Road Trip Part I

We got home from today from a little weekend away. Technically, you may notice that Sunday night-Wednesday morning isn't what most people consider a weekend, but seeing as Gunnar works on most people's weekends, we have to take our weekends on the non peek days. So after church and a meeting on Sunday Gunnar, Grace and I headed up north. Coincidentally, my brother Michael and his darling wife and daughter were on their way back to San Diego from speninding some time in Fresno. We decided to play it by ear, and keep in touch via cell phone, to see if we could meet up for dinner.

Well, it couldn't have worked out any better. We met up in beautiful Castaic, CA. They got there maybe 2-3 min after we did. Even more perfect, was that it was 5:30, so the perfect time for dinner. Elena and Grace were both ready for a break from their car seats. We ate at Pizza Factory, mosty becuase their slogan is "We toss 'em, Their awesome!" and who can resist that?

The basketball playoff game was on, in HD. Pretty much the perfect storm. Oh, and the pizza was good!

As any frequent blog reader knows, Grace and her cousin Elena absolutly adore each other. It is the cutest thing. They were so excited to have dinner together. Grace enjoyed helping hand Elena cheerios and modeling how to eat them.





As I mentioned, there was a huge flat screen hung right above our table with the playoff game. Elena was mezmorized, aparently, she is a big basketball fan.
Uncle Mike asked Grace to watch the game with him and Elena. The progression cracks me up.
She looks up, but then thinks, wait, am I doing this right?
How does he do that with his mouth? That is trickier than it looks.
Finally, she get's it down, but they are done watching already. Oh well.
Grace loves to hold Elena, and as time goes by it is looking more and more akward as the size diffrence between them get's smaller and smaller.
This was just the start of our fun days on the road, another example that the fun really is in the journey.