Sunny San Diego

Summer is here and our vacation started as soon as school was out! Actually, we left on the last day of school. It wasn't planned that way - we booked our tickets and hotels months ago - but our school year was extended a day because of a "flood day". Only in Houston....

Anyway - we started our 12 day vacation in Sunny San Diego. Our plane landed on Thursday, June 4th at 10:30. We got our rental car and were on the beach by 11:30 am. We wandered around, found a hole-in-the-wall place called "Zo Zo's Pizza" for lunch. It was awesome! The weather was chilly, even slightly cold. We had reservations for a "surfing" lesson at 2:00 at the Wave House. This place was so amazing! Watching others surf and boogie board was kind of scary...but wearing a wetsuit in front of all the onlookers was even scarier! But...I survived. The wetsuit kept us warm and we had a blast! Bill and Matt really got the hang of it. I stayed on the boogie board :) After our surfing session, we headed over to La Jolla and rented two kayaks. We took those boats out into the Pacific Ocean!! It was so intense. Jack and I had a kayak and Bill and Matt had one. We paddled out to the 7 Caves of La Jolla where hundreds of sea lions just lounge on the rocks. We paddled about 15 feet from there. They just laid there and watched us. We took gobs of pictures, but they are on one of those waterproof cameras that we actually have to get developed. I'll post those pics later. Then we paddled to where these gorgeous orange fish just swim all under you. They were so pretty. After that, we paddled over to where 8 foot leopard sharks gather. We were sad that we couldn't find them...Matt was not sad that we couldn't find them :) We ended that day with dinner at Jeff's Burgers where Jack swears he ate "the best bacon cheeseburgers and fries in his entire life!" Bill and I think he was just really really hungry. We checked into our hotel and slept pretty soundly.

Friday morning came early and we headed to the San Diego Zoo! It's just as amazing as you have been told. The animals were so alert and entertaining. I suppose the weather makes them want to be outside as well. We saw the entire zoo by 4:00 pm. We were exhausted...but the day wasn't over. We headed over to a Railroad Museum on our list, but it had closed early. We were bummed, but we went next door to the San Diego Museum of Natural History. We imagined we were in the movie "Night at the Museum". It was fun. I drank the biggest Mocha Iced Coffee in my life. We went to In N Out Burger for dinner and headed back to our hotel.

Saturday morning started us at the Harbor. We took a boat cruise around the San Diego Harbor. It was amazing! We learned a lot about the history of the harbor and saw some incredible ships and piers. Again...the weather was perfect! After the cruise, we headed over to the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park. This was similiar to the Zoo, but the animal were roaming more together. We took the train tour around the Heart of Africa and saw some really cool animals. There were lots of new babies at the park...that was fun to see. After the animal park, we headed over to Legoland. Legoland is geared more for younger kids, but we sure did enjoy all those giant sculptures made out of legos. Jack thought it would be cool to have that job!

That was our 3 days in San Diego. We packed as much as we could in those 3 days....but it was amazing and indescribable. Next stop is Los Angeles. I'll post about it soon. Hope ya'lls summer is going great!