Christmas Vacation

December 17, 2007 - December 26, 2007
To start off we have to tell you about our wonderful flight. We flew out of San Diego heading for Newark, New Jersey. Well, on our flight there was an elderly Oriental man. We saw him when he boarded the plane. He looked scared, delirious and the worse part he couldn't speak English. Three hours up in the air he starts having breathing problems. The stuartist got on the intercom and asked if there was a doctor and someone who spoke his language. Amazingly enough there was a doctor, a nurse & someone who spoke his language. Well, the man was getting worse and worse... an hour to Newark, the captain got on the intercom to announce that we are landing in Chicago at the O'Hara airport. After we land and a medical team took the elderly man off the plane we got back on our route, not that it mattered, since we missed our flight from Newark to Buffalo. Anyway, we finally got to Newark, missed our flight... so we went to the customer service place to see what they could do for us. We had 2 options, we could either wait in Newark till 9pm to catch a flight to Buffalo or fly from Newark to Detroit have a 1 to 2 hour layover then finally fly to Buffalo. We decided to fly to Detroit... it was faster. So, we flew from San Diego, dropped in Chicago, then to Newark, then to Detroit & finally got to Buffalo... then drove to Salamanca getting to Mike's Mom house around 6 - 6:30pm.
For Christmas vacation, we flew up to Salamanca, New York and drove down to Warren, PA. Our vacation seemed to have gone by so fast. Every day, was full of things to do, sometimes it seemed like we didn't have time to do everything we wanted to do. But it was still a nice trip!
Mike got to see and visit with his family and got to see 2 of his best buddies, which he has know since kindergarden! He showered his little cousin's with lots of hugs and kisses. I must say I got a little jealous... lol.
While we were in Salamanca, we went to Ices's 2nd grade christmas play, it was so cute! We went to visit Mike's Uncle Allen's grave stone (who Mike is named after). Mike took me to 2 diners; Fish's Diner & Langworthy's Diner... I was amazed!! Mike, Karley & I went to the Salamanca Mall, which constist of a dallor general store, an antiques store and a hardware store. We also went bowling with Mike's Gram'pa and cousin Karley. Mike's Gram'pa is a pro-bowler, he has about 10 trophy's to prove it. Mike had a snow ball fight with his cousin's Karley, Ices & Ila. Ila is the younest, she got hit in her face and began to cry, Mike picked her up to comfort her. I watched and took photo's. We cooked a Honduran meal for Mike's Gram'ma & Gram'pa. We went to PA to visited Mike's father & his family. While we were there, we went to David's (Mike's half brother) wrestling match, there was 7 different schools competing. David won first place in the 171 lbs division. Back in Salamanca, we spent one evening hanging out with Mother & her boy friend. We played darts, it was alot of fun. We drove up to Little Valley, its about 20 minutes from Salamanca to visit with Mike's Uncle Mike (who he is also named after) & Aunt Sue. On the drive up to Little Valley, we saw a gaint hotdog & the Salamanca City Hall... the old one that is. On Christmas Eve, we went to Mass with Mike's Gramma & watched a little play... then went back to Gramma's house to open Christmas gifts. On Christmas morning we had lunch at Gramma & Grampa house. Then we took a walk behind the grandparents house, to walk the train track. We also went to the BIG casino... it was fun!
The entire time we where in Salamanca I was freezing, Mike thought it was quite warm.

Mike's Family, they are all nice & kind... Gram'ma is a sweet, kind, little lady who knows how to cook and always puts everyone else before her. Gram'pa, let me tell you a story. He called over to Mother's house to talk to me, the reason he called was to tell me "I have some M&M's over here for you". He loves candy & he's very sweet. Mother is hularious, very talkative, & is always ready to have fun. The girls, are wild, sweet sometimes & very funny. Since we didn't spend alot of time with Mike's Father & his family, I don't have anything to say about them... I mean they were nice & pretty sarcastic. We didn't spend a lot of time with Mike's aunt Susie. But uncle Mike & aunt Sue, well they were not very talkative when we drove to their house to seem them, but the next day we drove up again to meet them at the VFW. Mike's Gram'ma told us ones uncle Mike get a beer in his system he will talk your ear off... Gram'ma was so right!

We did our best to spend time with everyone. All in all it was a nice trip. But we are very happy to be back home in San Diego... the weather is so nice over here and we finally get to relax and get back to our normal lives!