Ken and I just returned home from a fun little trip celebrating our 37th wedding anniversary. We drove over to California and spent 3 days at Disneyland. Our kids gave us tickets to Disney last year for Christmas and our Anniv. and we finally were getting to use them. Everyone was so generous we hardly had to buy any food while there with all the extra gift cards and $$ we got. We drove over on thursday and of course all the cold winter storms had just arrived in Arizona the night before so we got to see what mother nature had left behind. The snow on the mountains was beautiful, I took this in the "windmill" area so alot of you will recognize where that is. It was fun to take a road trip, seems like alot of trips we've taken have been flying so it was fun to pack and take a few extras since we had the car.
Here is a shot of me the first day in Disneyland. We got there by 2:00 in the afternoon so we went and stayed into the evening to enjoy the "happiest place on earth".
I took a couple shots for the kids....we went out to Tom Sawyer Island, we hadn't been out there in years, it used to be a favorite for the kids to run and play on. I used to hate it as there were so many tunnels and great places to hide that you'd loose sight of your kids. Funny how now I heard Amy say the same thing! The bridge is still there, they've added a few more hands on things to do, I think the bottom of the bridge is more stable now.
This is one of the things I hated about that island....here is a tunnel they'll remember, even Ken said boy I remember this one, it seems smaller now!!! ha! I never went into them, just always tried to figure out where they'd come out on the other side!!!
We got a traditional picture by the Mickey day #2.
The snow was so pretty, we were up in that carrousel at California Adventure ( the one that slides and rocks.... UGH) and I took this looking out over the Matterhorn to the snowy mountains.
I took this picture showing the CROWDS that were there the day of new years eve. It was just packed, we left at 10:30 as you could hardly move and we decided we'd have more fun coming back in the morning at 7:30 while everyone else was asleep.
And we were right, here is the same shot the next day, it was empty, we had a blast going on several things again and again with no lines.
And Ken promised me ice cream if I would go on the Tower of Terror, we'd been before and I knew what it did, but we did it, twice, and the ice cream was wonderful!
It was great to see the parks and our lovely hotel all decorated for the holidays. It was a fun and memorable trip to take, thanks to our kids for the tickets and all the fun encouragement to go!
We all had a blast and I of course wish I'd have taken more photos of all the pretty bags that left the store, it was great. We spent the first hour making the cute flower with the beaded center, Cheri the designer of the bag came in and showed some more of her quilts and patterns and we got into making the bag.
Everyone was very patient and it's really a very social event with lots of chatting and visiting amongst each other, it's so fun to hear them all help each other if they get stuck. Here is a photo of Marti ( owner of Scrapbooks) and Amanda shoved in a table in the doorway up against the wall...
Then these 2 lucky gals got to sew out in the store right outside the doorway, wasn't that crazy. But we got them all in, didn't turn anyone away and there sure will be alot of cute bags walking around this town now!!!!
No one got to put their flower on yet as the glue was still drying but be watching for these cute bags now and you'll know you better come to Sew and Go and not miss out! 25 people have signed up for the next class Jan 18th, hmmmmm wonder what we'll be making, I"m sure it's darling :-).....I'll be cutting kits tomorrow at work for the next class. Sooooo, Sew and go was kicked off great, people were there before Barb and I even got there this morning, so yep all were anxious to get back into the swing of things after the holidays. I'm off to find a cool rag for my head and put my feet up!!!!! :-)
