Our room has a giant bath - Braeden made good use of it the other day:
We had dinner at the Steelhead brewpub in Irvine on Monday:
Yesterday on the beach:
Now for the videos:
Ian R. Stewart Family Blog
Friday 19 August 2011
Surfing USA
From http://ianrstewart.blogspot.com/
Our room has a giant bath - Braeden made good use of it the other day:
We had dinner at the Steelhead brewpub in Irvine on Monday:
Yesterday on the beach:
Now for the videos:
Our room has a giant bath - Braeden made good use of it the other day:
We had dinner at the Steelhead brewpub in Irvine on Monday:
Yesterday on the beach:
Now for the videos:
From Grants Pass to Newport Coast
From http://ianrstewart.blogspot.com/
Well, it's been a few days since I've managed to find the time to update my blog. Things are a bit more hectic down here in Southern California - although the resort is as lovely as we all remember it.
Of course, prior to that, Jo and I had spent all day Saturday in Medford after the Lesinas dropped us off at our hotel. We shopped a bit, drank a bit, ate a bit, walked a fair deal and managed a quick swim in the pool. Lunch was again at our favourite pizza pub, Kaleidoscope and we sat in the outdoors area, with the misters working full blast to keep us all cool - you can see them in this photo:
Our flight to LA was early Sunday morning, but it was just a short stroll from our hotel to the terminal building and everything went well and we got to LAX in good time. We tried to find Lost/Found Property - we call it the former, the Americans the latter - and I suspect their terminology is technically more correct - but failed. Jo had managed to leave her coat in the airport terminal when we were there 2 weeks ago. This is the replacement coat for the one she did the identical thing with in Australia earlier this year! It seems this coat is fated to be lost forever.
Our hire car is a Sebring convertible - and it has a wonderful action to get the hood down - just press a button and it all happens - magical! We drove down the Pacific Coast Highway with the top down and the wind blowing our hair - well, Jo's anyway! We arrived at our resort early and the Lesinas pulled up an hour or so later, having broken the back of the journey on Saturday.
On Monday morning, Scott, Cade and I went to have 9 holes of golf at the lovely little course at Aliso Creek - it's cut in a canyon and there's trouble all round - including rattlesnakes! Cade hit a career best drive off the first tee - much better than Scott and I.
Monday afternoon was down to the beach - and everyone got in to the ocean. Cade and Braeden had skim boards, but they seemed to bore of them fairly quickly. Here's the Lesinas:
A lovely day - and Tuesday was better, but it was an early-ish start for the short drive to the original Disneyland resort. There are 2 theme parks there - Magic Kingdom and California Adventure - we did them both in a mammoth day. Cade and Braeden enjoyed the zip slide in the latter, as evidenced by this short video:
Naturally, Wednesday was a quieter day, but it was back to golf and beach again on Thursday - more photos and videos to follow.
Well, it's been a few days since I've managed to find the time to update my blog. Things are a bit more hectic down here in Southern California - although the resort is as lovely as we all remember it.
Of course, prior to that, Jo and I had spent all day Saturday in Medford after the Lesinas dropped us off at our hotel. We shopped a bit, drank a bit, ate a bit, walked a fair deal and managed a quick swim in the pool. Lunch was again at our favourite pizza pub, Kaleidoscope and we sat in the outdoors area, with the misters working full blast to keep us all cool - you can see them in this photo:
Our flight to LA was early Sunday morning, but it was just a short stroll from our hotel to the terminal building and everything went well and we got to LAX in good time. We tried to find Lost/Found Property - we call it the former, the Americans the latter - and I suspect their terminology is technically more correct - but failed. Jo had managed to leave her coat in the airport terminal when we were there 2 weeks ago. This is the replacement coat for the one she did the identical thing with in Australia earlier this year! It seems this coat is fated to be lost forever.
Our hire car is a Sebring convertible - and it has a wonderful action to get the hood down - just press a button and it all happens - magical! We drove down the Pacific Coast Highway with the top down and the wind blowing our hair - well, Jo's anyway! We arrived at our resort early and the Lesinas pulled up an hour or so later, having broken the back of the journey on Saturday.
On Monday morning, Scott, Cade and I went to have 9 holes of golf at the lovely little course at Aliso Creek - it's cut in a canyon and there's trouble all round - including rattlesnakes! Cade hit a career best drive off the first tee - much better than Scott and I.
Monday afternoon was down to the beach - and everyone got in to the ocean. Cade and Braeden had skim boards, but they seemed to bore of them fairly quickly. Here's the Lesinas:
A lovely day - and Tuesday was better, but it was an early-ish start for the short drive to the original Disneyland resort. There are 2 theme parks there - Magic Kingdom and California Adventure - we did them both in a mammoth day. Cade and Braeden enjoyed the zip slide in the latter, as evidenced by this short video:
Naturally, Wednesday was a quieter day, but it was back to golf and beach again on Thursday - more photos and videos to follow.
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