Wore Out

After a lot of action the last three weeks, Tracy and I are pretty wore out. John and Katie arrived Thursday night as our second straight weekend visitors. Thanks for visiting John and Katie, we had a great time!

Friday we hit up Disneyland for Tracy's birthday. Tracy got free admission for her birthday and we got two-for-one tickets now that we are SoCal residents. That means we get to hit up the Adventure Park for free within the next month! Two theme parks for $69 for two people ... not a bad deal.

We had a fun time celebrating Tracy's b-day at Disneyland. It just so happened that John and I wore similar outfits so it was an ongoing joke all day (see photo slideshow below). After hitting up Space Mountain in the morning, we made our way through the park and hit up all the major rides. Except for Mr. Toad. John was bummed when the ride shut down after waiting 20 minutes in line. I don't think he missed much from the Toad though! We ended our day on Space Mountain again. After giving Tracy a hard time for all her giggling early in the day, the tables were turned. I don't know what it was, but I couldn't stop laughing on that last ride. It was a blast. Tracy in turn gave me a hard time! Disney was actually a pretty cool time. It definitely surpassed my expectations.

On Saturday, we hit up some wine tasting again. John and Katie had dog sitter drama and Tracy was still kind of celebrating her birthday, so everybody was anxious to take the edge off with some wine. We hit up the largest winery here South Coast before moving on to the smaller Robert Renzoni winery and Leonesse Cellars. Unfortunately, Tracy's camera took it's second significant cement drop in 8 days and is no longer in operation. Oh well, the price we pay to "taste" some wine.

After wine tasting we hit up Old Town Temecula for some of the most bland mexican food I've ever had. Dirt has more flavor than the refried beans at The Bank restaurant. And the dirt in the desert has more moisture than the carne asada. I thought it was hard to screw up mexican food. Think again. This place seriously sucked. The margarita's were strong, but not strong enough for us to overlook the terrible food. In all honesty, I could probably crap out a better tasting dinner than The Bank could make and sell for $10.

Thankfully, we didn't let the poor food, broken camera or sprained ankle crazy lady dog sitter drama ruin our day. We enjoyed a jacuzzi and a few more cold beers and the day still felt like a relaxing vacation day.

On Sunday we took the Ortega over to Huntington Beach. We hit up the candy store on the way, a must-stop Dan and Miranda introduced us to. Then, we ate mexican food that didn't suck at Wahoo's. I'm guessing Wahoo's actually tastes the food it cooks, opposed to The Bank. Wahoo's is highly recommended, the food was excellent. After some shopping and hitting up the pier, we dropped off John and Katie at John Wayne airport so they could pick up their rental for the remainder of their vacation in San Diego.

Thanks again for visiting. We love seeing friends and family making the trip to spend time with us.

Recent Fun in the Sun

We've had several visitors here over the last two weeks. Check out a little slideshow of some of the action.