CA Family Reunion and Disneyland 2011

This year for the Jacobson/Roskelley family reunion, our parents invited us out to a timeshare on the beach in San Luis Obispo California. And, since we were going to CA anyway, we decided to add on a trip to Disneyland. We got a great travel package with Costco and I would definitely do it again!

Jake with his Cousins: Gabe and Noah in Solvang where we stopped to shop and eat lunch. Laura and Brian stayed there, but Cam and I stayed the night in Loma Linda. The hotel we stayed in was cheap but clean! A perfect combo!

After arriving in San Luis, we spent a full day at the beach.

This is what Josh, Cassi and a few other family members did to pass their time.

Before we took off from San Luis Obispo, we took a series of family photos which included this little gem. :)

Cam and I thought that taking the "scenic" route down to Anaheim would be fun, so we hopped onto what we thought was the PCH, and maybe it was, but it was torture. When we could see the ocean, we drove at 15 mph and Jake screamed out in boredom. I had to pee and there were absolutely NO services. Eventually Jake fell asleep and was asleep for maybe an hour when he woke up and ... Puked. ugh. It was awful. There was literally no where to stop. I cared for Jake the best I could until Cam pulled off in a private country club parking lot so that we could clean Jake up a bit. Not two seconds into our endeavor - a golf cart-driving security guard came to check on us. Luckily, he let us stay for a minute. Too bad he didn't let me pee... Anyway, I share this on my blog for all to see so that maybe I will remember that in the future the PCH on a weekend with construction is NOT the way to go. :) Whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger, right?

All car-sicknesses subsided, we had an AWESOME trip to the Happiest Place on Earth.

Jake loved Autopia.

We ate Dole Whips... twice, among other amazing foods including our character dining at Goofy's Kitchen. I highly recommend character dining. Seriously. It was the highlight of this trip.

We enjoyed our three days in Disneyland. We were traveling with newborn baby Ella, so we took our time. We rode all the main rides at least once. Cameron worked on his squashed penny collection and I pin traded. Jake was mesmerized by the action. He loved the characters and took pictures with several of them. He learned all of the main character's names and yelled them out every time he saw one displayed somewhere... which was all the time. It was fun to take a two year old and we are excited to make it back soon!