We were away all of last week on a trip to visit my father. Now, since he lives on the other side of the country this is a wee bit of a pain. Airlines no longer offer food other than a 100 calorie back of cookies and TSA gives you the stink eye if you try to bring food through security. This time I printed out their own regulations and stuck them in the freezer bag with the snacks. The guy actually stopped to read the print out then “tested” my snacks to see if I were bringing on any explosives cleverly disguised as cheese crackers. I was not.

Oh. And, word of warning… the battery pack in a cheap portable DVD player does not last from Connecticut to California. Also, bring the remote as I discovered in mid-air that I could not navigate the menus of the DVDs without it. Did you know that some children’s DVDs do not go automatically from one mini-episode to the next? Isn’t it great to learn new things?

But, despite the horrors of cross-country airline travel with two toddlers we had a fabulous time. We went to the beach, to a mission, on a railroad, to two amusement parks. There was much swimming, and much eating. I think I actually have eaten my fill of corn dogs for the year.

Fiona at Mission Santa Clara

James at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

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