still feeling sick and Kylie even threw up twice during the night.  We had plans to see the Rose Parade floats, but canceled because no one was really feeling well.  Kristene was feeling better and was still going to see the floats.  I wasn't feeling too sick at this point and Kylie was happy so we decided to join them.  I started feeling more nauseous on the drive down and just wanted to throw up the whole time at the floats.  We met up with Brianna, Kyle and Kyle's parents and they took care of Kylie until we parted ways.  I didn't want to deal with the hassle of the stroller so I carried Kylie, but my stomach got so sensitive that I couldn't carry her anymore.  There were a few times that she wanted me to hold her and when I couldn't, she started to whimper and cry.  It was the saddest thing ever!  I made it home without throwing up and went straight to sleep.  I threw up twice that day and that was the extent of my sickness.

Kyle put Kylie to sleep within 3 minutes of holding her. He's a sleep whisperer.

Saturday the 3rd was a busier day.  Luckily we were all feeling better because we had plans to hang out with our friends Heather and Skylar.  We packed all of our stuff as we were going to stay in Riverside that night since we were taking Becky back to Vegas the next day.  We left David and Kristene's around 11 and headed to an alumni soccer game at Scott's old high school.  He didn't bring his soccer stuff, but was able to borrow a pair of cleats and play.  Scott saw one of his friends, Andrew Kiser, and he had a good time playing soccer.  Bonus is that the old alumni team (4 years +) won against the newer alumni team (only the past 2 or 3 years)!

I stole this picture off someone's Facebook since the one I took was from far away.

After soccer, we headed down to Irvine to hang out with Heather and Skylar.  They were kind enough to make us lunch and we just sat and talked the whole time.  We were there for 2 hours and weren't even done talking to them!  It's nice that we are still good friends with them and are so glad that we had time to see them and have them meet Kylie.  We drove back to Riverside for dinner and played games until it was time for bed.  Scott and I stayed out in their trailer and I guess the heat wasn't working and it was freezing!  We were able to stay warm though and sleep through the night.  We left the next morning at about 9:30am.

Even though this was not the ideal vacation, it still had some good moments and we only went out because of the sealing of Abrie to David and Kristene.  Since we were able to witness that, that's all that matters.  Anything else we did was just bonus.  Although I do hope that the next time we go to California, no one gets sick. :)