The kids and I celebrated the new year in California this year. We left on Carter's birthday (more on that celebration soon) and arrived in time for a yummy dinner (one of Carter's favorites, croissant chicken) and an ice cream treat prepared by Ashely. The next day we took the kids to Chuck-e-Cheeses and to McDonalds for ice-cream and to play. On Saturday, New Years Eve, we took the kids to Discovery Cube and spent all day there. There was so much to do. The kids played legos, went on a helicopter tour, rock climbed, experienced hurricane winds and a tornado, grocery shopped with a super cool interactive store, sorted garbage and recycling, and inspected a house. Their favorite by far was the Science of Hockey exhibit. The boys especially loved trying to make a goal and then try to block goals like a real hockey goalie.
Afterwards, we went home for dinner and then we made marshmallow igloos and played games until the countdown (we streamed live from New York). At "midnight" we all danced and blew our horns. I even got a few kisses from some of these cute kids, although when I first asked Riley for a new years kiss she slapped my face!
On New Years Day we went to church and afterwards decided to go play in the California Snow. I'm pretty sure all of Los Angeles decided to go to the snow as well because the traffic was horrible. It took us 2 hours to get to the off ramp and after seeing the steady stream of slow moving cars headed up the mountain we decided to join some people we originally were making fun of for sledding on a hill with practically no snow on the side of the freeway. It turned out to be super fun!
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