San Diego

Paul attended a convention in San Diego, California last week so Caitlin and I jumped at the chance to come down and meet him for the weekend. Missy also came with the boys and it was so fun having a little trip with the Turnbulls. We enjoyed the beautiful weather, hot tubbing almost every night, fun-filled jam-packed days and most of all, each other's company.
Thursday (2.3) we went to the San Diego zoo after Paul and Taylor had finished up at their convention. We got there around 3 PM not realizing that the zoo closes at 5 PM! So we had a mad-dash zoo experience, running around so we could see everything we wanted to. It was actually really fun and we still got to see pretty much everything. We saw the elephants, rhinoceros, bears, a gorilla (it walked right up to the glass and totally scared me! I literally screamed and looked away.) a panda, camels, giraffes, and the boys saw the tiger (they had to climb up on the fence to see it because it was already put away for the night). We saw some other animals too and had a great time. The kids loved all the the animals. After the zoo we went to Cheesecake Factory for dinner.  

 

 

 

Friday we visited Coronado Island (i'm not sure of it's actually an island) and found a 100+ year old hotel to stay in, which was an adventure. Then we got lunch and headed to the beach. That area is so beautiful, lots of old houses and buildings and beautiful scenery. Caitlin was asleep for the first little bit and then woke up to enjoy the beach. She loved it! This little girl loves being outside in the sunshine. She liked sinking her feet in the sand and looking around. Towards the end it was getting a little cold and windy so she had a melt down but the actual beach time was good. It was really fun to take her and she looked so darling in her new little ballerina swimsuit! That night we walked around town a little then went to dinner.

 

 

Saturday we went to Sea World! It as so much fun. We went to three shows and lots of exhibits. The kids all loved it. We saw Shamu, sea lions, dolphins, birds an pilot whales in the shows and sharks, fish, polar bears, turtles, beluga whales, and a few others in the exhibits. This day was the warmest and it felt so good to be outside in it. Taylor and Missy both literally got attacked my seagulls during lunch.. they were fearless! The kids saw things they had never seen before and were all bewildered and very tired by the end of the day. That evening Turnbulls started heading back (driving) to Utah and we switched hotels to downtown, closer to the airport. That night we went to Roy's for dinner and it was so delicious. Our food was fantastic, but the chocolate souflee -- heavenly. On our way back from the restaurant we rode in one of those bike-pulled carts. Paul really wanted to so we found one and the guy that took us was really funny... VERY talkative and breaking all kinds of traffic rules as he was telling us how strict they are with tickets.

 

 

 

 

 

 Sunday was a long, but turned into a fun, day. Originally we were supposed to fly out of San Diego at 9 AM, short layover in Phoenix, and be home by 2 PM. We got to the airport with more than enough time to find that because of fog, our flight was delayed. It ended up being delayed about 1.5 hours, and we completely missed our flight out of Phoenix. Obviously we had to catch a later flight so we decided to make the most of it and not leave Phoenix til 7 PM that night so we could go hang out with Jeff, Melissa and Madison during the day. And then we were so lucky because it just so happened that Lorraine and Rebekah were there visiting too! They were nice enough to come pick us up from the airport then we got to have dinner and hang out with them and even watch the first half of the super bowl before going back to the airport. It was so fun to see all of them, I'm so glad our crazy flight schedule worked out for the best! We got home around 10 PM.

 

It was a really great trip, the perfect getaway. I'm so glad we got to go, although it definitely made me anxious for warm weather to come!