Well, it's Wednesday and we are still here in CA! Our plan was to fly home Tues evening, but due to my rushed on-line reservations, I had Spencer & Mikaela flying home on the 1st and the rest of us flying home on the 2nd. Thankfully, I realized this BEFORE we went to the airport. Unfortunately, we had already checked out, ran around both parks that morning doing our "last minute" rides and souvenir buying, and arrived back to the hotel totally exhausted. We had our huge pile of luggage waiting curbside for the shuttle when I realized my "little" mistake.....the date was only off by 1!
Anyway, I had less than 20 minutes to call the airlines, change reservations, check with hotel availability, get online to verify info, round up the kids, make sure the luggage did not get loaded on the shuttle and then nicely ask bell services to load back up our huge pile of stuff. Our friends-the Labossiers-had a good laugh with us as they headed to the airport with correct tickets to catch their plane!
We were definitely having a "California Adventure"...the Alexander way!
The kids asked (really begged) if we could NOT do anymore Disney that day. They immediately went to their room to lay down, kick their feet up and chill out while Bruce took a much needed nap. We had a nice dinner together as a family, a walk through Downtown Disney and all had a good night's rest.
We had a great brunch this morning with some fun Disney characters, loaded and packed up everything AGAIN, Bruce and the boys went to do "last-minute" Disney rides, MB called bell services (with much fear and trembling)and we will be catching the shuttle in an hour. We made the best of our extra unexpected 24 hours together, and we look forward to being home tonight....really, we are coming home today!
We had an amazing time as a family...so many laughs, doing fun things, making special memories, with Spencer & Tracy catching most of it on camera. Bruce was Mr. Sunscreen and Mr. In-The-Shade, being very careful with any sun exposure. He was glad to have the time resting in Palm Desert prior to Disneyland. He had to take a break everyday and rest, but did pretty well keeping up with the rest of us. He now needs a vacation after our vacation. :)
We have many more fun stories and pictures.....keep posted for more details of The Alexander Adventures!
As Tigger would say,
TTFN (ta-ta for now),
MBA for the A Team
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Welcome home for real! :-) Glad your trip has been such a group-blessing. Continuing to pray for you all as you settle in back home and receive all the upcoming medical reports.
Clarke crew
MaryBeth, it sounded like a wonderful trip! I'm so glad you all were able to take a family vacation especially in the warm California sunshine. We also continue to pray or you. You are dear to us all. Welcome Home!
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