Legoland Hotel

For our first adventure of 2017, we choose the Legoland Hotel. Sydney has mentioned that he wanted to stay at the Legoland Hotel; we decided to make that happen.

First, a little back-story. For two years now, we have had Legoland annual passes. It has worked out great, since Legoland is located in San Diego County, we tie visits in with trips to Nai-Nai's house. That said, for Da Boys, its always a special treat to stay in a hotel. Our plan was to maximize the hotel experience, even at the cost of neglecting Legoland resort itself. (We figured that we could goto the resort anytime)

Upon arrival, our first activity was the hotel pool. It was pretty much like any other outdoor hotel pool, except it came with floating Lego bricks!!

One thing Da Boys really enjoyed was... A TV in their bedroom!!! A definite highlight was for them to be able to be in their bunkbeds and watch TV until they were SO tired, they couldn't even keep their eyes open.

Another highlight for Da Boys was the treasure chest. They had to complete a scavenger hunt to decypher the code to the locked treasure chest. Each parent took one kid to separately do the treasure hunt. We all met back at the treasure chest so Da Boys could open it together.

The hotel also featured a castle play area. Da Boys made Lego guns (oh yay), and played shoot 'em up with other hotel patrons.

Toward the end of the trip, Da Boys rated the Legoland Hotel as "The Best Hotel Ever".

PS: They had so much fun at the hotel, we didn't even set foot in the Legoland resort...

Holiday Season 2016: Part 1

We had an action packed, adventurous holiday season. It started with a trip to San Diego during the week before Xmas. We visited Nai-Nai, and baked holiday sugar cookies.

Da Boys surprised Nai-Nai with a Christmas gift.

We had a slumber party in San Clemente with the Mirski family. All the children got along so well. Nicole taught Casey how to makes eggs for breakfast.

We returned home on Christmas eve; left Santa a note...

Apparently, Da Boys were good (enough) throughout the year, because Santa came, and even left Da Boys a return note... And ate the cookies and milk we left for him.

I guess Da Boys didnt think they were all that good all year long, because they sure were surprised on Christmas morning, once they realized the Santa visited. The big gift from Santa this year was the Nintendo 3DS!

Santee Lakes

Within the last few years, Santee Lakes was one of Ye-Ye's favorite place to go and chill. He enjoyed watching the ducks, feeding the ducks and watching Da Boys play on the playground. So, when our friends Daryl and Andy suggested a camping trip to Santee Lakes, we jumped on it. We rented all three 'floating cabins'; air conditioned cabins with kitchens and bathrooms that floated on the dock of the lake. All six boys, from all three families went. We all had an absolute blast. Daryl and Shirley showed Casey how to fish. Bright and early Saturday morning, the first words out of Casey's mouth were, 'I want to go fishing'! We took the paddle boats out on the lake, fed ducks, fished off the docks, made smores in the firepit, played in the pool and rode bikes. Nai-Nai got to join us for dinner on Saturday night.

When you are at the cabins, overlooking the lake, it is very relaxing, it feels like you are far away from civilization. Funny thing is, once you drive out the front gate, you are smack in the middle of Santee, 5 minutes from multiple grocery stores, or about ten minutes from Nai-Nai's house. Best of both worlds indeed.

Shirley Showing Da Boys How To Fish

Casey and Sydney on the Dock

Mommy and Sydney

Casey's First Fishing License

Nai-Nai and Sydney

Casey Fishing

Sydney Fishing

Da Boys Just Chillin

Dinner Time!

Stylin'

Snuggling

On the Paddleboat, Feeding Ducks

Group Pic

Christmas Travels

On Christmas Day, we attempted to chase Santa's Sleigh around the world took a road trip that began in Torrance, went to Victorville and ended in San Diego. In Victorville, we gathered the cousins and had them pose for photos before letting them tear into their gifts. Of course there is a requisite "silly face" photo.

This picture capture that moment that anticipation and amazement cross.

Its never too early for life lessons. The kids were "Making it Rain" with their Christmas money.

Then it was off to San Diego, where Da Boys watched Nai-Nai and Ye-Ye open their new calendar..

And while it might look warm, the wind was howling with quite a chill, so we bundled Ye-Ye up while we watched Da Boys play and climb trees.

SD April, 2015

We had a wonderful Wang family gathering in SD. Uncle Ed, Auntie Michelle, Chantal and Elena came to town and we all invaded Nai-Nai and Ye-Ye's house. All the cousins had a blast playing together. They played a game of cops and robbers, or good guys v. bad guys... Apparently, Casey and Sydney were bank robbers while Chantal (Police Chief) and Elena (Deputy) were the police. The Chief and Deputy chased the robbers all around the park. Periodically, they would catch the bad guys, only to have them escape. The robbers utilized their scooters and bikes as get-away vehicles.

In hot pursuit

Busted. Getting hauled to jail

Check out Mommy on the tire swing!

Auntie Michelle hooked all the kids up with a ton of Legos!! They all worked in teams to construct the Lego projects.

Chantal taught her little cousin Casey how to play guitar.

Of course, we had wonderful family dinners!