What an amazing, fun time we had in California! We took my family and some of our best friends came along with us in our 15 passenger van. We stayed in the Knott's Berry Farm hotel with connecting rooms for four days.
The first day we go there we wanted to check out the Santa Monica Beach. That is definitely a fun beach if you are okay with the crowds. It wasn't too bad being it was such a popular beach. Maybe the summer would be worse? On the pier there are so many options of fun. You pick from tons of restaurants, my husband's fave was Bubba Gump Shrimp. There are rides. Being that the next day we were gonna hit up Knott's Berry Farm, we decided to just go on the ferris wheel and check out the sun setting on the ocean. Was gorgeous!!! That is definitely a very FUN beach!
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| Kyle and Ryan |
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| Kyle (11) |
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| Chaz (14) |
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| Caleb (5) |
We had saved up and prepaid for almost all our vacation before we got there. The hotel and the tickets to Knott's Berry Farm included. Another option we had when purchasing tickets was add meal bands and souvenir cups. I was a tad worried buying the meal bands in advance. What if it wasn't worth it? Meal bands are $34 each and give you access to 6 restaurants in the amusement park. Each ones has meals you can pick from AND you can eat every hour and a half! One meal at Knott's Berry Farm can be anywhere from $10-15 so that band is definitely worth it. In fact, we only got it for the kids that were gonna run around the park riding rides without us. The ones that were with us, we only got the band for every other kid. The meals were so big it was easy to share. Best money spent for food ever. The cups were worth it as well as you get free refills allllll day for that one day. We refilled a lot and they even make it to where you can hang the cups from a stroller. I didn't need to even use the cup holders. Being I was 35 weeks pregnant with baby Jaxon, I could ride any of the rides. The older kids ran everywhere while Charles and I stayed in the Snoopy area with the younger ones. I had no idea they would make it so fun and have so many options of neat things to ride. Even our 2 year old Juliet was able to do a lot! Yep, my suspicions are confirmed. My wild 2 year old isn't afraid of anything and would ride anything that was allowed for her. She laughed her head off on every ride. We waited till we could get discounts so it was $305 for my family of 9 for the day. Way cheaper than our last visit to Disneyland and faster, shorter lines.
Our third day we went to Seal Beach. It was so neat seeing the military ships way off in the distance. That's partly why I wanted to go. I think every time we go to a beach, we like to try a different one. This was new! The kids were able to see seals, starfish, and other fun sea stuff. The day was warm and this time we weren't freezing with sweaters! I was so worried we'd get a foggy or rainy day. It's hard to plan in advance because you never know how the weather is gonna be. It was great! It was an amazing day and we didn't plan anything else as we just wanted it to be all about our time together at the beach. Sigh. It was great!!!
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Ryan (13) holding dead stingray
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1 comment:
What a great vacation! I'm so glad you were able to get a big ol' van and just GO.
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