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Today was Legoland. Everyone had a great time. Katy and Margaret rode all of the roller coasters. They are becoming pros at it. It rained last night, and the Santa Ana mountains were covered in snow – it must have been one of the coldest days of the year in Carlsbad. We froze. Rusty wore a blanket like a cape part of the time we were at Legoland. My cousin, Jeremy, and his daughter, and Julie, Rusty’s high school classmate, and her two children, joined us in Legoland. All the children ran around together. We opened the park at 10 and closed it at 5 so it was another long day.

Now we are on North Island NAS with Rusty’s parents. Tomorrow we’ll visit the San Diego Wild Animal Park. And hopefully we won’t freeze.

Today was Disneyland. We got there at about 8:30am and left about 10pm. It was a long day. We got there early and stayed through the fireworks and snow. We all went on the small rollercoaster in Toontown. Sam loved it and laughed the entire way. The girls both loved it. Margaret’s favorite thing of the day was seeing all of the princesses. Katy liked driving the cars in Autopia and she liked Big Thunder Mountain, her first real big rollercoaster ride.

We rode lots and lots of rides this time. Luckily, we only did “It’s a Small World” once. But we did see it decorated for Christmas and at night. There are just a few lights there. The girls were a lot braver and Sam is a trooper. I think that we rode all of the means of transportation available. Train, monorail, boat, … We did Pirates of the Carribean, that was a little scrary for Sam.

Disneyland was all decked out for Christmas because after all, it is November. We are all a very tired bunch. I think that the kids went to sleep faster tonight than I have ever seen them fall asleep.

If you can’t understand it, he is doing the chicken dance. “I don’t want to be a chicken, I don’t want to be a duck, so I shake my butt”.

Sam went ice skating for the first time the other day. Margaret went too, but we didn’t get any pictures of her. Above is a picture of Katy and Olivia helping Sam go around the rink.

Katy at the top.

Look at Margaret go

Margaret made it to the top. Last time she never got more than 3 feet up.

Well, yesterday was the big day on our block. We had our usual Halloween block party with tons and tons of kids. We gave out glow bracelets. We had about 500 of them and gave out about 7:15. The kids had a great time. Katy got tired of trick-or-treating, so she handed out candy at the little house while Margaret and Sam kept trick-or-treating. Margaret was Blossom, a PowerPuff girl, Katy dressed as a teacher, and Sam was “Steve” from the TV show “Blues Clues.”

On Saturday, Evan and I did this ride. We rode over Page Mill to Pescadero and along the ocean back towards Santa Cruz. Elizabeth and the kids met us at a pumpkin patch and got pumpkins for Halloween.