California

There are so many wonderful pictures of our trip to CA that I just updated the slide show above to show them, please enjoy!
We flew out on the 26th to San Jose and Nana and Uncle David picked us up and we drove to Lake Tahoe. It was my first experience with chains on the tires - not one I would like to have again for sure. We had a blast in Tahoe, Alex loved playing in the snow and Carl had a good time skiing with his sisters and brothers. Nana and I took Alex up the gondola to the top of the mountain, he was a bit tentative going up, but coming back down he was looking out the windows going WHOA!
We headed back to Gilroy CA, where Carl's parents live on Monday and had a wonderful family dinner that night with everyone and more presents to open. Alex can't wait to get his talking Elmo back, as we had to ship it back here. We spent the rest of the week in Gilroy relaxing, taking walks, going to the park, seeing the biggest mistletoe ever, feeding a horse olives, watching wild turkeys, and playing with the neighborhood cat. On Friday we drove down to Monterrey and up the 17 mile drive through Pebble Beach to Carmel. It was a rainy windy day but we still enjoyed getting out and watching the birds and the sea lions in the water. On Saturday we drove up to San Fransisco and went to the market and then to Pier 59 for lunch. Alex had his first ride on a carousel and loved it. He also saw a blimp over the bay and continues say blimp every day.

We really enjoyed our trip and can't wait to go back and see more next time.