Day 2: Spontaneity at its best

Ah! Internet that doesn't cost $12 like it did at the Westin!

Our daily summary:
- Despite late night playing in hotel room with Kelsey and Morgan, Tobey and Eli still wake up at 7:30AM.
- Since there's not "lobby breakfast" at the Westin, we have a nice breakfast at Corner Bakery.
- Church with my brother and family. It was HOT today -- high of 98!
- Lunch at Souplantation (like Fresh Choice) for something healthy -- don't know if they have these on the East Coast. Kids had a fun time playing.
- Drive to San Diego, both kids konk out within minutes.
- Stay at my cousin's cool modern house (designed by my other cousin, his sister), over looking a nature preserve and the ocean.

Perhaps crazier than going on this cross country drive at all is going without a plan. We have an idea of what we want to see and which towns we might want to stop at. But we are throwing caution to the wind and playing things by ear. Or as our Type A friend's old to-do list once said, "Be more spontaneous."

So this morning Tom flips on the TV for the kids in the hotel while we pack up to go. On the Travel Channel was a special on Disney World. Some of Tobey's school friends (the girls) have gone to Disneyland already because of the lunch with princesses, etc. But since that obviously is not a draw for us, I never really considered DL. Legoland was much more up our alley (and on our agenda tomorrow!).

But after seeing that show, Tom caught the bug. I believe "magical" was the adjective he used. Kathleen (sister-in-law) didn't help either -- she said that when people find out that we're from CA, they're going to ask, "Have you been to Disneyland?" But when I said that Florida has Disney WORLD, she said, "Yeah, but it all started here!" Plus, they can meet us with their annual pass and the cousins can play together again.

So now we are seriously considering going to Disneyland. After Legoland. And yes, neither are getting us any closer to Boston. But we've got three weeks to get across and the unplannedness of our trip was supposed to allow spur of the moment decisions like this.

So our current thoughts...

Monday, Legoland
Tuesday, drive from SD to Anaheim and do DL for half a day
Wednesday, all day Disneyland
Thursday, finally start driving closer to Boston, at least a little

We might even be on the right part of Route 66 when the Fun Run occurs.

I must say though that this living day by day is tiring. We need to think ahead and research well after the kids have gone to sleep. We're researching Disney tickets now and will need to do hotels tomorrow. And we will need to think ahead for our first stops on Route 66. But then again, had we made hotel reservations on Route 66 (before this morning, I thought getting on Route 66 by Tuesday was a sure thing), we'd be up late changing them anyway.