christmas vacation: part 5 (san diego)

after a flight, magic mountain, fashion island, christmas eve dining, christmas day brunching, and a visit to pasadena, we headed down to san diego to visit with patrick's aunt judy, uncle jeff, uncle kip, and cousins kiira and jenny.

they rented a house in la jolla for the holiday,

and invited us to join for several days!

i guess they rented it from ray kroc's grand-daughter.
10 points if you know who that is before clicking the link!

it was a full house the first night we got in - complete with visitors!

'reverand' flansburg (patrick's family friend who officiated our wedding ) lives less than a mile from the rental.  so he and his girlfriend stopped in for a visit.  he and his girlfriend are expecting and we had just heard the news, so it was quite exciting to meet kari and give congratulations.

piper also got to meet my college friend amber and her mama b. they had just gotten back from mexico, and were staying at amber's dad's house in la jolla, also just about a mile away. with all the chaos of our own arrival, bedroom switching, people in and out, and a very tired baby, i didn't get a picture of me and amber!  but so glad we got to see them before their early flights out of town the next morning! the chance to see them had pretty much everything to do with us driving down monday afternoon instead of waiting until tuesday.

quite a first night in sd!