Our Adventure

We left after church on Sunday and started on our journey. If we knew what was going to go down this trip we would have stayed home. :) We started out in really bad traffic for A VERY LONG WAY. What should have taken us about five hours ended up taking us eight. GiGi hates being in the car and so it was fun to hear her cry. Thankfully I have very loving girls that try to make her happy when she is sad. We stopped in Victorville for some food and ate on the way. We stayed in La Jolla and we arrived sometime around 9. Straight up to our room and to bed we went.

At 1am I was woken up by a little someone throwing up. Ty threw up all over herself and the unlucky child in the middle of the bed, Annie. While I bathed two tired little girls, Dan cleaned up the mess on the bed without waking up the other two who slept through it all. I went to the front desk for some new bedding and we had Annie sleep on the floor and we moved Jo Jo and Ty to the other bed. When the new bedding came, Dan and I made the bed and fell fast asleep.

Monday morning we woke up and got ready to go. We found us a dry cleaner (for later), found a target so we could buy a sweater for Ty and Gemma since I forgot to pack them, and then went on our way to the San Diego Zoo. I never got around to buying our tickets before we left and so we had to wait in line for those, but it went by pretty quick. We loved this zoo. I have only been to Hogle Zoo and this one is 100 times better.

Some of the animals we saw...

GiGi was a pill a lot of the time. She didn't want to ride in the stroller, she wanted to be held. She was also funny when we went up to an animal that she didn't like. When we got to the Rhino, she was not liking it at all.

Zoo from Tiffany on Vimeo.

I think this picture is so funny. See that little boy? ha ha ha

See this cup?

Dan says that he is going to keep it forever, because it cost him $5. I love this guy!

We had a blast!

After a fun, full day at the zoo, we left. On our way out we got our only pic of the whole family at the entrance.

We hit up the Laundromat on our way back to the hotel. There is a Vons next to the laundromat and so we bought some detergent and started our washing. While we were waiting (kids watching a movie), Annie got stung by a bee. Twice. It is our first with bee stings and she didn't take it too well. So off to Vons Annie and I went. We bought some baking soda so we could get it on the stings. She whined pretty much the rest of the time we waited. Then when we were just about done, our car battery died. There was only one other person around and she didn't have jumper cables, so back to Vons Dan went. He got back just when the lady was leaving and we were able to get her to give us a jump. When the laundry was done we grabbed some sandwiches and went back to the hotel.

I was again woken up around 2am, but thankfully it was only because Ty didn't have any blankets.

Tuesday morning we packed up our stuff...

and headed to IKEA. Yay! It has been forever since I have been there. Vegas really needs to get on the ball! After IKEA, we went to the beach, had a potty accident with Ty (OH MY GOSH!!), had lunch which ended up being awful,

and played in the water. Ty threw up (again) in the sand, and she somehow thought that she couldn't get in the water. So she just played in the sand. Of course their are no pics. After playing there for a bit, we changed our clothes and then jumped in the car for our journey home. This time we were able to get home quickly. The only problem we had was GiGi crying (she does not like being in the car, but that isn't anything new).

For all the bad that we had on this trip, we did have some good moments. It was a trip that I won't forget!!

California

Sunday night we decided that we should take a little trip since the girls didn't have school Monday or Tuesday and Dan is now on a new schedule. We got online and booked us a room in Redondo Beach and Monday morning we took off.
This is actually the first vacation trip that we have taken with just our family and with us not going to visit family.

We got down there in the afternoon and checked into our room. We then went to Target because we forgot a few things. By the time we got back we didn't have time to do much and so we took a walk down the the beach and then to eat at Joe's Crab Shack. The girls had their first taste of crab legs and fell in love with it.

After dinner we went back to the hotel and attempted to go swimming, but it was an outdoor pool, it wasn't the warmest night, and Ty fell down and so we just said that we would go later. We went to our room and watched some TV and went to bed.

We got ready and headed out to go to the beach. It was a lot of fun and the girls said that they want to go to the beach all the time.

After some time at the beach we drove on down to Long Beach and went to the aquarium. I really enjoyed it and the crazies had a blast. Can you believe that Jo Jo and Annie even touched some sharks? It took a lot of coaxing, but they did it. And Jo Jo touched some Jellyfish. What brave kids I have!

When we were done with the aquarium, we walked around outside.

After a day of fun, we got in the car for the drive home. Of course we hit traffic and so it took us a lot longer to get home, but we made it!
It was a very short, but very fun getaway.
A much needed getaway.