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Day #4 in SoCal - Rose Bowl Parade + Game

We were lucky to score some great seats for the Rose Bowl parade from our friend Ray, who works at Bank of America in Pasadena on Colorado Blvd. (front row seats from his office). From there, Jonathan and Todd went on to the Rose Bowl game. Was a great outcome for John (and the Big Ten Conference).

Day #3 in SoCal - Visiting Friends & Family in Camarillo

Was great to see Cousin BJ, Savannah and Connor during our stop back in Camarillo.

Day #2 in SoCal - Disney Land

Day #2 in SoCal was a trip to DisneyLand or as Kathy calls it 'Where's the Magic?'. Despite an extremely busy day (with 90+ min waiting lines), we had a blast.

Small World

Jungle Cruise

Kathy really loved Space Mountain

And While We Were in SoCal

Winston was checking out Uncle Dennis's cattle farm. Riding tractors, petting kittens and bottle calves.

Trip to Sunny SoCal

A few days after Christmas, we took off for sunny SoCal to visit our friends Jonathan and Christina Soffin, while Winston enjoyed a week vacation with Grandpa & Grandma Sayre. Adele got a special, custom made 'Delta Bling Ring' from one of the flight attendants. Apparently she custom makes them and only gives them out on special occasions. After our flight, first stop, Paradise Cove!!! Our favorite place in the whole wide world...

(Belated) Christmas Pictures from Didi and Papis

Here are some pictures from Didi and Papi's house over Christmas. Their friend Tom came over, dressed as Santa on Christmas Eve. Veda walked over to us and whispered, 'Check out his shoes, I'm pretty sure that's not Santa'. It didn't help that we had been tracking Santa on Google and he was just reported as being over Portugal a few minutes earlier. About 30 minutes later, Tom and Joanne came over to have a drink and say hi...and again, Veda was quick to point out, 'Hey, you have the same shoes that Santa had on, wink wink'...She's a quick one...