Saturday, October 18, 2025

Guptills at Disneyland

 

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We had a fun Disney family reunion with the Guptill cousins - we stayed in some nice rental houses near Disneyland, arranged for by Uncle Cody who owns the rentals.  It was so fun!
I grew up 15 minutes from Disneyland so it was a big part of my childhood and I love visiting.

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And had great matching shirts made by Aunt Angie

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We squished onto Pirates together


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On the Millenium Falcon ride

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blue milk in Galaxy's Edge

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Autopia

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Splash Mountain - now Tiana's Bayou Adventure

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We got splashed

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Space Mountain

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Dole Whip

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I felt so energized to be there
Hooray for Disneyland!!

Alcatraz

 

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We drove from Washington down to Anaheim for a family reunion.  
But we stopped in San Francisco to see Alcatraz.
Here we are waiting to board the boat to Alcatraz.

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On board 

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Alcatraz in sight

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The self guided audio tour of the cell block on Alcatraz was really cool.  It tells you where to walk and everyone else is also moving around, silently, so it all runs really smoothly.

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In solitary

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Hello San Francisco!!
Alcatraz was worth the visit!

Summer Fun

 

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We got to see some Guptill cousins and have a fun pizza night with them.

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Most of the kids spent the night with the cousins and had fun!

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4th of July fun on our block - we ended up supplying most of the neighborhood kids with  sparklers, snakes and smoke bombs.

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Scott, Grant, John and Emma went to the Ellison family reunion in Utah.
Here are the kids at the shooting range with lots of cousins, aunts and uncles.

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I'm not big into guns - Scott has been trained on them a lot with the military.
The only time I've shot a gun was with my cousins in Utah.  And its the same with our kids.  :)

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The boys got muddy swimming - it was hard to get out of the creek
Here they are getting cleaned up

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Shooting rockets

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Skit time


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The Guptill portion of the family did a synchronized swimming skit.


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Grant wanted to sleep in the car vs. the tent


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And riding the "redneck waterslide"

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Woohoo!!


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They had a fun time at the reunion.



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Anna and I went out for sushi

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Anna is working on a weather temperature quilt.  Each line of the quilt represents a day in a year

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Each few degrees is represented by a different color yarn


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John, Emma and I tried some geocaching

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Geocaching!

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Enjoying smoothies on a hot day

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And Emma went to Broadway day camp - they did a revue at the end of it.