San Diego

The kids had a four day weekend, so we decided to go on a little mini vacation to San Diego.  You can take the boy out of the airline, but you can't take the airline out of the boy.  We always said we would continue traveling after we moved and we've done a pretty good job sticking to that.  Unfortunately we don't have the flexibility that we used to and we actually have to pay for our tickets so the traveling is just a little different now.  Like instead of going where we really want to go, we go where there are inexpensive tickets.  Luckily when flying out of Colorado there are several good options of places to go.

We flew in Friday afternoon, took the kids for burgers and milk shakes and didn't stay out too late.  Due to the time change they woke up super early on Saturday which allowed us to eat breakfast and still get to the gates of Legoland before it opened.  We have been to Legoland before, a few years ago when I was only a few months pregnant with Amanda, but our family dynamics has changed a bit.  Now Andy and Sarah wanted to go on the roller coasters, and Amanda wanted to keep up but she either wasn't tall enough or wasn't old enough.  Yes, you heard me, old enough.  They have crazy rules for just about every ride at Legoland, and on several of the bigger rides you not only had to be 36 or 42 inches tall, you also had to be at least 4 years old.  So even though she was tall enough to go on, she wasn't old enough.  We had tears within an hour of entering the park because Andy and Sarah got to go on something she couldn't.  Poor kid.  We still had a good time and split up for about an hour so I could take Andy on the biggest roller coaster and Charlie could do something else with the girls.  The best part was that the park was only open until 5 p.m. so we stayed all day, went out to dinner and still got the kids to bed by 9 p.m.

The next day we went to SeaWorld.  Some of our friends from Dallas were also in San Diego for the weekend so we spend most of the day with them which was a lot of fun since I have been so homesick for our friends.  We split up some, but did shows together and had lunch and afterwards went to dinner.  Again the park was only open until 6 p.m. so we could go all day but still be back before midnight.

Yesterday we didn't have much planned but our flight didn't leave until around 4 p.m. so we went and had a nice breakfast near the beach and then took the kids to a park so they could use up some energy before the flight home.  It was a gorgeous day and fun to spend some time outside as a family.

Overall, a great weekend.  It was hard to get back into the swing of things this morning.  Charlie had an early flight for a day trip, Sarah had therapy at 7 a.m. and Andy had a before school activity at 7:45 a.m.  I wasn't sure we were all going to make it today but all is good.