Vacation!! Day 1

I think I can count on 1 hand the number of times we have gone on a family vacation, so we were pretty freaking excited to go to California this summer! The Raptor's decided back in the early Spring that rather than play in steamy AZ after Memorial Day that we would take a trip to Huntington Beach and play in a Southern California tournament. 

The tournament was on Saturday & Sunday and we decided to drive over on Wednesday (June 5th) and use this as a family vacation.  We had two families from the Raptor's that we went in together on a beach house with. (it wasn't really ON the beach, it was 1.5 miles away...but still awesome!!)

Welcome to California!!

 Thankfully our kids are like PRO's at travelling. We left Wednesday morning at about 9:00 (after stopping for Gas & at Target!)  and drove into Huntington at around 2:30! Yes, that's right. We made amazing time because we didn't stop once! Our kids were so chill! They played magnetic checkers & tic-tac-toe (thank you dollar spot at Target!), played their iPods, watched a couple movies, snacked & slept.

Road music, our kids, & Huntington!!!

 When we got into town we were all pretty hungry since we didn't stop for lunch so we went downtown and ate at this super cute little beach side cafe called The Sugar Shack. It was oh so yum! They serve mostly breakfast but they did have a few lunch items. I would totally recommend stopping by if your ever in town.

Then we headed over to our house and met up with our other families, the Granillo's & the Pugh's. The house was tiny but it had plenty of space for us for a little vacation. Way more room than a hotel! Plus it had a kitchen which was awesome! Between our 3 families we had that fridge more stocked than my fridge at home!

I did a little panorama shot here of our house with my phone so we could get a feel of the living areas, behind me we had 2 bathrooms & 3 bedrooms off of a hallway. The little patio off the kitchen was the best part! The weather was awesome so we would just open it up everyday and live inside and outside! For some reason there were no bugs or flying things either! It was perfect! 

That night we had a little BBQ with all the families. The kids all had so much fun being together and I am so thankful we had this opportunity! 

Top left: Ryleigh & Arianna : Top Right: Robert & Mike
Bottom: Spencer, Ethan (black shirt), Zac (with hat) & Lil' Rob playing XBOX