Road Trip... Family... Baby Cheek Squeezen!!

We drove up to Riverside (2/9-10/2008), to visit with Jeff (Mike's brother), Ann (Jeff's wife) & Alex (their baby). We also got to visit with Ann's Grandparents, since we were staying at their home.
Riverside is 1 hour & 30 minutes north from San Diego. The trip up was amazing! We got to see SNOW on the mountain tops, which was totally shocking to us. We sang horribly off key to songs that came on the radio, that are way over played! We saw the March Air Force Base... I of course was all amazed. There were big planes on the landing strip and jets under a little tin house. While passing the base there was also a musemun, it had older aircrafts around the building.
We arrived at the Grandparents house around 9 or 10 Saturday morning. We walked in the house saying "hello, anyone here?" then there came Ann with Alex in her arms. The first thing Mike did was to grab Alex, didn't even say hi to Ann first, lol... This was the first time that we met Alex since he was born. So you can understand Mike's excitement when he grabbed Alex from Ann. Ann & I hugged & spoke for a little bit before Mike handed Alex to me, since I was so excited to see him & hold him as well... Mike finally said hi to Ann & gave her a hug. We then saw Jeff, said our hello's, hugged & just kept talking. A few hours later we met Gram'ma. Well, I met Gramma, Mike already met the Grandparents from his last visit to Riverside. We didn't meet Gram'pa until dinner time. Before meeting Gram'pa, Jeff, Ann, Alex, Mike & I went out just to catch up some more... we went to a swap meet. Jeff insisted to hold Alex in the carrier. So when we got inside the boys went straight to the car section, so Ann & I went our own way... SHOPPING! So imagine this... two girls wondering around is not a big deal, but two guys wondering around & one of them has a baby strapped to them... well they just get strange looks, lol. After the swap meet, we went up the street to a sport store to buy guns (well to look at them & see how much they were), then we wondered to Toy's R Us to get a teether for Alex. After all that wondering around & excitement, we were super hungry. But since we knew that Gram'ma was making a feast to feed an army, we just went to a little chinese place an got something to sustian us for a little while. Then we drove back to the house, relaxed, watched tv & talked. We had dinner.. and I finally got to meet Gram'pa. Who doesn't talk all that much! Well, Jeff & Mike are 11 months apart. Like they are both 21 together for an entire month, but not anymore. Anyway, they decided since they are both legal to drink, it was time to bond. So while the boys drank beer and took shots of peppermint schnopps... Ann & I enjoyed a big bowl of ice cream, each! Jeff got really talkative really quick, which was so funny! Mike on the other hand was like he wasn't drinking at all. Gram'ma & I wondered out to the garage where Gram'pa was at... his garage was full of old cars which excited me! I love old cars! Mike followed us and he was amazed as well! Jeff came in a little after us, he loves cars, so he & Gram'pa struck up a conversation about every car that was in the garage. Well, Gram'pa loves fixing up old cars, taking them to car shows, he plays the bagpipes & the organ! After spending about an hour in the garage talking and listening to stories Gram'ma, Mike & I went back to the house. Gram'ma served us some more ice cream and started to tell us stories. Gram'ma was telling us about her job as a CO. She was a CO for 30 years. She was totally cool, but kind of scared Mike & I when she was telling us her stories of putting people in there places... She doesn't take crap from anyone! Well, after stories with Gram'ma it was around 11... so we all said good night and went to bed. The next morning, we had breakfast, sat around & talked for a little while more. We then decided to drive back down to San Diego... Mike had to get his stuff ready for Monday, because he had duty (duty is when you are on the ship all day & are not allowed home till the next day, after work).
So that was our trip to Riverside, it was nice & a lot of fun. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Please enjoy the slide show as well.