We have learned from past vacation times throughout our school year that if we don't plan on keeping the kids busy with new & exciting adventures that we'll pay the price with kids who like to declare their boredom when the neighborhood kids are not home... And I have no problem with little kids washing walls, deep cleaning rooms, organizing closets to fight that boredom, but we decided to make the most of our vacation time and 'do.'
Our big plan was to get Disney passes for the family since we live so close. The passes pay for themselves--if you go two days in the year. When it came down to it, we just couldn't justify with all of our 'unknowns' at the moment.
SO I had this bright idea to go fishing...in November. Not so shabby since we live in just a tempered climate. We don't have equipment handy for a fishing family of 8 {or even 1}, so off we went to Huckleberry fishing pond {where they're guaranteed to have a catch and all the equipment is there} up in Anaheim. I thought I did the research. Um, try again. We drove up and could hardly recognize that this was a pond. Plastic sheeting, fake rocks, a chain link fence...and not a sole to be found and of course, no fish--oh, and no water. Talk about deflating! Apparently it's a very man-made pond right in front of Anaheim Lakes but they're only opened on weekends in the fall. Big bummer. Nothing an In-n-Out burger and a trip to the LegoLand free hour can't make up for. So off we went...again. The kids LOVE that free hour--and so do mom and dad. Especially when it's topped off with a trip to Costco across the street from LegoLand for dinner. Hot dogs, pizza, polish sausages and ginormous churros. We can eat for less than $15 there--what a bargain. We pull out all the stops, let me tell ya {haha}.
My mom reminded me of what Lexie told her on the phone when we were going fishing: My mom asked her if she was going to have me cook the fish so she could eat it, to which she replied, "You've GOT to be kidding!" She later tried to think this out in her head... couldn't fathom eating a little fishy. "You mean, we're going to eat chickenfish?"
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Okay, you are awesome. That fishing kerfuffle sounds so familiar--just the sort of thing that would happen to us. But when you are a Big Fun Family, you make your own fun. You got skillz. And churros! Lucky.
That was a bummer but good idea with the fishing - try again later! I remember my dad always taking us to the trout farm off of Kanan road I think...you just put your fishing pole in and get a fish it is a lot of fun. Atleast you tried - I would love to live close to lego land and go free!
Shay forgot to tell you about what Lexie said to me the morning they were getting ready to go fishing. I asked her if she was going to have her mommie cook the fish so she could eat it, to which she replied, "You've GOT to be kidding!"
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