Poor Daniel

3 days, 12 hours travel in a car, lots of pit stops and picnics in parks and parking lots, 5 minutes at the beach and this is how our day ended, not even 24 hours after arriving in CA.

So here is the story....

We decided to drive to CA in two legs, so we stayed the night in Las Vegas. Lucy did really well on the drive, but she was ready for a break when we got to Las Vegas.

Here she is eating some grapes through her little mesh spoon.

Ally and James had fun playing at the ball diamond in Nephi.

Lucy ''reading" her book

Then we finally made it to San Juan Capistrano. We didn't do much saturday night (eat dinner and get some groceries) so today we decided to go to the beach. Daniel, Sam, and Jon headed out into the waves, and after two waves, Daniel came up out of the water holding his wrist in pain. The life guards came over and said it definitely looked like a break, so Grandma Lu, Lucy and Amy took Daniel to the hospital to get it checked out.

We were at the hospital for about 3 hours and here are some pics of our stay.

Lucy really liked playing with her Daddy's hospital bracelet.

Eventually she got tired and took a little nap.

Here is a picture of Daniel's wrist, you can't really tell in this picture, but it looked deformed and gross.

After a nap and some pain pills, Daniel is feeling pretty good, but we are all sad that he can't swim and play in the water anymore while we are here. He has a splint on now, and will have to get a cast on when we get back to SLC.

Tonight we pulled out the poker set Daniel and I got from our wedding and played a little Texas hold 'em. It is down to Daniel, Sam and Ben (Ben has a considerable lead at the moment)

Jonathan didn't want to play, but he also didn't want to go to bed and miss out on all the action, so he fell asleep on the couch so that he could be a part of everything.

Hopefully, Daniel will still be able to play and have fun with us, at the very least he might come back with an odd tan line on his arm. We still have Disneyland, more beach, Conan (for some of us) and lots of food left to enjoy here in sunny California!