Southern California Trip

To start the year off with a bang, the whole Simmons clan trekked down to southern California for a week of fun and excitement. We stayed in a wonderful condo in Newport Coast.
On the first day the whole gang loaded up in our 12 passenger van and headed for San Diego to visit the zoo. What a beautiful place.

Our favorites were the Panda Bear, Monkeys and Hippos.

Tuesday took us to Disneyland's California Adventure.

Hannah loved the rides but was a little afraid of the characters.

Brian gets a bit motion sick on rides so I went on the big ones with Chris and Grandpa Doug.

Even Grandma Cindy enjoyed some rides.

Our next day trip was to Lego Land. It was really cool to see all the different things made entirely out of Legos.

Disneyland was the hightlight of our trip.

We raced around and hit as many rides as we could. Hannah's favorites were the Tikki Room and the Jungle Cruise. She got really scared on Pirates of the Caribbean especially since she and I sat in the very front and got a little bit wet.

The parade and fireworks were amazing (it's my favorite part). We stayed till the park closed and finally went home with a very tired little girl.