Xmas in Cali, Day 1

Christmas means the annual Huang family trip to California.  We had done presents on Christmas Eve, so the kids spent Christmas morning playing with toys while the grown-ups made final travel preparations.  Asher didn't sleep during his nap time, which did not augur well for the rest of our day.  Sure enough, he was bouncing off the walls (more figuratively than literally) on the flight, with our nerves retained only by the heroic efforts of several very kind flight attendants.  Other highlights from our travel day were: getting retained at security because of baby food pouches (and then having the trainee mess up the test, requiring the supervisor to come and yell at her and retest the pouches, at which point we were so delayed that we literally had to run to the gate and made the flight with about two minutes to spare(whew!)), loading all our people and stuff into the rental car only to find that we couldn't locate the car keys and had to unload and reload into a car that had keys (argh!), and arriving at our hotel and realizing the room was a lot bigger than we thought (yay!).  No supermarkets were open on Christmas evening, except for a big Chinese grocery story that we hit on the way to the hotel, with about 30 minutes to spare before it closed, so we were able to commandeer some fruit, milk, and pastries for everyone's rumbly tummies.  We finally got everyone to bed around 10 (of course our bodies think it is 1 in the morning, which is way late for us).