The Friday of Father's Day weekend, we "had to" take the boat out on the river to make sure everything was in perfect shape for our camping trip the next weekend. It was such a perfect afternoon - warm and the kids were so excited to be on the boat again. Kadence calls it her boat. She'll ask you, "where's my boat?" It is the funniest thing. We've tried to tell her it's OUR boat, but she insists that it's her boat. Such a perfect kick off to our summer!
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Legoland - Day 4
We headed back to Legoland for our last day in San Diego. This time, we came prepared. After "designing" a new pair of sandals for little miss, we were successful with our mission and was able to "make up" that 1/2 in. that she needed to get on the rides. I won't divulge too much what we did, but I'll just say that it was very successful! Kadence was just ecstatic! Let me just say that it cost us $9 at Walmart but her happiness is so priceless!
Big boy driving:
Big boy driving:
Wildlife Safari - Day 3
Our 3rd day started out a little gloomy - we were supposed to head back to Legoland for the day, but the weather didn't cooperate and it was very cloudy and cool. We really wanted to enjoy the water park but since it was too cool for swimming, we decided to head to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Safari. I can't tell you which of the animals we saw were my favorites - I love them all! It is amazing to see huge rhinos so close by. I love giraffes and there were plenty of them there. And how can you not love those elephants?! I could've gone on that tram ride a few more times, but we were just too tired by the end of the day.
Legoland - Day 2
We spent our second day in San Diego ready to conquer Legoland. The kids were very excited and couldn't wait to get on the rides. Poor Kadence ended up being 1/2 in too short for the rides. She was very bummed - especially after she learned how to stand up tippy toes whenever they tried to measure her. Unbeknownst to me, Darin taught her how to try and fudge her height by standing tippy toes and talked to her about it. Although we made the best of it by taking her to the 2 & under area (which she loved), we were very bummed that she didn't get to ride with Aden.
We also spent the last couple of hours that day in their new water park, which we were very excited about. I could've stayed in the lazy river all day long - but the big hit is their "Orange Rush" where you ride in a raft down this huge slide. Darin & I took turns riding it with Aden (K is too small to ride) and I will always remember how hard Aden & I laughed & screamed the entire way down. It was so much fun.
Orange Rush video:
We also spent the last couple of hours that day in their new water park, which we were very excited about. I could've stayed in the lazy river all day long - but the big hit is their "Orange Rush" where you ride in a raft down this huge slide. Darin & I took turns riding it with Aden (K is too small to ride) and I will always remember how hard Aden & I laughed & screamed the entire way down. It was so much fun.
Orange Rush video:
Friday, July 1, 2011
San Diego Trip 2011
Before the summer craziness starts for us, we wanted to take a short trip to a fun place to commemorate Aden's 5th birthday and our last year of freedom from school obligations. We made him choose where he wants to go...I tried to convince him to go to Disneyland since we've never been, but he was adamant that he wants to go back to Legoland. Since we love San Diego so much, he didn't have to twist our arms! So, we packed up our "new one car" as Kadence calls it and headed south. The kids surprises me with every trip that we make. I was a little anxious about the 18 hour drive, but they did AMAZING. We left Portland at 5pm, after a long dinner/gas/pit stop in Medford, I took the 10pm-3am shift (which Darin said worked perfectly for him since I'm such a night owl!). He took over after that and drove us all the way to SD. We got there at 11am, with all the stops! Our kids slept through the night (they were both excited to sleep in the car, especially with the new neck pillow I made them), did activities/books and they were so well behaved and patient that we turned on the DVD on the last hour of the trip just to give them a reward for being so good! They just are the perfect travellers - they are so excited about the destination that no matter how long our journey is, they so appreciate it. We are one lucky parents!
Day One - San Diego Zoo:
Day One - San Diego Zoo:
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