San Diego

Here is my long overdue report of our trip to San Diego. It may have been the best trip I have ever been on. I have created a Top 10 of my favorite moments and things from our vacation. Here we go . . .

10. Eating out. I love to eat out. Mostly I love the fact that I didn't have to prepare or plan a meal for almost five days. We found a really fun restaurant at Seaport Village and enjoyed a bread bowl filled with clam chowder, yummy. Keith ordered onion rings for an appetizer, they were huge! I don't even like onion rings, but these weren't that bad.

P.S. You'll have to excuse all of the pictures of me in this post. You know how it is when you go on vacation with two people. . . you get a lot of 'one person' photos.

9. It's pretty bittersweet to go on vacation without your kids. I missed them like crazy but it was kind of nice to feel like a woman again, and not a mom for just a few days. Of course I told everyone about our kids and couldn't stop talking about them. I think it is good for Keith to spend time with his wife too. :)

8. The hotel! Since this was planned by Keith as a surprise, he got to choose the hotel. He chose The Hilton Resort and Spa on Mission Bay. It was fabulous. Honestly, staying in hotels is probably one of my favorite things ever, even if it is the Super 8 in Winnemucca (haha). We had a beautiful view of the bay and a king size bed. We made the mistake of only getting a queen size for our home (which is fine, except for when I double in size during pregnancy).

7. SeaWorld! Here we are in line for the 4D Sesame Street movie. I love the animals and the shows. We went on the Atlantis ride over and over and over and over and over again. We went home after we got too soaked to dry. One of the best things about vacationing with Keith is he doesn't feel the need to stay somewhere all day just because we paid for it. He says we should stay as long as we want and go home when we want to. I love that about him. There was probably less than 100 people there.

6. Visiting "San Diego's Best Donuts Shop." I wish I had a picture of this place. There was about five homeless people standing outside but we were starving and it was the only breakfast place we could find. The donuts were absolutely disgusting, but the chinese lady who ran it told me "she liked my face." I thought it was the funniest compliment I had ever gotten, at least I think it was a compliment. I have decided that I will now start telling people that I like their face. Keith couldn't stop telling me how much he "loved my face" that day.

5. The Zoo. I loved every second of the zoo, we stayed there the entire day. It was not crowded at all. I think it is funny when people take pictures of everything at the zoo. The monkeys were definitely my favorite, the snakes were definitely not.

4. Choosing the time that I woke up in the morning. We still woke up at 7:30, but there was a definite freedom in knowing that I could stay in bed longer. One day we forced ourselves to go back to bed and slept until 9:00. We felt pretty yucky that day. It was nice to remember that sleeping in isn't all it is cracked up to be.

3. I found a sweatshirt at Seaport Village that I could live in. I love it, I wore it almost the whole time because we didn't intend on it being as cold as it was. We also went shopping in a five story outdoor mall and found all kinds of goodies. . . a great pair of pants, a skirt, a cardigan, the list goes on and on. Oh yeah, and we were the only people older than 13 in the movie theatre when we went to see High School Musical 3. It was pretty entertaining, mostly just listening to all the girls sigh when Troy Bolton was on screen.

2. Spending time with my favorite person in the whole world, Keith. I love vacationing with him, he is the best. I still can't believe he took me on a trip for my birthday, he sure has a lot of tricks up his sleeve. We went ocean kayaking one day. I was so nervous, but I was totally calm once I knew I could be in the same kayak as Keith. I trust him completely. It was the best part of the trip by far. Sea lions popped up really close to our boat and we even saw sharks (not real scary ones, but sharks just the same). It was amazing.

1. Coming home to my boys! I think it is a good experience for them to spend time with their grandparents, aunts and uncles, and cousins without their mom. They were really good boys (at least that is what Mary told me). I love being all together as a family. I love being a mom. It is by far the greatest blessing in my life. It is always fun to go on vacation, but I love coming home.


What a wonderful vacation!