Thank you Yennifer!!
Onwards to California. First, I would like to apologize for the lengthy post. Well, I'm assuming it's going to be lengthy. I really want to be able to remember every detail of this trip. It was just absolutely fantastic. I don't know about you, but for me, whenever I go on vacation by the end of it I'm usually ready to go home. This was one of the first trips that I was truly sad about leaving. The only silver lining was getting to see Madison because I truly truly missed her that my heart ached whenever I even thought about her.
Lets get it! Friday night, Jennifer, Kyle and my parents arrived. Trey grilled some yummy burgers on the Green Egg and we all drank some beer, wine and talked. The next morning, I wouldn't put Madison down and just balled as she drove away. Lauren and Will arrived at our house and Lauren asked me to look at her phone and this is what I saw!!!
Lauren's pregnant!!! YAY!! We had a DD! haha
We all squeezed into Trey's Tahoe with everyone luggage inside. I wish I had taken a picture. Jennifer sat on Lauren's carry-on in the middle row and I was in the back smushed in-between a ton of luggage. Anyway, we made it to the Park It Here lot and got picked up by a fun guy. Kyle kept talking about his throw-away socks because he didn't want to get AIDs from walking barefoot in the airport. The driver ended up giving us some Park It Here bacteria killer. It was hilarious!
On the bus on our way to the airport. What a fun group!
Arrive to the airport. Lauren and Will were magicians and only packed ONE piece of luggage for the both of them!! However, it weighed a little over 50 and things had to be moved around but they got it below the 50. Security was always fun for Lauren. Since she's pregnant, she didn't want to go through the x-ray thingy and instead went to at least second base with the TSA people. The only issue was that it took them a long time to frisk her but she finally was freed. We went straight to the bar and had some drinks.
At the bar the boys got beers and Yennifer got a vodka tonic that looked so yummy...so I ordered one too. Well, I got too excited and when I high-fived Jennifer (yes, we high-five) I knocked my drink and it spilled. I was so sad. Kyle had earlier commented that he was going to buy my drink but I ended up paying for the drink (before the spill) and the drink was $13!!! Anyway, I was pouting and the one-tooth bartender made me another drink (never asked, so I assumed she was being nice). Well, the husky thing ended up putting it on Kyle's tab!! I was so mad! I thought it extremely rude!
Enjoying my not-so-free 2nd vodka tonic.
The flight to Houston was AWFUL! The plane was extremely small and had terrible turbulence. I really thought I was going to puke. I just ended up going to sleep. Arrived to Houston and ate some lunch, the boys had more drinks and we got on the flight to San Francisco. This flight was much better. Nice big plane with t.v.'s on the back of the chair. For $6 we got to watch DirectTv. Lauren and I enjoyed The Lucky One (Zac Efron...hello!) and Trey and Kyle watched The Avengers and acted like little children. They had headphones and didn't realize how loud they were. People were staring!! At least they had fun.
We arrive to chilly San Fran and go get our rental cars: A small nissan and a minivan. The guys drove the minivan and the girls in the nissan. We decided to drive a little bit before stopping for dinner. We got to drive through the good old Golden Gate Bridge!
Our Driver
We made it to San Rafael and went to this pizza place called Orgasmica Pizza. I wish I could say the pizza was Orgasmica...but it wasn't. However, we walked in and there wasn't much room for a table of 6, so they brought us to the "back." It was pretty much the kiddy party room!! It was unacceptable. So Lauren charged back to the front and claimed a table that another group was wanting but Lauren got to the host and manager first and we were given the table. The other people gave us the stank eye though. Oh well...yay for Lauren!! We drove the rest of the way and didn't get home until midnight! We were all exhausted.
Of course all the girls wake up first and we look at the window and this is our view!!
Beautiful! We spotted some Bambi's one morning.
Lauren was family that live in the area and her cousin's wife has a family bakery that she recommended for breakfast (Costeaux). It was AMAZING!! I had the french toast and it was to die for!
We had such a girl's day planned out and it was AMAZING! Went to the spa at Hotel Healdsburg. I had an amazing massage and facial. Afterwards, we lounged by the hotel pool, drank a bloody Mary and relaxed while tanning.
Afterwards, Yennifer and I got pedicures while Lauren went grocery shopping. While getting our pedicures done (we went to just an Asian place) the guy doing my toes handed us FREE Heinken's when we told him we were on vacation. It was nice. After we did that, we finally got back to the house and the boys were throwing the "bee" around. They even got it stuck on the roof...but no worries, they found a way to get it off.
Enjoying watching the boys throw the frisbee around.
Kyle also decided to demonstrate how the girls were stomping around that morning. Kyle described his room as Mom's Attic. It had a curtain instead of a door and it was located right next to the kitchen. He also said that he would see "the people under the stairs." Here's the video:
That night all of us (except Jennifer-she was tired from her hard day) went to dinner at the Barn Diva. Absolutely delicious. Look up the menu! Thanks Kyle - he picked up that tab.
Anway...that's all for tonight. Will continue tomorrow (maybe). Will end with some cute pics and videos of Madison. The pics are of Madison enjoying one of my b'day cupcakes. She went to town. When I pulled out the camera aka phone, she got interest for some reason and kept getting really close to the lens.
The video is of her finishing the cupcake and her trying to touch the phone. The last video is when she had finished the cupcake but there was still icing left on the plate.
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