Days 16 & 17, May 3 & 4

Saturday, May 3

• I went back to Downtown Disney for a few hours with Ruby. I got the chocolates I wanted. I just looked around at other shops. I got a few things at the Build a Bear (exclusive Disney items) for the boys for Christmas.
• Karry brought the boys to a car wash with him. He planned to vacuum it out too. They had a service for $29, and they washed, waxed, and vacuumed our car, and washed all surfaces inside. It looks SO incredibly nice and detailed, I was amazed at that cheap price! (Before we sold our mini-van, we had it detailed and it cost around $100, I think, and this $29 job looked just as great if not better!!). Are there any places like this back home??? :)
• Karry and the boys had McDonalds, I had clam chowder and a bagel in Downtown Disney, and Ruby ate chunks of bagel as well. :)
• I washed about 10 loads of laundry...No exaggeration, I'm serious. :)
• A lot of our clothes (Ruby's, especially) are staining. It might be the washing machines, it might be the fact that we're not doing laundry often enough. BUMMER! I put "stain stick" on the Walmart list.
• We cleaned up the trailer, got ready to leave the next morning, and Karry and I rented a movie from the campground office (which was no good at all, so I won't mention the name of it). We have a mini dvd player in the trailer and we can watch movies in our room when the kids go to bed. :) We have no TV though, so we're missing our shows. :(

Sunday, May 4

• I blogged some in the morning, trying to catch up!! Disney days were so long and crazy, and I didn't have time to blog much!
• We did 2 more loads of laundry....yes, we create a LOT of laundry!!
• We got the trailer ready to go. We drove for almost 2 hrs to San Diego!
• We like the San Diego KOA better than Orangeland, the last place we were at. The last place was nice, but it was kind of strange. There were people who had been living there 30 years (because it's cheap monthly rent) and they had old, orange and brown striped trailers with picket fences and yard decorations around them. It was odd...There were the Disney tourists with their obviously travle-able vehicles, and then the permanentely parked folks with decks built off of their trailers...Yeah...Strange! Now we're at a place with obvious campers--nice. :)
• We went to a Walmart in Chula Vista (where we're staying--just miles north of Mexico!!). That Walmart was CRAZY!!! It was crazy shopping with all four kids, in the first place--then the crowded Walmart made it even crazier. There were multiple folks who either didn't understand the words "excuse me" when I was trying to get by them, or they just didn't care (and I think this is the case, because many just looked at me and wouldn't budge). I had to be pushy to get through the crowds, which is incredibly uncomfortable for me. I left that store exhausted, and since it wasn't a Super Walmart, I still didn't have eveyrthing I needed. Blah!
• We found a Food 4 Less, crowded as well, but I went in alone this time and got everything I needed.
• Note: at so many places lately, we have had glares from black folks when they see us with Ruby. It's made me sad. I wish they'd just be nice and talk to us...In line at Food 4 Less, there was an African American family. I asked how old their baby was, she was 10 months (smaller than 8 month old Ruby!!). I told them that we had a 8 month old girl we had adopted. They asked if it was our first, I explained that we had 3 boys--1 we had also adopted. I mentioned that I liked their 7 year old's hair, the mom said "oh, I need to moisturize it." I asked "what do you use?" and she asked, with a smile, "did you adopt an African American baby?" and I said "yes," and then we had pleasant conversation after that. She wrote down some product suggestions for me to use on Ruby. I can't tell you how delighted I was to have that conversation with them!!! They were SO nice, and I was beginning to believe that all African Americans out there were opposed to our family raising a black baby, and I was wondering how Ruby would ever connect with people who look like her....That conversation gave me HOPE!
• The boys got to play outside in the rocks some, and I re-organized the kitchen cupboards.
• We had picked up a few movies at Walmart, and last night we watched the 5th Jannette Oke dvd in the Love Comes Softly series, "Love's Unending Legacy". I loved it...I like cheesy, sappy stuff like that... :)