Last day of holiday today. We had a private tour booked of LA so she was very flexible! Our first stop was the Nike store for new trainers for John, then we headed to the farmers market for lunch. It was an amazing place with lots of different food options. We all had American hot dogs and soda. Then we hit the American Girl store where the girls went crazy. Thank you to all the relatives for the birthday money - still cost us a lot!! After that we went to see...

Spent the day at California Adventure Park. Was another great day and not as busy as Disneyland. The highlight of the day was the 'Cars' ride. Lauren couldn't get over the fact that they had replicated the street off the Cars movie. The ride was really cool - first you went on a road trip through Radiator Springs and then raced another car on the race track. Very well done! We did the Grizzly River Run which was a white water raft ride that include two big sudde...

Big day at Disneyland today. We hit the park at 8am when it opened which was by far the quietest it was all day. Started getting really busy around 10ish. We managed to do Autopia (a car race track), a fairground type ride, Roger Rabbit spinning ride, mini roller coaster, splash mountain, Indiana Jones and a jungle boat ride. Splash mountain was by far the most exciting - the drop over the waterfall was huge!! We headed back to the hotel around 2pm - it was gett...

We've made it to LA! But all feeling very tired and girls haven't eaten very well - forgot to check they had kids meals

We're off on our adventure - fresh and ready to travel!