The McGilvary family flew to Indio, California over Christmas vacation to celebrate Husband's parents 50th wedding anniversary. The only flight leaving around the time we needed to get there left at 1:30am Christmas Day. For those who don't know me, I HATE traveling overnight. It's been my experience that it's much better for your kids to miss naps then to miss a whole night of sleep due to traveling. We arrived in Indio at 11am on Christmas day, starving. Luckily there was an "In and Out Burger" open. I figured we were going to California so there should be at least one place open for business. We stayed the night at Embassy Suites (best place ever in my experience) and checked into the WorldMark Resort on the 26th. While we stayed we had our own two bedroom suite with full kitchen, two baths, and laundry. A lot of family traveled down so it was wonderful to have our own space to retreat to for naps, bedtime, meal time, etc. I think at final count there were around 60 people that had come through during the week stay.
ALL the immediate family. Six children plus spouses, and 18 total grandchildren. Ours are numbers 13, 17, 18.
A bunch of the younger cousins hanging out watching a movie. There are probably a dozen or so missing. Also, this peacefulness lasted about 10 minutes. Then the boys decided to play pillow fight on the bed and the girls got all bossy.
Our family portrait.
#1 LOVED the kiddy wading pool. He won't put his face in the water so this was perfect. There was also a "lazy river" that he went on everyday. The pool was heated so it was awesome. Totally should have gone in much more then we did.
This was really cool, it's a sky tram that goes up a mountain. On top there is a national park with trails.
On one of the trails (the only short one we did). There was about 7 inches of snow and well, this was last minute and we of course didn't bring our winter gear to California, so it was a short walk. Down below there are hundred of windmills, pretty amazing to see them all.
We stayed in Indio for a week. It was a bit chilly (yeah yeah I know, it doesn't compare to here) but it was windy. The resort was really nice. They had two small parks that the cousins would meet at and play. There was a welcome bbq and then a 50th celebration. There was tie-dying shirts, a big family breakfast, and a boys day out. (The women tried, but they couldn't come to a consensus what to do.)
After Indio we drove to San Diego to spend a week with one of Husband's sisters for a week at her house. That will be pt 2!
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