The funny thing about this drive though was that about an hour from Vacaville, Ender grabbed his stuffed Mickey Mouse and said "Oh, Mickey, we are almost there to see you again." (In case you didn't read this blog last month, we went to Disneyland at the beginning of July) Wes and I looked at each other and told Ender that we were not headed toward Disneyland. He said "What are you talking about?! You said we were going to see Mickey in California!" Evidently we had confused him. We explained that we were actually going to Northern California, not Southern California, and that we were seeing cousin Mickey, not Mickey Mouse. And Solace said, "Yeah, this Mickey is human, not even a mouse at all. And there is a little Mickey too, and he is not a mouse either. He's a human like his dad." It was hilarious, and luckily, Ender was not too disappointed since he was still going somewhere he wanted to go and meeting cousins he did not know.
Upon arrival in Vacaville, we learned there was a Wii at mickey and Natalie's, and I have to say, we loved it! It will be hard not to just go out and buy one now! We will have to save up for that one.
One day when we were there we took our little family into San Francisco, since I was the only one that had been there before. We hung out at Fisherman's Wharf for a while, saw the famous sea lions on pier 39, and then drove down "the 1" along the coast until we found a beach we wanted to hang out at (Half Moon Bay). We ended up going back there later...more to come about that. But the thing about this Half Moon Bay excursion is that the brakes on my van were basically shot by the time we drove back to Vacaville. We walked in the apartment and asked Mickey where we could go to get the brakes fixed. Evidently he already had plans to go change his brakes at his friend's house the next day and told Wes to just come along with him and they could fix both cars.
Well, that's what they did. For those that may not know, Wes does not fix cars. He is not a mechanic, and would prefer to just take the car in somewhere rather that try to spend the time and effort figuring out what he has to do to fix it. So, my point is that he doesn't know about cars. So, after they did the brakes, Mickey backed out of the drive and Wes was backing out as well, but had not pumped the brakes to get the new brakes going before he started backing out. So, when he started to back out, there was no brakes coming on as he tried to stop, and he ended up hitting Mickey's car with our van. You can't really even see any damage to Mickey and Natalie's car, but ours was evidently one big dent on the back panel. Luckily, Mickey's buddy came out and said he could just fix that. So, he pulled off the panel and pounded it out as well as he could. You can hardly tell because instead of one big dent, there is a bunch of small dents. So, anyway...
The car problem aside, we had a great time visiting with Mickey, Natalie, Mickey, Matt & Gabby. We went to the Jelly Belly Factory, went to the swimming pool, went for walks around their city, and best of all just visited and hung out with them. It was a BLAST!! We had actually planned to leave on Saturday morning, but with Mickey being a real working dentist now, he was gone during the days and Wes and Mickey needed some more time to play, so we decided to stay and do the whole 13 1/2 hour drive home on Sunday. So, on Saturday we went to Half Moon Bay, But that is another blog I'd say.
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Armour, not even trying to sleep in Portland.
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Hanging out watching VeggieTales.
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Wes and kids at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco..JPG)
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