Sunday, January 9, 2011

Enjoying Orange County

We're in an RV park just a 1 mile walk from Disneyland so we HAD to go there for a day...and I loved it while Gregg tolerated it OK.













Did some old classics like Autopia and I never pass up a carousel ride - one of my rules for enjoying life.








Re-visited some old favorite places from when I lived here in the 80's like the Balboa Island Ferry.


Still on our Presidential Library quest, we visited our 9th of 12 in Yorba Linda at the Nixon Library. These life-size statues of world leaders were great. Here's Gregg with Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. The room was full with Golda Meier, Anwar El-Sadat, Chou En-lai, Mao Tse-tung, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Yoshida.
One thing we love in these libraries are the surprising little things that are found. This is a note to Nixon from Elvis Presley with his phone numbers. He was offering to help combat drug abuse.


Had a great evening with a lot of Gregg's cousins from his mother's family that live in this area. Big group of us and we all had so much fun together, we are planning a McDonald family reunion in Iowa in August.


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