Finally posting about our family vacation to California over Christmas and New Years. :)
In my last post I stated that we were not going to go to California. Well in the evening, that same day that I posted the previous post. My dad called telling us to get ready because we were leaving already. Well, we did get ready we even talked to our neighbors the Doherty's to see if they could house sit while we were gone. They gladly said yes and we thanked them and we were on our way. We left at 5:30 pm, we stopped to fill up the gas tank. Right as we passed Provo my dad called my two uncles (his brothers) to notify them that we were leaving for California and that we would see each other in a week. They had suggested that we leave on Monday the 24th instead, but we said that we would sleep over at my aunt's house in Cedar City. It was nice seeing them after so long and even meeting our cousin-in-law. We slept and then woke up at 4:00 AM (MST), we were able to say goodbye to my aunt and we were able to thank her for her hospitality. We finally left and then we passed Las Vegas in the early morning and it was still lit, then we left and arrived in California where there was a rainbow that kept following us for quite a while. Then we entered into the San Bernandino Area, where it was extremely foggy, you couldn't see the car beside you, everyone had to follow a cop car that was leading the way.
Finally we made it into Fullerton which is where my family all lives. We went from one house to another trying to find them, however, we were lost and so we finally decided to call them because we sucked at trying to surprise them. After we finally talked to my aunt we headed over to her house in Long Beach, and we visited her for a while then we met her husband, their kids, which was fun. We ate chivo, nopalitos (cactus). And we just chatted about everything and anything. Anyways have way through the day we decided to go visit our great-aunt who was visiting from Mexico and she was at my uncles house (who I had never met before until Christmas Eve) he lives in Moreno Valley in really small apartment where he has to rent to his brother-in-law. We arrived just in time to help them prepare the Christmas Eve dinner which was tamales nejos with mole verde and rojo.
Very delicious. I saw more aunts that I hadn't seen in a long time, as well as I missed seeing my cousin and my other aunt that I would always Skype with while she was still in Mexico. All because I was tired that night and went to sleep extremely early for a Christmas Eve party. Anyway, even though I didn't get to see them in person I know that this year will be different and we will see each other more often whether its us taking trips to California or them taking trips out here to Utah. (Interesting fact about Christmas Eve, was that I slept for the first time since forever, inside the car because inside the house there was no more room no matter how much reorganization they would do.) Even though we did not receive any presents I feel that our trip to California was not only a present to our family from our parents but it was our present to all of our family in California, for them to meet us and get to know us as well.
On Christmas Day, we woke up early and were talking with my uncle to see what our plans were for that day, when my uncle from Corona texted us to see if we were going to go visit them so we said yes, however, my uncle had other plans first, to eat and then to go. Which we did we ate with carnitas and cueros and buche. Which was all delicious and finally for dessert we had traditional homemade Mexican candy brought all the way from my home state of Guerrero by my great aunt. IT was really delicious and a great way for my parents to think of their olden days. Finally, it was time to leave for Corona.
To be continued to another post so that it is not to long!
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