Well hello there, let me tell you that we made the lemonade, so to speak, and have now drank it entirely!!

So where did we leave off.........right, no motorhome, but DISNEYLAND bound! What great fun we all had their. We were able to get 3 days for the price of 2 and get all the rides, adventure, and magic of disneyland covered. The kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves and so did Mark and I. The sky fell on us completely one day while walking to Disneyland from the rv site, but the kindness of strangers continued, while walking in monsoon conditions a lovely lady threw her umbrella out the window at me, so nice! We took cover in a McDonalds and rung our clothes out, than dried them under the high performance dryers in the bathroom. Speaking of McDonalds Teaghen had once again left her retainer there, thank goodness Rryla noticed it and put it in her pocket, than told her dad and the two of them let her sweat it out for awhile thinking it had been thrown away. They finally told her they had it. I have a feeling this will not be the last incident with Teag's retainer!

Our favorite rides at Disneyland were:

Rryla------Screaming over California (roller coaster)

Teaghen----Screaming over California (roller coaster)

Brooklyn----Soaring over California

Aidan-------Star Wars

Mark-------Soaring over California

Brandy-----Pirates of the Carribean

Aidan amazed us all by riding some big rides such as Thunder Mountain, Splash Mountain, and Star Wars, he seems to be missing the "fear Gene", not sure this is such a great thing. The kids each got a souveneer to remember the fun times at Disneyland.

While without our mohome, our diet has consisted mainly of fast food, and let me tell you Americans have no shortage of fast food places to choose from. No wonder every 3rd person we come accross needs a Jenny Craig! And the portions are way bigger than in Canada; for example we ordered a pizza one night and they had the regular sm, med, lrg, than they had xlrg, xxlrg, and party size. So here we were, all 7 of us, because we were with Larry and we wanted to treat him to Dinner, so we decided to go for the x large size! Well, holly schnikies (as Kiwi would say) this thing was gynormous! We ate it for the next 2 days (oh and in the end Larry wouln't let us even pay for the pizza, the cost was 23$)

We left our RV park in Anaheim this morning. Our new friend "Larry" had his wife drive up from Imperial Beach to pick our gypsy asses up and bring us to this lovely 3 bedroom home in San Diego (it belongs to the lovely Danna who is currently in Squamish where she lives half time) how incredibly gracious she is for letting us shack up here whilst we are in limbo. So, it looks like we will be here for a week or two before heading to Phoenix. We have plans to go to Sea World and the beach. We finally took off our bumper sticker that said "We're only happy when it's raining" and the sun has found us at last. Our older girls will be doing some homework and catching up with friends i am sure, and Mark and i will get drunk!! Just kidding, well not really.

To give you an update on the motorhome im not sure what to say. The mechanic that we had originally taken it to seems not only untrustworthy, but has informed us today that his shop is foreclosing, so we will now get it towed to another location tomorrow. Hopefully this new mechanic can iron things out without too much trouble (and money) and we can get back to rv life after our stint in San Diego.

We thank you all for following our blog and will gladly accept any prayers you might have for us!! Oh lord, we are all still smiling and enjoying ourselves so please remember this, life is an adventure, we are living it. It is through adversity that we find our true strength, and appreciation for life. Oh and my new favorite, "struggle is an opportunity to excel"

Love to you all

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