Everyone loves a vacation recap, right?

Mike had business meetings in California this week.

In the city of Orange, no less.
(That's where I grew up.)
So we loaded the kids in the car and headed on over.

We stayed at the Hyatt Orange County and were the only people in the whole hotel not going to Disneyland.

checking out the view from our room

Of course we did the requisite things, like:

dip our toes in the freezing Pacific

eat at Ruby's
drive around the Circle
see the house I grew up in
and spend time at Grammy and Grampy's

We had two perfectly lovely afternoons at their house.

The end.