Here are my kids all dressed up! They did have their shirts tucked in and hair in place, but it only took a few minutes for that to change, as you can see. This was taken right after the wedding which was beautiful!
This is B with her signature smile!
The wedding and reception went very well and the happy couple were off to Hawaii! The rest of us Pattersons went on our ways to continue our trip around California. We planned to spend the rest of our time in the LA area. We wanted to spend the big bucks and visit Disneyland, but with all the rain we decided not to do that. We had already purchased tickets to visit Knott's Berry Farm. Have you ever heard of this place? I never have! It's such a fun place to go. It's a Peanut's themed amusement park. The day started with very light rain, but it ended with LOTS of rain.
We did all the train rides, of course. That kept us sort of dry. A and I did a roller coaster together called the Sierra Sidewinder. She was just tall enough to ride. With the bar securely fastened, I also had my arm over her the entire ride just incase she happened to fly off during the minute-long ride. We survived and when I asked her what she thought of the experience, she sorta shrugged her shoulders and said it was ok. She later said it was a bit more scary than she thought.
Even though the lines weren't terribly long, we were terribly wet. We decided to take refuge in a Peanut's Christmas ice skating show. I wasn't expecting much, but it was a great show. We spent a good amount of time at the park doing some small rides and hanging out in the arcade. We ended the day by running across the park, through the rain, splashing through all the puddles to our car. It's not every day that you get to let your kids play in rain, jump through all the puddles and get wet. It was fun! Thank God that the weather was warm enough to enjoy the rain that way.
We spent some time at Griffith Park's Travel Town Railroad Museum the next day.
Doesn't the train look like it's smiling?
We couldn't get into all the trains, unfortunately.
Impressive engine!
These trains are so big.
I find it funny how P loves trains so much, but once he hears one of them "toot" he starts crying because they are so loud!
We also visited the Science Museum, hit a local LA mall, visited some touristy roads and some old family haunts. Although we didn't go to Disneyland, we did visit the Downtown Disney area which was very nice too. We let the kids choose one thing to buy from there. I chose a fruit drink from Jamba Juice - heard of it in magazines and movies. I sort of think of it as a west coast thing (have none here in the DC area). Ok, been there and done that!
All through this trip was continuous rain. Wait, did I say that already? Oh, and lots of traffic! We had a great time nonetheless and so did the kids. My only regret is that I didn't take enough pictures. Oh, and a raincoat.
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