CHILL- or..."how Southern California does winter!"

We have had a lot go on since Christmas.

A lot. In just three weeks. 

Chill. A visit to Grandma's. A baby join the family. A special friend from China visited. A BAD case of the flu made the rounds. 

Starting with Chill - a Southern California winter wonderland experience! This is mostly a picture summary - and there are a lot of them because my children were especially cute this day! 

 The centerpiece of Chill is the ice Kingdom is the arena that has huge ice sculptures and is kept at 7 degrees. As is evident here, one of our children was not particularly about the jackets nor the temperature. 

 There is a huge ice replica of the Queen Mary with ice slides on either side. Those where a hit....

 The thawing of unhappy child at the slide was only temporary....

 After the ice kingdom, we did some ice skating - VERY fun!!! 

 Pretty sure they don't have iceskating in China! Julia wanted to try it out thought 

It was a very fun day.....even the part where Katie decided to leave the group (without permission!) and head to the swings and take a ride. The rides were $5 - not sure how she did that, but she had a good time!