Wow! It's been a long time!

The last time I wrote on this blog was a few weeks ago and I was getting my family ready to go to San Diego. Can I just say We had a BLAST. Bill was going for work so that meant if the rest of us were going to do anything it was up to me to get there! Now if you know me you'll now that I am not adventerous on my own and that means having someone else with me that might be able to help direct me. Since I am the only other driver /adult in the car it was up to me to get us anywhere. The first day I thought that surely I'd be able to get us to the beach the directions looked easy enough and Bill had already taken us to the proximent area. My new car also has a GPS so I thought for sure I could get there. But when I went to input the beach it wouldn't come up not even as a area attraction (come on who doesn't want to go to the beach if your on vacation?) so I told the kids, get in, sit down, buckle up, cause I'm not sure where we'll end up we're going on an adventure! I took the directions from the hotel and I followed them perfectly until it said follow the rollercoaster which I did but I couldn't get to it. I must have driven in a 3-4 mile circle 4-5 times. I finally stopped and asked someone. I was not following the right coaster it was up and over the hill. duh I couldn't see the thing. so after about 30 mins we were at the beach. Tanner had brought his boogie board so he and Landon were going to share. ( ha ha ha) They had a really good time and I proceeded to sunburn the top of my feet. I think I do that every year. (slow learner) we stay there till its time to get Bill picked up. We come back to the beach after and go have dinner at a nice mexican restuarant. Overall we had a great day! Day 2 I get up and get ready and take Bill to work and I come back and get the kids up and going. We are off to Sea World one of my favorite places I pretty much know where this is from day one's drive. We get there in under 10 min. We go see it all we had to sit in all the "Soak Zones" for all the shows. I am seriously sloshing in my shoes and I am drenched from head to toe. I LOVE the Shamu show! it just makes me smile about 20 years ago when Bill asnd I went I was picked from the audience so go be a helper during the show! It was a blast! I think the kids really liked Sea World maybe not as much as I do but they had a good time. We was not home in time to pick up Bill so he rode the train back and we picked him up at the train station. After that we went to eat at yet another mexican place. had a fun time. Day 3 went back to the beach there was a rip tide that day and they had to keep moving us down the beach/ocean there was also a Wave House located on the beach that you could surf/boogie board on fake waves. Landon and Tanner wanted to try. so we set a time to do that from 1-2 and Tanner really got into it and was able to do a few minor tricks. Landon just kept hurting his knee so he quit for awhile. he eventually went and tried again. I took pictures, that is always my job! Day 4 off to the San Diego zoo. 1st I stopped at subway to pick us up some lunch to take with us to keep in a cooler. Sea World about broke me for lunch $40.00 I didn't want to repeat that. and off we went. (Can I just say that other than the 1st day I haven't got lost once, that is great for me, I know I owe all the credit to the GPS but I think it still counts) any way we get to the zoo and it's huge and very nice it has a lot of shade and the exhibits are really BIG we saw all the animals and even though it was only in the 80's it felt a lot hotter than that. by about 12:00 we are ready to eat so we head back to the gate and get stamped so we can get back in and head for the car to eat. We stayed at the car for about 30 mins. then head back in. We think because it is lunch time that this weould be a good time to head the the bus tour and we were right we got right on unlike earlier where there was about a 2 hour wait. The tour lasted about 30-45 mins. after that we had seen the whole zoo minus the shows I think the kids were to hot and tired to care so we left and went and picked up Bill. That night Bill's work had a big dinner party at the park they had tons of games and stuff to do. They even a fortune teller I waited in line for that for almost 2 hours. She told me that in two years I would change jobs and companies (I don't think so) she told Bill the same thing other she added that he was going to meet a new woman with red hair and green eyes and she would make him very happy.......Huh! good luck!
even the boys did it. Tanner is going to be a bike designer and Landon will live along time and be successful at whatever he chooses. We get back to the hotel late and hit the sack we will start the trek back home tomorrow. Day 5 get up early and get everything in car and start for home we make it to Las Vegas where we stop to look around and have dinner, we end up at California Pizza and hit the mall at Ceasars Palace. Find nothing that interests us. it's almost 8 PM we are planning on staying at the Virgin River in Mesquite. Once we hit the parking lot it was almost 9:45 I call a friend of mine that use to work with me, Cheryl and low and behold she was at ther Virgin River so we hurried and checked in then went down to meet up with her and her husband Ben. Talked with them for about 20 mins then off they went back home and I went and found the kids in the arcade and headed back to our room Bill stayed up until 2:00 playing 21. came out ahead by 20.00 Whoa! Meet Cheryl in the morning for breakfast. then went and seen her house. Very Nice. then off we start for our last leg of our journey. on our way home we seen a 4 wheeler trailer on fire, a car crash an another fire with a truck carrying new cars very eventful . Thank heavens nothing involved us. made it home right around 5:30PM. What a FUN FUN trip. Will have to catch you up on the following week another day. This is a lot for one entry.