Vacation is tiring!!

Kids had Winter Break last week - so we took at trip to So Cal and went to the Great Wolf Lodge - an indoor water park.  I can't say enough about how I hate LA traffic.  Both NYC and LA traffic makes Bay Area traffic look like a walk in the park.

Some highlights from this trip:

1. Indoor water park is consistently set at 84 deg F.  NICE!!!
2. The water slides are very high... which meant we had to lug those tubs u many many flights of stairs many many times.  Kids don't get tired. Adults do.
3. The water in the water park was.... salty.  Ugh....
4. The hotel had this electronic scavenger hunt that lasted the kids 8-9 hours (in aggregate).  Great idea - whoever thought of and marketed this.  Served as great downtime.
5. There was a $9.99 Unlimited Dunkin Donuts coffee cup.  I got my money's worth - seeing how I drink coffee like water.
6. We had dinner at Hataka Ramen (again).  Still have pictures of 2012, 2014 when we went.  It's nice to go back in time and see how the kids have changed and grown.
7. The weather was too cold for the beach - kids was really looking forward to it.  But on the last day, it got warm enough where we can build some sand castles.  YEAH!!!
8. Stopped by Firestones on the way down. BOOM!! And hit up Black Bear Diner on the way up.  BOOM BOOM!!
9. Kids had a huge skin reaction to the massive chlorine so they're skin really broke out.
10. SW had a huge reaction to pollen when we pulled over by, what I think is, an Almond Tree Orchard.  Luckily we had benadryl in the car.

Next family trip.... road trip to San Diego!!!