California for New Year's

Dan took a weeks vacation after Christmas and when you work from home, you don't stay home for fun. So, after our excursion to the AZ mountains, we came home for 2 hours, swapped laundry, and got back in the car headed west.

While visiting Grandma Black we enjoyed our usual park there, the canyon, warmer weather than our AZ friends, the Holiday Bowl Balloon Parade and family fun festival, NOT staying up to celebrate the New Year (both Dan and Grandma were asleep on the couch, so I gave up and went to bed), taking down Grandma's tree, and a trip to the beach.
Ryan was FREEZING at the beach in soaking wet clothes. Duh, right? If you know the Pacific, you know it is cold year round. So as he and I were having a snack I asked him to put his sweatshirt on. He said no and basically said he didn't want to admit it was winter. But what I loved was when he said, 'Mom, ya know, maybe sometime we could go surfing.' Huh, well, I sure guess that we could...
Macey loved the beach. She loved the ocean. She loved the waves and getting in the freezing water. Then when we took her away from that she loved the sand and destroying the boys castles.
I hope you will note that Macey's new wagon saw desert, snow, and beach all in one week's time.