The Braegger Family Blog: Beginning of December 2014

On December 3rd Faith had a benefit choir concert at Clearfield High. My mom and dad came, as well as Tammy and Lana. Eric bought two tickets to support the choir, and as a bonus didn't have to come ;)

On the 4th I sent out on a venture with my friends! I flew standby with Brandi and Kim to Long Beach airport. Darcy and Jenn had flown in the day before with Darcy's mom. They were a bit late picking us up from the airport, and we got extra silly texting them rude things about not being there for us.

We stopped by Panera Bread for a delicious lunch of soup, sandwiches and/or salads.

Our condo in Oceanside was in a gorgeous complex and had this amazing view of the beach from the back balcony!

We jumped in the rental car to check out the town and get some groceries. Somehow, we drove for hours and stopped by two organic food markets before we got to a regular grocery store!

We ate dinner at a little Mexican restaurant in a strip mall. We prepared ourselves for a long drive back, and were shocked to find that we were only a few minutes away from our condo. We must have been going in circles!

We ended up getting some non-alcoholic Chardonnay from Trader Joes, so while we had an exciting evening of playing Phase 10, we got our drink on!

Who says you need real booze to have fun and get silly?

We had not planned in advance what activity we would do the next day. We discovered around midnight that night that both Kenn & Kim were both secretly hoping to go to Disneyland! I was the lone holdout (due to cost) so it was decided that we were Disney bound.

On the 5th we woke up bright and early to drive back up north. It was nearly $100 for a one day, one park pass, so we made the most of it!!

Crazy faces for the coaster cams!

We thought we were so funny when we planked in front of the castle and Facebooked the photo to share with the rest of our Riot class. The other park attendees looked like they thought it more crazy than funny!

I had a beef skewer from Adventureland (because I'm super cheap and had already far exceeded my budget), but the rest of the group had Monte Cristo sandwiches and garlic pomme frites. Some of them had never tried the Monte Cristo before!

Fun on the Jungle Cruise.

A highlight was dancing like loonies in the Tiki Room! Also, when we did the single rider line at the Indiana Jones ride, we apologized to a gentleman for acting like lunatics and explained we were giddy from being away from our kids for a much needed break. He said, "That's okay. I thought you had just spent the day drinking too much at California Adventure."

We got to enjoy the "snow" after the fireworks.

We certainly did get our money's worth. We had a blast and stayed so late that we closed that park down!

The morning of the 6th, we all piled in the King sized bed upstairs to hang out for a bit. When the kids saw this pic, they asked, why didn't you get a place with more than one bed?!"

Actually, just Jenn and Darcy slept upstairs in this bed. The downstairs bedroom had two queen beds, Brandi and I shared one and Kim had the other. The only thing we didn't like was splitting our group between two floors.

That day I made omelets for breakfast and then we walked out to the beach and explored.

Darcy and I walked the long pier barefoot.

That night was the reason for our trip (supposedly, anyway), the Electric Run at the DelMar Fairgrounds.

Tons of people commented on our awesome shirts. We'd ordered them online, they were sound activated and lit up like music equalizer bars.

I thought we did great! It was only 5K and we didn't run the entire way, but we passed tons of people who were walking or slow jogging. The altitude made my lungs feel like I could run all day!