San Deigo 2008

pic. 1 Riley with Mommy
pic. 2 Those crazy boys!
pic. 3 A kodak moment!!




pic. 1 Caleb celebrated his 6th Birthday here... ask daddy.
pic. 2 a day at the beach, it was cold
pic. 3 Where'd the surfers go?



pic. 1 Throwing something in the water
pic. 2 A fun rollercoaster ride!
pic. 3 Watching the seaworld show.




pic. 2 Boys playing at seaworld.
pic. 3 Flamingo exhibit at seaworld.


Pool time at the hotel.


The plane ride... probably the most exciting part of this whole trip! We started off VERY early on a Thurs. morning and arrived at the Surfer Beach Hotel in San Diego sometime around 1:00p.m. We actually 'missed' our flight because we missed the cutoff to check luggage by 10 min.!!! I was almost in tears. The whole morning was quite a fiasco! Our flight was scheduled to leave at 6:00a.m. We decided to leave the house at 3:00a.m. We arrived to check the car in at 3:45 and the shuttle was supposed to take us to the airport right away. Of course, it was a guy in a turban who could barely speak English and was running around in circles like a madman! Getting nervous after waiting for about 40 min., we finally made it into the van. Hold on, as we flew (I'm almost positive 60 mph.) down Seatac Blvd. Of course we had 2 car seats, 2 large pieces of luggage, 2 small, and we each had a carry on. Oh, and an umbrella stroller. That was even after downsizing everything into less bags! So, we got dropped off at the wrong side of the airport. I'm talking like the complete opposite side we needed to be on. We were so frazzled we didn't want to bother with getting a cart thing. Big mistake! Here we are, might I add, CRAMMED on a (thurs. morning?) intl. airport RUNNING with all of the luggage and car seats and pushing a stroller to the other side. Did I mention it was just Craig an I carrying all of that? And since we booked a connecting flight, it made things very difficult to use the automated check-in station. After some help and standing in line for 20 min. We were told we had to check our bags 40min. prior to boarding. It was already 6:00 and boarding started at 6:30. So, we missed by 10 sinkin minutes! Happy ending... we ended up getting a direct flight there! I just have to mention, how ridiculous it is to try and keep a 2 yr. old sitting the whole time when he knows how to unbuckle the belt! Benedryl did not work.

We stayed for 5 nights and 6 days. Just long enough. We hung out at the beach and visited Sea World and Lego Land-which was on Caleb's 6th Birthday! Courtney, Peter and Miss Savannah came and stayed a night with us too!

This was our 1st (and probably last for about 5 yrs.) big vacation as a complete family. We really had a great time and made a lot of fun family memories.

P.S. Benedryl did not work on the way home either!