San Diego Trip

Well we had our family vacation and gosh am I tired! lol. It was a total blast even if we did have to come home a night early (our campsite flooded out on Wednesday night... oddly enough we were the only ones who got hit when that pipe burst...).

Monday we headed down to San Diego and set up camp with my parents and brother Daniel at our "camp by the beach" site. (Unfortunately my other brother Michael had to work this week and couldn't join us but we did miss him). Our neighbors were all really nice and the kids enjoyed them and their bubbles. lol.

Ariana waiting to leave on our trip

Tuesday we went to the San Diego Zoo and boy was that a blast! Alex's favorite animal was the Panda, he still won't stop talking about it. Ariana fell in love with the hippo and the polar bear and Camden, well, he was awesome the entire time we were there and didn't fuss. Poor baby has allergies to something and his eyes flared up several times and red/watery. Ugh. We had a very fun time but gosh, no one warned me that the zoo is mostly on hills (and those strollers got *heavy*). The worst part was watching a heron sneak into the flamingo/duck pond and steal (eat) a baby duck. (Freaked us out, didn't let the kids watch that). My favorite was the girraffes and the grizzly bear that was running around like a mad man, the zoo workers were shocked to see that. My dad found a peacock wandered around and became friends with it, that bird was pruning his feathers for my dad and had them halfway up! Huge shock! Alex also loved the "scarlet macaw" which talked to him when he'd talk. (My theory is that Alex has a very high pitched voice and the bird liked it). It was funny, he'd talk and the bird was talking back to him, shocked me for sure!

Wednesday was hanging out and an awful puppet show at Balboa park. We toured an aviary (beautiful plants) and then left for lunch at a really good Mexican place and shopping. The kids were playing and Alex got a good cut on his head when he tripped and fell, they were once again playing with bubbles. lol. That night we had a smore roast with the neighbors, that was very nice and oh so yummy.

Thursday we woke up and our campsite had flooded. Odd thing was it was only our site, no one else was wet but a pipe had burst at the park across the road (part of the campgrounds) and it flooded us out. We could either move sites for one more night (what a pain) or just go home. They were willing to let us stay longer for free to make up for it but Ray's brother gets married Saturday so we had to just get our money back. I was really bummed out, we had been having a nice time and it ended very suddenly.

We headed to the Wild Animal park and toured that until we were so worn out we went home. (I am telling you, that park is all uphill also and shoot was that tough with the strollers. One incline in particular sucked only to find this sign at the top...

This means we already *saw* the lions at the bottom of this trail. Shoot huh? The tiger was hiding so the whole haul was a waste. Here are a few photos of our trip though, what a blast.

The lions were so close, it was amazing! (We should have known they weren't up at the other site by the way... duh!)

On second thought I'll get a slide show of the best photos going on here next week... that may be better. lol.