Newport Beach
Posted by Christa Umphrey on 08/22 at 09:23 PM
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This was our favorite beach we visited--though possibly just because we visited in the middle of the day on a weekday. It wasn’t overly crowded, the beach was nice, it was right off the street (for a few miles) with close, inexpensive parking.
Newport Beach seems like a cool little place to live--if you made a few millions dollars a year so you could buy one of the tiny $4-5 million beach cottages. Actually I’d want one right on the beach so they’d probably be twice that. And then of course it seemed pretty mandatory that you’d also have to hire 3-4 Mexican gardeners to tend to your 80 square feet of lawn and your tree. I might not be able to afford Orange County life in the immediate future.
Beach Bums--the ocean was the kids’ favorite part of the trip
Yankees Game
Posted by Christa Umphrey on 08/21 at 08:45 PM
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August 21, 2007
Anaheim, California
One of our main reasons for picking this date for a trip to California was so we could catch a Yankees game while we were there. Unfortunately for the Yankee fans in our family, the Angels are good, too, especially at home. If you weren’t an Angels fan this wasn’t the best game to watch, but it was still pretty fun. The stadium was nice (none of us had been to to this one before) and the weather was perfect by game time. We went a few hours early to watch batting practice and warmups. Israel liked that part because you can get right by the field to see the players. No one in our group caught any balls, but one of the players gave Israel one while he was dangling over the wall with everyone else yelling for one. A little later one of the pitchers came and signed it, too, so he was pretty excited before the game even started.
Like father like son...he’s already completely brainwashed
Outside Angels stadium, waiting for the gates to open
Israel excited about his baseball. He had to run up to show Zoran and Azia. Dev (in the Mantle #7 jersey) stayed close to the field to try to get his own ball.
Azia and Zoran liked the game, but they probably would’ve liked it a little more if it was a few innings shorter. Zoran spent a lot of time playing with his cars and of course, , as pictured, they were always lined up in an orderly fashion when he took a break to watch the game. I think Azia’s highlight of the game may have been her cotton candy. She waited impatiently for two innings for one of the vendors to get close enough to hear her yelling “Cotton candy!...One cotton candy!” like all the people around us yelling to the peanut-selling guys. She did also like the waterfall in centerfield and cheering against the Yankees with all the Angels fans around us, but that last one really annoyed her dad. (I think that’s partially why she enjoyed it so much.)
