We had a nice Christmas, complete with trips to Wisconsin and California. We were able to beat the blizzard and leave early on Tuesday to get to my parents. The drive was pretty smooth, slow but we made it before the roads got too icy and before the snow really started to come down. Ella stayed behind with Karl's parents so it was just the two of us making the trip. We did some last minute shopping and were lazy most of the time we were there. My dad made his famous Christmas Eve ham on Wednesday night and we spent Christmas day with both sides of my family. In the morning we did presents with dad then we headed over to mom's for lunch and presents with my mom, aunts, uncles and grandparents. We got a lot of great gifts and even though Ella wasn't there, we brought a few back for her. After the presents were all opened at mom's we helped grandma and grandpa set up their wii and showed them some of the wii fit and wii sports games. Friday morning we had to get up really early to make it to Chicago for our flight to San Diego. It started to snow pretty hard on Christmas so we allowed extra time to get there for our 11am flight. We planned to meet Karl's parents at Midway to take the direct flight but with the weather, things got a little crazy. The ice in northern Indiana made getting to the airport difficult for them and what normally takes 2 hours took 4. We made it just fine but we had to watch the boards in the airport to find out when and where our flight was leaving from. It ended up being delayed 3 hours which was pretty lucky considering Henry and Sharon probably would not have made the flight if it went as scheduled.
San Diego was a fun place to visit. I have only been to California one time and that was for the Rose Bowl in 2000 so I barely remember it. We stayed at a really nice Hilton resort and were close to a lot of the things we wanted to do. We didn't have any set plans other than visiting the San Diego Zoo and going to the Chargers game. The Kraebber family has a close relationship with Nick Hardwick, former Purdue player and center for the Chargers so he provided us with tickets to the game. Karl and I have gotten to know Nick as well so it was great to see him. The game was really the highlight of the trip, not only did the Chargers win and make it into the play-offs but the tickets we got were in the 4th row! The seats were amazing and I didn't need to use the zoom on my camera at all. I usually don't enjoy pro games as mush as I enjoy college games but its certainly more fun when you know people out on the field. Some of the other highlights of our trip included visiting the Wild Animal Park, Torrey Pines Golf Course (home to Tiger Woods), San Diego Zoo and downtown San Diego. The weather wasn't as warm as I was hoping for but it was sunny and beautiful every day. We were able to see the beaches but it was really not swimsuit weather! It wasn't a very long trip but the few days was still relaxing and fun. We made it back with no delays and were back at work on new year's eve.
Click the image below to see some of the photos from our trip:
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