Is it over already???

For day five, we went to Santa Monica Saturday morning to eat at our favorite place, Wahoo’s. If you ever go to Southern California be sure to find a Wahoo’s and eat there. Get a #10, you won’t be disappointed.

We walked through the streets on the third street promenade and watched a bunch of street performers and enjoyed the dinosaur shaped hedges.

Notice Alyssa's pose here. I after five days of me forcing her to be in pictures, she was finally cool with it and got creative.

We love Santa Monica because it truly is a melting pot. You see every kind of person there. Every race, and every class. You see super rich California couples and big huge homeless men as pictured here sitting behind my darling daughter.

We also went to the Santa Monica pier. Steve and I had our first date here. What a difference five years can make. Look at us now.


We headed down to the beach and let Sunny roll around in the dirt while Alyssa slept in the stroller. She got mad because we wouldn’t buy her each and everything she requested that she saw for sale and sulked in the stroller until she fell asleep.



We had a fun time in Santa Monica.

We headed back to Orange county on what ended up being a very very long, painful and sticky (thanks to the suckers) drive. I hate California Traffic. It’s like perpetually being on old-school 13400 South before it was upgraded.

We ate with the Davies at El Cholo, a Sokol family tradition.

Day six:
My favorite thing last time we were in California was going to Balboa and renting a Surrey bike car. So we did it again.

It was really windy, so we weren’t sure it would really work, but we ended up having a great time.

Sunny rode in the Snuggli loosened up so she could stand on the seat between me and Steve. We explored the beach houses and the peninsula. The waves were huge since it was so windy. We had a great time and took some really fun pics.



After the beach car we headed back to Trader Joe’s for some more organic snacks. Being in California, it gets to you. You have to go organic.

Then to the airport where we chowed-down on our snacks and waited and waited and waited for our flight. Health food is very important to both me and Steve. Here we are eating our healthy organic Creme Brulee.


Once we boarded Sunny transformed from a cute little Sunny Bunny into some kind of wild animal child. She was as bad as a baby could be on this flight. She screamed like a little banshee because we wouldn’t let her jump on the tray tables or have Alyssa’ milk when she had her own identical milk she wouldn’t touch.

At last it was over and we were home.

It was freezing. We collected our bags and rode the shuttle back to the car where it was snowing. For real, it was snowing. We were relived to be home even if it wasn’t warm here.

There is nothing like coming home after a long vacation. Our house seemed so big. We each had our own space. It was wonderful. We love vacations and we love coming home!

Next up, traversing across the Alps from Chamonix to Zermatt! Anyone interested?