Family Vacation Day 20

Not quite sure what it was about last night, but I didn't sleep so well. Might have been the wind gusts from the Santa Ana event. I know that at 4.30 am I saw that lights were on in the living room. I thought that's really early for Daniel to be up. But honestly I didn't care, just turned over and slept till about 8 am. By that time my family had already started to prepare breakfast. I just started coffee. At that time our neighbor Brad stopped by to drop off the heavy duty weed whacker, since the brush clearance deadline is approaching quickly and Kenny wanted to get in some time doing yard work. A little after 8.30 Bernd and I left to drop off their rental car at Enterprise in Valencia. We got there around 9 am, dropped off the car and everything went off without a hitch. By the time we got back Kenny was getting ready to start weeding...turns out that we didn't have any wire for the weed whacker, so he had to go to Lowe's to pick some up. Meanwhile Bernd checked some things with the airline and Mom talked to Dad via Skype to make sure that everyone is on the same page when it comes to picking Mom up in Vienna on Monday. Once Kenny got back it was time to put Daniel down for a nap. Then Kenny went outside and started with the yard work.

About 2 hours later Daniel got back up again and my Mom, Sis, Bernd and my 2 nephews had some of yesterdays left overs for lunch. I really didn't feel like having left overs. For heavens sake it's Saturday...definitely time for some junk food! I then drove out to Santa Clarita, about 20 min. away, to pick up some Taco Bell for Kenny and I. While I was trying to leave Daisy tried to chase after my truck, so I had to put her back into the house. I got back about 40 minutes later and Kenny and I sat down to have a rather late lunch. After that Kenny got ready to do a 'Knight of the Guild' recording in North Hollywood.

I checked to details of having my family picked up by taxi on the web, but couldn't find out the details about the kids seat. So there was no other way than calling them. Turns out that I have to provide kids safety seat and kids booster seat myself and I have to pick them up at their HQ after the had delivered my family to the airport. Since we didn't have a booster seat that wasn't really an option. So I went with the original plan: driving them ourselves to the airport. After that 'adventure' I spent some time with my Sis, Leonhard and Daniel...and my 2 nephews got a little to around in my big pickup truck. Both of them had fun, but Daniel especially was having a blast playing around with the steering wheel and checking out each and every button and know in the truck cab.

After that Bern and I went into Agua Dulce to pick up Pizza for dinner. We had a yummy dinner and Daniel went to bed by 8 pm. Leonhard got to play several rounds on our Wii. By 10.30 pm everyone had gone to bed. I finished watching the news and 1 episode of 'Sex and the City' and then I went to bed as well and that concludes the last day of my family's vacation.