At the end of July we ventured to California for a vacation with the two boys. We decided to just have 5 days away with 3 full days of activity in San Diego. Our first day was Sea World then the Zoo then a day on the beach. We don't have any pictures from the beach because we have a new camera and I wasn't going to chance taking it where there is sand and water. We had a great time with the boys and I know it was memorable for them.
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| Eating ice cream at Ghirardelli |
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| Enjoying the fishies at Sea World |
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| Mommy and Henry on the sky tram at the San Diego Zoo |
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| Playing on the Hippo |
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| Heading up another hill at the Zoo |
Most of the pictures are of all the animals we saw, so, I won't bore you with those. But, we saw some incredible animals including killer whales, pandas, polar bears, giraffes, and flamingos to name some favorites of the boys. It was an adventure to travel with the boys. Henry doesn't like planes anymore than cars, so, thank goodness it was only a two hour flight each way. We were also naive in thinking just because we had two little boys didn't mean we couldn't eat at the restaurants we wanted. We headed in to
Lou & Mickeys after a very long day at Sea World. As soon as we were being taken to our table Henry wet his diaper and it leaked all over me. So, Henry and I smelled like urine through dinner, very classy. Then Henry refused to sit in his chair and I got to eat a fabulous steak with him on my lap. We gave up on the nice restaurants after that and we ate pizza and fried fish. C'est la vie! We also of course enjoyed the side effects of sharing a hotel room together. We could either go to bed with them at 8:00 pm, keep them up late so they were monsters the next day or lay in the dark awake. We chose to go to bed with them at 8:00 pm. Normally we would head to dinner at 8 on vacation...how kids change things! We did discover
Pinkberry and visited there more than once. We also were happy to find out Henry did well being in a stroller all day long, that was a blessing. Andrew just loved the ocean and couldn't get enough of the waves and seashell hunting. Henry was very afraid of the ocean at first, but, by the end of the day he was scaring me just running in to it without a care in the world.
The trip was a success and we realized the vacation was really for the two boys not really for the two of us. Now that we know family vacation isn't really a vacation we will plan our time off more accordingly to give ourselves some break time somewhere. Ryan and I are heading for a long weekend to Austin, TX for the Wyoming v. Texas football game soon, sans kids, so that will be relaxing.
3 comments:
Did you get to go to the NAT for the dinos. I think they have a pretty good exhbit there?
Sounds like it was a fun trip!
No, I didn't realize they had a good dino exhibit there. We'll have to remember that one for next time:)
How fun! I've been wanting to go to San Diego for a while. Mike got to go there last year for his brother's wedding when I was 38 wks pregnant. I was bummed the rest of us couldn't go. Glad you had fun!
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