Well it has been a long time. I decided to try and see if my blog would let me download and post a new post because last time I tried it wouldn't let me and it said that I needed to pay to do it. Well I tried it and it worked and I didn't have to pay anything. I know that it isn't alot and it would be worth it to pay it but I just never got around to do it and so here I am trying it now and just so you know that if it said that I had to pay I would have payed but so far I don't have to. Anyway I am back and I am glad.
I am going to start off with our Spring break trip. Well this year we hadn't really planned on going anywhere big this year because we went to Disneyland last year and when we were there the kids kept on asking if we could go and swim at the pool. Well anyway we thought we would just do some day trips around our area for spring break, well then we though maybe we would take the kids San Diego and go to Sea World, San Diego Zoo and the Safari Park. So when we were talking about it I looked to see how much it would cost for us to go. Well we had originally started out by talking about driving there and then I got to thinking that if we drove we really wouldn't be able to spend alot of time in the area if we drove. So we decided to use some of our flight miles and fly us all there. I am really glad that we did, it was much easier. The only draw back is that our flight coming home left at like 8 in morning which meant we needed to leave the hotel no later then 6.
Well we had alot of fun and the kids had alot of fun and Larry and I love it there and we would move there if we could but we probably won't ever leave Washington because it doesn't make sense for us to. Well like I said we had a great time I took a ton of pictures but I only posted a few because there were so many I didn't want to go through all of them.
We started our first full day at Sea World. We were able to walk there from our hotel, which was nice. Zach really wanted to see the sharks and Madison wanted to see the Shamu show and so we just saw everything.
This walrus was disgusting it was eating it's food but the thing is is that it was sucking it's food in and then spitting it back out against the glass. I don' know why it was doing that.
Carson obviously didn't want his picture taken because the sun was in his eyes
Sitting eating some lunch while waiting for the Shamu show
We fed the sting rays, well I fed one because a gentleman beside us was nice enough to see if we wanted to try and feed one so I did and it was a little weir if you haven't ever fed one because it kind of just sucks it out of your hand.
Brothers holding hand while we are going in to see the sharks
Zach and Madison went on a ride and so Carson didn't want to go so we waited. Larry was trying to find Carson some ice cream.
Larry, Madison and Zach wanted to go on this ride and they were dry right here.
Until someone decided they were going to spry them. They were soaked after this ride.
This is the view from our hotel.
This is to the right of us.
This is to the left of us. We always had some chilly weather in the morning due to the marine layer that comes in at night but once it burns off it is nice.
On the second day we decided to go and tour the U.S.S Midway. We didn't think the kids would be that interested in it but they loved it we were there for a good three hours I think.
They had an audio tour that the kids could do and they answered questions and then at the end of the tour they could go and hand in the answers and get their wings. I thought it was pretty cool.
They got their wings.
The third day we went to the Zoo. It was very cool of course. Carson was telling his the whole time we were at the zoo that he wanted to see the turtles. We eventually made it to the turtles and now he says he wants a turtle for his birthday. I don't know about that.
We rode this across the park.
Half way through our time at the zoo Carson was running down hill of course and fell on the bumpy cement and cut his knee pretty good and so the rest of the time he basically spent his time like this. Not really smiling. I felt bad he fell but we had been telling him not to run and then he does that.
On our fourth day we went to the Zoo Safari Park. It is alot like the regular zoo but you get more of the Safari experience though and see the wild animals a little better.
We took a tram and they took us around the park. You could pay to get a real experience and go in and fee the giraffe's and stuff but we didn't want to pay for all of us to do that.
I tried to get Carson in this picture but he wouldn't instead.......
he was doing this.
On our way home from the Safari Park we decided to stop in Old Town and look around there. While we were there we saw the Mormon Battalion and did the tour there, it was really neat the kids really liked it as well.
On our last day we decided we would go and just see Coronado Beach. We had never been there and so we decided to go. It is a great beach. The kids loved the sand and if I had planned it better we would have stayed the whole day there but we didn't.
This is an amazing hotel and one day Larry and I are going to stay here, just Larry and I though.
I didn't plan on the kids getting wet but Zach got soaked and I didn't bring any other clothes for him so he had to walk around with wet clothes. Oh well, we told him not to get wet.
