Where have you been???

Ha!ha!ha!  Should the question REALLY be, "Where have I been?"  Have you been wondering where we've been hiding?  Now I'm driving almost 50% of the time when we're out on the open road. Here's my "hello" to you from Elko!

We drove straight through from Elko to Gardnerville, NV and have been in a period of "down time" getting stuff done.  We were so blessed our first night here with the loveliest of sunsets.  Check out this beauty taken from my sister's front lawn.

We spent a few days just kicking around and then my seven sisters and one sister-in-law took off for a week in Palm Springs.  It's our annual Girls Weekend (well, not really a weekend, but it's hard to lose that name!). I drove to LA with my two sisters and we had a slumber party at my sister Kitti's condo in Old Torrance (right across from Torrance Bakery).  There were five of us who invaded her husband's space -- David was a good sport about it.  The next morning, I spotted Cassie and Glen McCarter in front of the bakery.  What a wonderful surprise.  Unfortunately, it was a very short "hello" as we were leaving for Anaheim.

You're never too old for the Magic Kingdom ... supposedly the happiest place on earth!  My feet, however, did NOT think of it as the happiest place on earth! 

Here's Disneyland, all decked out just for Halloween.

 

 

The most amazing thing to me was, here we are at Disneyland, on a Thursday (mid week) in early October, and it was crowded!  What's up with that?  Why aren't these kids in school?  The average wait time for a ride was about 45 minutes.  We decided to forego riding together and wherever we could we stood in the "singles" line which was way, way shorter and made it a whole heck of a lot faster getting on a ride.  This cut our ride wait time down by at least 20-30 minutes on a ride!  I highly recommend going in the singles lines.

We bought the tickets to go between California Adventure and Disneyland.  We rode four rides in CA Adventure (Radiator Springs Racers, California Screamin', Soarin' Over California, and Twilight Zone Tower of Terror).  My two favs were CA Screamin' and Tower of Terror!  Then we spent the rest of the day (from around lunch time on) in Disneyland. We actually got on every ride that we wanted to enjoy!  It was 11 hours of fantasy fun by the time we got back to the hotel for the night.

 

Can't remember what ride this was, but we sure had some sister fun!

 

We always plan dinner out one night.  First we went to have a drink at PGA West (pictures below taken there) and then we went to the Cliff House for dinner.  We decided to split a bunch of appetizers rather than each order a separate dinner.  Scrumptious!

 

All of us!

 

Here I am with my sister Trisha, sister-in-law Lori, and sister Jeanne.

Sisters Joani and Nancy

Can you say, "Retired!"?