Tarbet's California Adventure Day 5

  We started Wednesday off with a quick visit at an outdoor mall with Spencer and Keri. 

 The mall had tons of cool murals and this awesome chalkboard

Huntington Beach

  After our visit we headed to Huntington Beach.  I won't lie we were all so tired and so ready to be home at this point that we were tempted to skip the beach and just go sleep in the airport.  I'm so glad we didn't!  Because it was January and 65 degrees so we saw only 6 people on the beach.  The girls were so excited and LOVED it!  We waded down the beach and collected sea shells.  We enjoyed a snack on the beach...until I realized we were being swarmed.  I HATE birds, I have a fear of them so it stressed me out so bad that they were all around us waiting for us to drop something and if you did they would jump in and grab it!  The girls wanted to see what the little birds kept running out to grab when the water went out.  They were so excited to find so many tiny clams!  The girls and I did venture a little deeper out before calling it quits.  

   After the beach we were starving and were tired of trying new things so Zach found us a Chick-Fil-A.  We sat in the restaurant and played a travel game which is just what we needed before heading to the airport.  We got to the airport 4 hours early which was so nice, we took our time going through security, found a candy store to get some treats and watched our ipads until it was time for our flight.  The girls fell asleep with in a few minutes of take off, I'm so grateful they did because it was a ROUGH flight.  The whole flight was ROUGH but landing was HORRID!  Several people were pretty stressed out from the whole flight so by the time we got to Salt Lake and had to try to land twice most peoples nerves were pretty shot.  I just kept reassuring myself that there were 3 other pilots on the plane and none of them had ran into the cockpit yet so it must  not be THAT bad yet lol!  Needless to say Zach and I were wide awake and pretty strung by the time our plane landed so we both just wanted to get home!  It stormed all Wednesday afternoon/night so we had to drive to Pocatello again to then drive to Arbon.  The roads were great from Salt Lake to Pocatello and not too bad from Pocatello to Arbon, they were a bit rough from the school to home but we made it home just after 5 a.m.

 Seriously the girls were so awesome and so cute going through the airport