April 24th, 2009
The shuttle picked me up at the house and took me all the way to Seattle. Everything was on time the shuttle, the ferry, the airplane, my trip to California has begun. I met up with Ashley at LAX. Kyle and Julie picked us up and we made it to Riverside in rush hour traffic in 1 hr. 20 minutes. What a perfect day. We went out to dinner that evening with Maggie, Sergio, Michael and Melissa. The place was TGI Fridays and the food was great. We laughed a lot and had so much fun. How special it was to share this moment with so many wonderful and loved people. Thank you Kyle for such a perfect evening. The next morning bright and early Julie drives us into Anaheim for our day to Disneyland. Kyle's cousin Kevin signed us in to both parks as his guests. We had the best day ever at Disneyland. The weather was warm and the sun was shining. Disneyland was as clean and beautiful as ever. We watched part of the parade which Kevin was in as Gepeto. Our day started on rides in Disneyland and then we went to California Adventure. This was Ashley's 1st time to California Adventure and she loved it. It was such a wonderful time to spend with Julie and Ashley. We were 3 generations having fun together and that we did. We laughed so much and had a great time. I wish you could have been there to see Julie and Ashley on Tower of Terror it was the best. I hurt I laughed so much at their reaciton. Julie says she will NEVER go on that again. Early that evening we left the park and met John and Tracy at Tony Romma's for a delicious birthday dinner. It had been awhile since I had seen them both so that was a nice way to celebrate my birhtday with so much of my family around me. Sunday Julie and I managed to get in some shopping. We started off at Kohl's with the gift card I received from Kyle and Julie for my birthday. Ashley went to spend the day with her mom, but when she returned she gave me my birthday surprise and what a surprise it was a shopping spree at Micheal's. Thank you Ashley, Brian, Tina, Jacob and Brook. Monday came all to soon and off we were to take Ashley to the airport. I was sorry to see her go as I was so enjoying being with her. May I say at this time thank you to Julie for all the driving she did during this visit. Now for some pictures.