Last week we packed up the car and headed down to San Diego for a friends' wedding and a fun family trip! It was our first "high tech" trip, as we set off with a GPS and portable DVD player! We left at 5 in the morning and made it all the way to Santa Barbara before taking a break. We took highway 101 and there was a big tsunami warning, so there were hardly any cars on the road, and NO police (I think they were all busy keeping people off the beaches), so we made it pretty fast. In Santa Barbara we stopped at a park and played and played for about an hour and a half.
When we got to our hotel in San Diego we went straight to the pool. The kids were SO happy to be in the water. Seth kept telling us that he was a fish and he knew how to swim. When we would let go of him and let him sink under water, he would be smiling when we pulled him back up! Usually he said "that was fun" or "that was cool"!
The next day we went out to breakfast and then walked along to waterfront in downtown San Diego. Later that day, our wonderful friends Eric and Stacey babysat the kiddos while Carey and I went to a friends wedding. The kids had so much fun with uncle Eric and auntie Stacey (other than Seth screaming until he barfed...sorry about that Eric and Stacey), and Carey and I had so much fun at the wedding.
On Sunday we decided to go to the San Diego Zoo. We were all pretty tired, so we had more than our fair share of meltdowns, but it was still pretty fun. Eric and Stacey have year passes, so after they were done with church, they came and met us there. We had grand plans of all having dinner together that evening, which quickly dissolved as the kids melted down. We love you, Eric and Stacey, and wish we could have spent more time with you. Thank you so much for watching our kids!
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| Haley is on my back in the ergo, so you can hardly see her! |
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| Checking out the rhino, which was definitely a favorite! |
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| We rode on the top of the double decker bus. The kids pretty much just wanted to stay on it for the rest of the day! |
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| We loved watching the monkeys. Unfortunately for Seth, he slept through that part! |
We had a fun time in San Diego, and little did the kids know, there was more fun to come. The day after we went to the zoo, we left San Diego to surprise the kids with three days at Disneyland. (I will post about Disneyland as soon as I can get the "surprise" moment off the video camera...the cord seems to be lost!)
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| On the balcony of our hotel room in San Diego |
how fun!
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