A Quick Family Trip to Irvine, CA before the Holidays
We will be taking the family to Irvine for a little pre Christmas vacation this year. It has been a very busy year and without being able to get away fro more than a couple of weekends this summer we all are in need of getting away. Unfortunately it can’t be sooner than December, but at least we will be able to take some time then.
Irvine is only a couple of hours away so getting there will be easy and quick so we won’t have to eat up too much of our vacation time traveling. We’ll leave early in the morning and get there in time for lunch and possibly get some shopping in that afternoon. With rooms booked at hotels Irvine we afre pretty much set to go.
We will be going to the observatory at the University of California with the kids interest in astronomy now and the lessons they have been getting in school the observatory is a nice tie in and will be something they will really enjoy and learn something from. We will also be taking the kids ice skating at the Irvine Spectrum Center. The kids have never ice skated so this should be fun. Growing up in upstate New York I remember ice skating nearly all winter just about every winter of my life. Now we will be sharing that experience with the kids. The topper for the weekend away will be going to see the Barclay Theater production of the Nutcracker, a perneial favorite and something we have not been able to do witht he kids any holidays before now.
Hopefully while we are there we will be able to get all our holiday shopping done too. I really dislike the dragging it out (the shopping that is) over weeks and weeks. It can seem like an endless task, so my hope is we will get a good day or so of shopping in and get that part of the holidays done and behind us.
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