Pictureless Vacation

Nate had meetings in S. Cali this week. He was supposed to be gone Tue-Fri. On Wed he called me to tell me that his meetings on Friday were canceled and his roommate was checking out on Thursday to go home. So he told me to hop in the car and drive on over and stay with him in a nice resort. I was a little nervous to take off with the boys by myself across the desert. Okay more truth...I had gotten into my book for book club and had been neglecting my housewife duties and I really didn't have any clean clothes and the bathrooms were disgusting. So I wasn't going to go and I was going to try to convince Nate to come home early. But late Wed nite I was watching the news and saw that it was supposed to be about 108 in Vegas and about 80 in S. Cal over the weekend. That is when I went in and started laundry. The bathrooms never got clean but such is life!



The boys and I took off and made it in 6 hours thanks to stopping a few times and California traffic. Oh well, I didn't get lost! I am very proud of that! Anyway we had a great time going to the beach, hanging out at the pool, going to Sea World, shopping and just enjoying the nice weather from our balcony(we had a nice ocean view!). It was great. The boys had a great time and even slept through the fire alarm that went off at the hotel at 3 am on Fri nite (that is a Gooch trait...a story for another time)! My favorite Matthew moment was Thur nite we ordered room service because there was no way that I was taking the kids out to a restaurant by myself(Nate had a work dinner). The next morning Matthew decided that he was hungry so he picked up the phone and said, "Hello, I need some lettuce and pizza. thank you, bye." He did this a few times over our stay. It was cute and don't worry we had the phone unplugged(that is always one of the first things we do as those buttons are just too tempting for little fingers! And I did bring the camera but I just never got it out. I think that the boys (including my husband) enjoyed not having to stop to pose for pictures! It was a nice quick escape, now it is back to the real world my laundry pile awaits!


Here are a couple of pictures I found online of our hotel. The second one is pretty much the view we had from our balcony....ahhh I wish we were still there!