California adventures!

We had a great family trip to San Diego this past week. Jody and the kids got to Escondido on Monday and right away went swimming with the cousins. They had pizza, Tyler's favorite meal, and then swam some more at Jody's sisters house. All I heard about was Tyler and Caleb doing cannonballs off of a 6 foot ledge into the deep end of the pool. I had to get that on video when I got there and we put it on the page to prove it. Tuesday was more of the same just swimming at Jody's parents and then dinner. I flew in on Tuesday night and we woke up Wednesday morning and headed to the beach in Oceanside. It was a blast swimming in the waves and building sand castles. I love the beach more than the rest of the family but all still had fun. We then headed to Sea World for an all day adventure with a group of about 30. We saw the Shamu show, the Dolphin show, the Sea Lions, well instead of listing all the shows I will just say we saw them all. I think the Shamu show was the big hit amongst the kids. We managed to stay out of the soak zone for all the shows so no one got wet. I highly recommend the frozen lemonade if you are ever there, it was good! We stayed that night and saw the Shamu Rocks show which was really cool and then they had a fireworks show at the end. Anna fell asleep on Grandpa and missed the whole show and Tyler and Caleb just held out long enough to see it. The next day we went back to Sea World and got to do the awesome roller coaster Journey to Atlantis. Tyler went with mom and they got soaked because the ride stopped right under a soaker and they had to sit there for a few minutes. Tyler was really brave to go on this ride. I went with Anna and we had such a good time, she was really brave as well. We did not get very wet but it was so much fun. We saw the Cirque de la mer show which was really funny and the kids liked the guys and girls flipping into the water. I can't forget the blast that they had in the Sesame Street Bay of Play. The got there swim suits on and played in the water, climbed the rope latter and went down slides. They rode the tea cups and some boat ride. Saturday we headed to Alpine to Jody's brothers house for a BBQ before heading back to AZ. We had a little trouble with our A/C in the car but got that fixed in town while we ate. All in all it was a great family trip and one for the memory books.