Southern California Southern California Mini Trip Report- Holiday Time 2025

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Hello!

My family visited Southern California from Dec 25 2025- Jan 1 2026. Most of the trip was visiting family but I'll include some of the stuff we did here.

Ill include our time at a children's museum in Temecula, Old Town Temecula, Legoland, Little Tokyo in downtown LA and a children's museum in Pasadena.

Here we are at a diner in Burbank



Oh also we ate at a lounge in the airport thanks to my credit card so that was really cool. We've never done that before. It felt like we were on a cruise.



They had a buffet with two different shrimp dishes and salmon. They had an espresso machine and a fridge filled with cans of different drinks. Plus cookies and brownies. So this was our Xmas dinner since we flew out to CA Xmas night.

 

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Sat Dec 27- Old Town Temecula and Children's Museum

We got to the children's museum in Old Town Temecula about 10 minutes before they opened. The admission is for a 2 hr time block then they close to clean and then they do another 2 hr time block in the afternoon. There was a small line but not too bad.



The children's museum is themed kinda like a steam punk inventors house.



Incredibly different than any other children's museum I've ever been to. I enjoyed just looking at everything and taking it in. The same way I enjoy at Disney.







Anywhere that had a penny and a pickle tells the kids they should try to play with it to see what happens.

Most of the exhibits were somehow science related but my kids just liked running around, looking and playing.

 

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They had a scavenger hunt that DD6 did with DH and "uncle". While they did that DS3 and I watched live science demonstrations. I didn't take any pictures but it was pretty entertaining. They put stuff in the microwave that you're not supposed to. They did a volcano. They used a leaf blower to blow toilet paper on the audience. Plus a lot of other experiments.

DD6 also found the "hidden mouse" so she won a sticker.

 

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At one point I got tired so I got a coffee and drank it in the food area. The tables were cute.



They had riddles on the wall.



Overall best children's museum ever. If anyone has a children's museum they know about that is a little weird like this please let me know!

Next up walking around old town Temecula