San Diego

SAN DIEGO VACATION JUNE 2011

The beginning of June we went to San Diego for 5 days. Reyn had his 17 day break so the first few days we hiked Havasupai, then went to San Diego. It was so nice to be there to relax and enjoy our time as a family. We didn't get to play in the ocean and we actually didn't go to the beach much at all. We arrived Monday mid afternoon and it was sunny and beautiful. The rest of the week was overcast, June gloom. We were just grateful for the weather, it wasn't 110 like it was here at home. So even though we didn't get in the water or become beach bums we still really really enjoyed our time there. :)











We went to the Mormon battalion museum in Old Town. Royce working the water.


My first hat ever. I really like it. :) I also like this picture of Royce and I.

Attempting a family photo ha. We just had my phone and just us to get the picture.

Birch aquarium. Kind of a funny story about this. Reyn parents mentioned coming here with us. So we all loaded up in our truck and we headed out to Birch Aquarium. When we pulled up Reyn's dad said "OK we'll let you out here" Reyn said "OK we'll get out and you will go park the truck?" And Doug said "oh we didn't tell you, your mom and I aren't going in, we are dropping you guys off and taking your truck to go shopping." Reyn and I were like "WHAT?!" It was their idea to have us come to the aquarium and they just dump us off. haha. So we went inside and they left, they told us we could call as soon as we were done and they'd be 15 mins away to come get us. Well we walked through the whole thing. There were a ton of kids there, must have been a field trip or something. So Royce wanted to be held the whole time and wasn't being much fun for us. Royce whined most of the time we were there. I think there was just too many kids there and they were extremely loud and EVERYWHERE. So Royce was clinging to Reyn for dear life.

I took a few pictures of the different fish and sea creatures in their aquariums. I liked this aquarium because of all the bright colorful fish. It is amazing all the different shapes, colors and sizes of fish that exist.

NEMO!

Some sea horses.

All Royce wanted to see was some sharks. There were signs for a shark exhibit and when we walked around to it, there wasn't anything there. Reyn went to ask and they didn't want to give him a straight answer. He said "where is the shark exhibit" and the lady said "oh there were some sharks in the aquariums". he said "well there are signs for an actual shark exhibit" and she said "oh that is closed til next month." So Royce was sad, we were disappointed. There was a little hands on area in the back, where you can hold the sea creatures or touch them. Royce didn't want anything to do with that. He was still crying and mad that we didn't see any sharks. Poor kid. Oh well now we can say we've been to Birch aquarium and we will probably never go back again.

Royce waiting for grandma and papa to come back and get us. Which ended up being a lot longer than 15 minutes haha. Oh well the weather was beautiful and we did have a good time seeing all the different kind of sea creatures. Makes me more afraid of the ocean haha. I was just happy to get to spend time with Reyn and have the 3 of us hanging out as a family.

Royce running down the pier. He is growing up so fast! We are grateful for Reyn's parents for letting us come stay with them for the 5 days. We really enjoyed the vacation. It is always so good to spend time together as a family. With Reyn in school we don't see much of each other. So any time together is precious time.