Day 5

We left Santa Maria early and stopped at McDonalds for breakfast. Holy cow was the expensive.  We all shared food and yet it was almost $30!  I feel like we barely had anything, but man feeding this many people can sometimes be pretty ridiculous. The kids thought it would be fun to play on Ronald McDonald. 

I wanted to stop in a little town that was about 5 miles off the path because it was called Solvang and it is a little dutch town that is completely made to look like it is Dutch. It was really cute and we stopped for some really amazing pastries and shared them.  We got a ton of strange looks and a lot of Asians were taking our pictures. All the girls wore their darling dresses that Grandma made them and they looked so cute, but I think that may have just contributed to us looking more like Polygamists.

 We thought we would have all this time to make it to LA and to Anaheim to our hotel before we headed to the Dodger game that night. Wow were we wrong! Even though by normal distance standards we should have gotten there in less tahn three hours, easily! It took us all day to get there, and as we got closer it just kept getting worse.  We finally realized that there was no way we were going to make it down to our hotel and then back up to the game, so we deideded to just stop and get some lunch/dinner and hang there for a while and then head to the game.  I just dont know if I could ever live down there becasue the traffic makes me want to get a gun everytime I am there! 

 The kids were really excited to go to a dodger game because the dodgers were playing so well and we thought there would be a good chance to see them win!  Boy were we wrong.  They had a terrible outing and lost pretty handily. It was a little disappointing, although we did still have a good time being together at the game.

 We happen to go on a giveaway night, and although it wasn't that great of a giveaway , it was still something and we had never gotten anything at a game before so that was pretty cool.

 Clara was such a good sport that night, and really the whole trip!  She really loves her cousin Ruby so much and was always asking for her and wanting to sit with her.

Unfortunately the only way to get out of the stadium was back through horrible traffic and it took forever to get to our hotel!  It was one of those really soul stretching patience breaking times where you almost have a breakdown because you are so dang tired and it feels like you are really never going to make it to your destination!  We got in that night and all just collapsed in bed and let everyone sleep in for a long time!