Vacation Pt 2

After Indio we went down to San Diego to spend a week at Husband's sisters house.  It's about a 2 hour drive, which was for the most part a piece of cake.  The van we rented was equipped with a GPS, which kept recalculating our route, "based on updated traffic info," so we took the scenic route down, through several towns (pretty sure the stop lights made our trip longer) and through some "mountains."

 

Family story time the first night.  Husband had another sister come back to the house as well so we got to hang with her and her kids as well.

The train at the zoo.  We didn't go to the San Diego Zoo, we did that just two years ago.  But the train was fun.  The train runs at night during the Christmas season and has bunches of lights.  We went back the last night it was running, to wait for 30 minutes because it had rained, and half the lights had shorted out.  Oh well, it was fun.  And the boys love trains, so two train rides = awesome for them!

We went to the beach twice.  The first time was to the awesome park to watch the sunset.  #1 LOVED this.  The sand goes through the holes and comes out of a spout at the back.

It's coming.  The water is coming!

Yum yum, have fun changing my diaper!

Fresh squeezed lemon juice.  I guess when you live in Southern California and your friend has a lemon tree, you can afford to do cool things with your kids like squeeze lemonade.

Sleep mom with sleep baby on the red eye.  We drove back to Palm Springs to fly home.  While waiting the three hours until check-in, we killed time going to the local air museum in Palm Springs, which was actually pretty cool.  Did you know that Bob Hope was from England?  And I'm pretty sure I read that he tried to join the military during WW2 and was turned down so that he could tour for the USO instead?  Who knew!

 

We had a great time and it was a nice break from the cold we had been having back home.  The beach was really nice, even in the middle of "winter."  If we lived there I'd be taking the boys everyday it wasn't raining.  They had such a great time.  We brought some small trucks so they dug trenches and made mud sinkholes.  It sort of sucked leaving.  If there was a downside to coming back to NP, it was the realization that life could be enjoyed EVERYDAY outdoors if we didn't live here.  :(