Last minute mini trip

On a very last minute whim, we decided to leave town for a 3 day weekend. On Friday, after Kirk got home from work (kids had the day off for teacher development day), we headed to Orange County just for the heck of it. We stayed in Costa Mesa (Kirk's and my old stomping ground for work) at The Westin right across the street from South Coast Plaza.

That night we went to our very first Angels game as a family. Justin couldn't have been more excited about it. It's been on his wish list for a long time now. And even though we sat in the family section way out in left field and they lost, we had a fun time! And I must add that we had dinner there - Carl's Jr. Normally when we go to Carl's Jr. we spend about $25 for our family. Can you guess what we spent there? Come on...guess. You'll never even come close. Are you ready for this? Drum roll...

$70 and some change!!!!!!!!!!! That is robbery!!!!! Just had to throw that in there.

We sat right in front of the bull pin and were able to watch the pitchers warming up. Avery kept asking for a ball from one of the A's relief pitchers and he promised to give her one later, but then never did. Mean! :)

At first this sleeping arrangement looked like a good idea, but in the middle of the night I found him half off the chair and looking quite uncomfortable, so he ended up on the floor with some very nice down comforters for padding.

Saturday the plan had originally been to hit the beach or at least the pool, but it turned out to be a chilly and overcast weekend, so we decided to use the free coupons we got from the Angels game and went to Irvine Park and went to the zoo. Always a lot of fun. Love that park!

The whole park is all decked out for Halloween already, so that was a lot of fun.

Our awesome Angels coupons also included a buy 1, get 1 for the train, so we did that too. Devin's favorite.

Their pumpkin patch was open with a free hay maze and very kid friend haunted house, so we took advantage of those too.

After all that fun we headed back to our hotel for some rest and then headed across the street to the South Coast Plaza where Avery bought this very cute hat and Devin and she rode the carousel.

Then it was dinner. After that we took the kids to see where we met (our old work) and to watch the planes come in at John Wayne Airport. It's changed a lot in the fact that there are now signs on the fence saying no loitering and it's monitored by Homeland Security. About 3 police cars with spot lights came by us and saw us, but we never got asked to leave. Not sure if that makes me feel very safe, but it was fun to watch the planes come in. The next morning we went to my parents, had lunch and picked up Haley and came home. It was a fun weekend!