family

california

erin

23 Aug 2023 — 2 min read

Our first night in California was an interesting one. At 9:00 PM I got a call from the campground to let us know that we were under a mudslide evacuation warning. Um... what? Luckily we were only staying there for one night on our way down to San Francisco and the mudslide was far enough away that we didn't have to evacuate. Whew.

Yesterday during a quick rest stop visit Olivia found a brochure for the Jelly Belly Factory, which turned out to be right on our route for today. It was a pretty cool stop for a couple hours.

There are two places Emma wanted to go in California - (1) Los Angeles, and (2) In-N-Out Burger. We're not sure if we're going to make it to Los Angeles, but tonight we checked In-N-Out Burger off her list.

birthday celebration

Olivia only had a couple special requests for her birthday. Unfortunately she was sick on her actual birthday, so we had to postpone all but one until this week. We ended up stretching her birthday celebration out to four days and finally today we completed her list. ✅ #1: (and the

hola puerto rico

It was only a matter of time until one of us got whatever Emma had. Unfortunately it was Olivia... and just in time for her birthday. She didn't let it ruin her day though. Last year we were in Martinique for her birthday. The French may know how

st. john

After our vacation in the British Virgin Islands we headed back to the US Virgin Islands. St. John is still at the top of my list of favorite islands (so far). We spent a couple days snorkeling and shopping. There are so many fish here... 0:00 /0:03 1×

vacationing in the bvi

We have a couple things we're waiting on (mainly all the girls Christmas presents), so we have a little more time to kill before we can start moving north. After spending a couple days in St. John we decided why not go to the British Virgin Islands for

Read more

birthday celebration

hola puerto rico

st. john

vacationing in the bvi