We had a nice long vacation weekend.
Ahh, the beauty of I-5,
Colby enjoying his first In-N-Out milkshake,
Until you hit S.CA and I-5 turns into this. We were stopped on the freeway at a standstill for about an hour while there was some hold-up for a murder suspect about 4 miles ahead of us. They stopped the freeway going both ways throughout the whole thing. The other side started up a bit before us, which was quite a tease. Our side going South took a lot longer to get started, since the suspect's car was still in lane 2, which we all got to stare at while passing. Ugh.
My goodness, we must have saints for kids ;) We left at 10am on Thursday and didn't get to Coronado until 10pm. We were doing fine and actually only took two breaks. One for In-N-Out and one for gas, which only took 10 minutes tops. The boys didn't complain, drive us crazy, or even make much of a peep about the drive.
Friday, Jackson got to see the elephants at the San Diego Zoo!! Haha, I know he doesn't look thrilled, but that's probably because I was bugging him watching them trying to get a picture.
We rode the double decker "Bertie" bus around the zoo. It was so great to see the animals from above and Jackson was thrilled to sit in the front on the top.
Saturday we watched both of the kid's baseball games, had a great lunch, and then went to Joe's Crab Shack for dinner for Elsa & Donnie's birthday. Jackson tried calamari, crab, and clams and liked them all!
The whale show at Sea World on Sunday. Oh how I miss when there used to be trainers in the actual show, it was so much better then! But, I still did get a bit teary. I couldn't help it while sitting there watching the boys watch the show and hearing all of the narration about the next generation.
Whoops, found out later you weren't supposed to take the starfish out of the water :)
Bacon-wrapped hot dog at Sea World. Yes, please!
Chocolate funnel cake, with strawberries, a la mode. And a margarita for us on the side,
As you can tell, our kids just love characters,
After our horrific drive down, we decided on Monday to split up the drive, by going that day to Disneyland! What a pleasant, make me happy, decision. We aren't planning to go back to Disneyland until Colby passes his 'terrific' twos, so it was nice to get one day with him as an easy guy in. He is SUCH an easy guy at the moment.
Seeing your child's name stitched in cursive on Mickey ears has to be one of the best things ever!
Could eat him up,
Jackson was such a different kid this time at Disneyland. We waited 45 minutes (which was the longest line in the whole park, it was such a quiet day) for Splash Mountain because Jackson just
had to go on it after he saw it. Surprisingly, he is 41 inches tall and made the height-limit. He easily waited in line and wasn't even scared after seeing the huge drop. Such a change from a year ago when he could barely wait 10 minutes in a line!
We ate dinner at Big Thunder Ranch Barbecue. Family & cowboy-style rib BBQ. It was so great to sit, relax, and have dinner brought to us after day 3 of walking! Colby loved it all,
We stayed at Ramada Inn Maingate, where I always stay with my family, and Donnie and I have stayed once before. Donnie and Jackson went swimming when we got home, and Colby and I sat on the floor and shared our caramel apple. He was so darling and happy.
At the same In-N-Out on the way home.
We had a great vaca! Everybody probably has 5lb to lose after the weekend, but ehh, as it should be after a great vaca.
