Travel & Discovery Cube
November 15-16
On the road! We headed out for our first big trip with our family of 6. Matt got a new device called a Hoo Too that can stream media from a thumb drive to wireless devices in the car. It was a pretty pleasant drive, with the three biggest kids plugged in to the movies of their choice. We left on a Sunday afternoon, much later start than we planned, and drove to Barstow, California. We stayed at the Comfort Suites. The hotel was pretty awesome. Matt had joked on the request section on his online order that he would like some dinosaurs in funny hats in the room. They actually made the kids a little scavenger hunt with dinosaurs in funny hats all over the room. Even though it was super late when we arrived, the kids hunted for their dinosaurs before bed.
After breakfast we traveled the rest of the way to Anaheim to go to the Discovery Cube. We got free admission because of our museum pass from home. It was a really fun place to explore, and all the kids loved it. Matisyn especially loved this pulley thing, Emilyn loved the grocery shopping with the scanners, and Lucas loved the special Hot Wheels Exhibit. They also had a helicopter flight simulator that felt like you were really flying over California that was pretty neat. After the museum we headed to our hotel to check in. We stayed at the Ramada so that we could be across the street from Disneyland this trip. It was great to be so close, and not have to worry about getting on and off a shuttle with all the kids and strollers. We ended up lucking out with our room, and getting the only one at the hotel with an extra bed. We had plenty of room for our big family. The girls shared a bed, Matt and I shared a bed, Lucas had his own little pull out twin bed, and Kaylee had a crib. The extra space made a huge difference in our comfort, and we were so grateful for that. Mike and Alison arrived later that night and got a connecting room to ours, which the kids loved! We had dinner that night at Denny's by the hotel, and then walked over to the parks to pick up our tickets and check things out. By this time everyone was breaking down and exhausted so we went back to our room for an early bedtime.
We explored the insides of a dinosaur!
And went through a wind tunnel!
We couldn't wait for our first day at the parks in the morning!
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