Southern California Trip

I can't tell you how excited I was to go on this trip. Besides our trip to Miami for our honeymoon, Mike and I haven't gone on any big trips since so this was awesome. Mike came home 2 Monday's ago and told me he was leaving on Sunday for San Diego and I told him "Not without me!" We quickly planned an eventful trip and off we set on Saturday night. Mike flew out on Sunday. I stopped a few times to rest my eyes but we made the trip in farely good time and the kids were awesome.

The Beach...

On Monday we hung out at the beach. The girls LOVED it. Jade was the first to venture out into the ocean.

It took Kazia a little bit to feel comfortable enough to walk out a few feet.

We took Jade's sand toys and they had so much fun building sand castles and sitting on them or wrecking them with their boats and shovels. Kazia asked to be buried in the sand and Jade was happy to help.
Then it was Jade's turn. She's pretending to be asleep.

Sea World...

We went there on Tues. and Wed. The dolphins were awesome. Jade kept saying "Suit...Suit...Mommy Suit" She wanted her and I to go swimming with the dolphins like the trainers.

Here is proof that if you keep the kids on a schedule...they can sleep just about anywhere. This is on the grass out in front of the ticket boothe's at Sea World.

I had to wake them up a little early to hit the Shamu show which was well worth it.

The whales are amazing!

After the show we went below to see Shamu up close in the tank and we got a great view.

Next we headed to the 4-D Elmo show. The girls looked stylish in their 3-D glasses. Unfortunately as the show blew and sprayed us in scared Jade to death and she cried through most of it.

Kazia had a great time though.

The girls also loved holding the star fish. Hands-on is great for little ones.

I lost my camera for 2 days (which I found under the seat in my car) and so I don't have any pics of the Zoo or Mike at Sea World but I went to the Zoo with another lady and she's going to send me some pics.

Off to Disneyland...

While Mike, Jon, and Kazia went on Star Tours Jade and I wandered around and we found Alice. Jade thought she was Cinderella since she was in blue and she was happy to hold her hand and walk a little bit with her.

Tarzan's tree house was one of the girls favorites.

Jade is really into trains these days so we rode the Disney train 2 times.

While the others were on Space Mountain I took Jade to toon town and she loved playing on all the cool stuff. She didn't want to give up her spot on the fire truck.

The girls got pulled into the parade and got a chance to dance and interact with people and characters. It was great!

When we tried to leave Disneyland at 10:15 we didn't get out of the parking garage until 12:30. It was ridiculous. AVOID the parking garage at all costs. This was my first and last time to do that. We got home around 1:30 am and Mike went surfing at 5:30 am with Jon and Dave. When he got back we went to the...

Wild Animal Park...

We had a great time at the Animal Park but it was so hot that I think we got a little heat stroke.

There was a petting area where the kids could pet some deer and Jade had to give all of them "luvs". She's really not checking out the rear as it may seem.

We also took a African Safari Tour that took you up close to many of the animals and they were in exhibits that represented their homes in Africa. They had a ton of giraffe's.

We got a great view of the Lion and Lioness. They are so BIG!

After the Animal we were so tired that we took a nap, went to a soccer game that some of the family was playin in, and had a family dinner. It was great to see everyone and catch up a little. Thanks guys for letting us hang out!

Well, all good things must come to an end. It was an exhausting ride home and when we got home we were so tired. There was a thunderstorm so we put the girls in bed with us for a nap and when we woke up and moved out of the bed this is what we saw. PRECIOUS!