What a trip! We just got back from our 4 day family vacation down to beautiful San Diego. Even growing up in Southern California we don't have many opportunities to go down south. We thought it would fun to take the kids down there and enjoy the sun, the Zoo and Shamu! We stayed at the beautiful Marriott hotel & marina (thank you Jake for the hook-up) and spent our first full day there at the Zoo. There we saw everything from Elephants and Hippos to monkeys and alligators. It was BLAZING hot though so we tried our best to keep cool. Afterwards we would go back to the hotel for an late afternoon swim then eat dinner and then John would take the kids back again for a night time swim while I got Brock to sleep and read. Friday we met up with Wendy, Jake and the kids at Sea World. We were geared up for another Hot day. We started with the Shamu show. Nice! Those whales are amazing! Owen would say "BIG FISH!" There we enjoyed the sea otters the sharks and a Sea Lion show. The park was so big it was hard to get it all done in just one day. So back to the hotel for swimming and food and then more swimming. Saturday we flip-flopped and did all our swimming first and then the second half of Sea World in the afternoon. Man it was HOT, but the kids enjoyed themselves and kept wanting more. After returning back we put the kids down early and John and I enjoyed some nice room service and peace and quiet all by ourselves. Ahhh.... 3 kids can be a challenge. We wanted to add the Natural History Museum (& The Dead Sea Scrolls) to our agenda - but we didn't dare with these rug rats - that's for another trip (w/o kids). All in all it was four fun days with the family!
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Looks like you guys did SD right. I want to go see the Dead Sea Scrolls with you guys. Let's plan it.
So fun. Looks like you had a successful trip, and even better that it is only an hour away, that is the way to vacation with kids. You are away, but if anything goes wrong you can skip back home. Glad you are back, let's hit up the pool this week!
Get Twilight yet?
Looks like you had a fun trip. Haven't seen you much this summer. Cannot wait to spend some time catching up.
Wow Jess! It sounds like you kept so busy and saw everything... our family should of spent more time down there growing up, that's for sure!
cute pictures....your kids looked like they had such a fun time! You may have scared me off from Sea World with the heat discussion. But I'm glad you got to take your summer trip!
That is my kind of trip! It's such a pain to do the whole plane, road trip kind of thing with three kids.
Cute kiddos!
i love san diego! glad you guys had a great trip! i am jealous! i want to go see a "big fish!" :)
Jealous you went somewhere this summer! We went NO WHERE!!!
Sounds like fun!!! I love Sea World. And the Zoo, and swimming, and staying in hotels, and babies that are good, and...you get the idea. I'm glad you got out of town for a bit. We missed you!
What a fun trip! I don't know why it is still weird when I see a picture of all 3 of your kids together. Three looks like a lot all of the sudden. It sounds like they all had fun.
Forgot to mention that I loved seeing the 97 cent pajamas on Paige! All Hail Old Navy!
I loved our trip to SD too, it's so close yet a getaway! Looks like you had fun. I am getting anxious to get out and about again, but I think the baby still needs some time away from crowds and people, so here I sit. I am going to read the twilight series though, I have been told about it several times and now am convinced I must read it.
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