San Diego - Day 4

I've gotten a little behind on my posting and now I have to remember what happened on day 4 and 5 before moving on to 6. Is that right 6 days? yep, i guess so.

...today the plan was to hit the zoo but it changed slightly because the kiddos had so much fun a the beach yesterday that we had to go back. So we started the day at the beach instead. the water is icy cold, but we went in our bathing suits anyway. Jake's goal was to play in the dunes and sydney's was to get in the water. Icy cold water i might add. so naturally we went to the dunes first. kiley was sleeping when we arrived so courtney stayed in the car with her and read. she loves to read so i think that worked out okay for everyone. we went to the water first and played in the shallows for a while then i went over to the dunes with jake while sydney worked on her tan (it was extremely overcast but she was intent on laying on the beach). we raced to the dunes (i hope we got a picture of them cause jake would really like that). we dove off the dunes and did some guy only stuff, hand to hand combat and grenades and hide and seek sort of stuff. since i was trying to divide my time as evenly as possible we then headed back to syd.

after interupting her tanning session we went back to the water and she and jake went fairly far out into the water, icy cold water, i should remind you. i went out almost to my knees which was far enough for me, then i talked them into building a sand castle that would definitely get hit with the water. we tried to build it so that when the water did eventually hit it, it could withstand one wave. we build barriers and created a moat and made the walls so that the water would flow around. kinda like a wedge. we waited and waited and well, waited until finally we saw courtney coming our way. the distance from the water to the sidewalk was about 100 yards. we went out to meet her at which time i'm sure jake demolished the sand castle. when we got to courtney and kiley we played with kiley for a while but decided that it was too cold for her. so we bundled her up and made our way back to the sidewalk and into the hotel for some hot chocolate and coffee.

the hotel del coronado is beautiful! it's old but the reoutfitted it quite nicely. we rode in an elevator with a operator and the steel gates. really cool. the kiddos didn't really get it but we did.

we got back to the hotel, had a snack then headed to the zoo. quite an amazing place but it got dark very quickly for us today and started raining. in spite of all that we got to see a lion pacing and roaring, elephants walking about and some really cute younger ones, and a recently born giraffe. We took a bus that showed us a lot of the rest of the park and made the best of it.

after another great day, yes you guessed it back out to the pool for time with sydney. ....oh that little sweet girl is nutso about the pool. so that was our day. bedtime came shortly after...goodnight brush, goodnight comb, goodnight bowl full of mush...