We had a great Thanksgiving vacation in California, thanks for asking. 😀

We left in the afternoon, the Tuesday before Thanksgiving w/ a car loaded up with food and presents (save on shipping by delivering Christmas goodies) and headed out on our 18-hour, 4-state trek. Thankfully we were able to beat the snow, so I-70 was a breeze through the Rockies…well, except for that Audi. We reported an Audi to the state troopers around Eisenhower tunnel. We had been following them since Wheatridge and watched as they almost creamed into several cars and for some reason could not stay with-in the lines on the road. Anyway, they got a ticket, Lava barked at the Trooper and we went on our merry way.

We finally made it to Ventura just before 8am the following morning. Noah crashed immediately at my parent’s house and somehow I was wide awake and didn’t crash until that night. I suppose I could put a plug in for Red Bull, I’m sure that played a part.

Everyday of our trip was spent with someone doing something. We’re always so popular when we show up in the Golden State. We visited with my aunts and uncle that came out for the holiday, several sets of friends, had 2 Thanksgiving dinners (on two days, which makes it much easier to digest), and of course, both of our respective families. We headed back for the hills (literally) Sunday night and made it into town Monday afternoon.

I think of the three of us travelers, Lava was the happiest to be out of the car and able to run around in her backyard again…although even with sleeping most of the ride she crashed, completely zonked that night. She was probably glad to be back on her own turf without little kids terrorizing her (when nephews attack).

All in all it was a busy, but great trip. Who knows when we’ll be headed back to California again, there are no plans to do so in the immediate future. Plus, I’m glad I’m back in Colorado so I don’t have to miss out on any more snow (it snowed Wednesday & Friday around Thanksgiving while we were out of the state).

I’ll post pictures when I get around to downloading them off the camera. I’ll put up another post to let y’all know when they are up.

Also – a big thanks to our wonderful neighbors that kindly collected our mail and dealt with our trash cans!