Trip to Newport Beach, CA

Gavin's sister, Becky, invited us to come spend a few days with her family in Newport Beach, CA. It was so much fun. Gavin took a whole week off and we drove to CA. Andrielle was SO GOOD in the car. Mostly she just slept. We took it easy, and took two days driving there. We stopped in this town, Barstow, on our way and stayed in this little Motel 6 and then continued on our way the next morning. While in California, we spent one day at Sea World. Here are a few pics of that...


Here's our family in front of the sharks


We got to see the Shamu show. It was really cool!



Here we are in front of the Bat Rays (sp??)


Here's Gav with Andrielle in front of the bat rays, again. Gavin would hold her on his shoulders and she would hold on to his ears, it was so funny!



Here's Gav and Andrielle in front of these huge sea turtles

Gav with the star fish.

Look at this massive fish! It was so creepy, lol!

Then we spent one day at Laguna Beach. Andrielle hated it! I think she was scared of the loud waves crashing.

Gavin buried her up to her waste in the sand and she kept eating the sand.

Gav and Andrielle...

Our family in front of the ocean. (Doesn't Andrielle look thrilled!)

Ok, then on the way back we stopped in Las Vegas, NV. We stayed in the nicest hotel of my life! Take a look at these...

Andrielle on our bed

Here's Gavin in front of the flat screen TV. See the bottles and little boxes of treats? They were on weighted sensors. If we moved anything for more than 45 seconds, we got charged!

This was the view out of our window. That's the pool(s). We went swimming and had a pool all to ourselves. All of the pools had different temperatures. They went from really cold to hot tub temps. It was awesome!

Ok...So a few things I did for the first time ever while on our vacation:

1: Visited Newport Beach & Irvine cities

2: Went to Sea World, saw Shamu

3: Ate sushi (Sashimi!!)
4: Visited Laguna Beach & Long Beach

5: Ate at new (to me) restaurants (Wild Fish, The Melting Pot, Ruby's Diner, Cheesecake Factory, Panera Bread, & BJ's)

6: Stayed at the nicest hotel of my life

7: Walked the strip in Las Vegas