San Diego

This past week we spent a wonderful 3 days in San Diego with my dear friend Kathleen. I worked for Kathleen for 6 years at College of the Canyons before Micah was born, and she has remained a part of our family even though I don't work for her anymore. She recently moved to San Diego and invited us to come spend time with her so we took advantage of a little vacation time to do just that. It was a wonderful visit and we fell in love with San Diego. She lives just 2 blocks from Mission Bay ~ who wouldn't love that?!! Thanks for a wonderful time Kathleen! It was so good to see you again!

Taking a walk down to the Bay

We spent one day at the San Diego Zoo. What a great place! We loved the design of this zoo and how close you could get to some of the animals. It is so big that we didn't get to see all of it, but we really enjoyed what we did see.

Have you even seen a koala move? Since they live in trees you would think they would be really nimble moving around on the branches, but not this guy. He moved ever so timidly, carefully getting a good grip before advancing the other arm forward. It was so fun to watch him though. Doesn't he look so cute? Makes me want to pet him.

Micah enjoyed getting close to the elephant

His favorite animal was the sea lion

But the best part of the day was the Skyfari Aerial Tram!!!

While we were looking at this reindeer, surrounded by many other admiring guests of the zoo, Micah loudly commented, "Hey Daddy! Do the reindeer have meat?" "We should shoot one! They'd be good to eat." I was horrified, but Nathan just laughed. This kid needs to move to Idaho so he can go hunting.

Although I don't think she cared much for the animals, Ashlyn had a fun day chewing on her links.

Micah fell down while climbing on a rock so we made a trip to the First Aid station to get bandaged up.

As I said, the tram was a hit, so we rode it 4 times that day.

Lovin' on my buddy boy

Our last day there we enjoyed a picnic on the beach

Then we rented a pedalboat so Micah could get out in the Bay.

I wasn't so thrilled though when the boys yelled out, "Watch this!" I looked up to find Micah flying off the boat. Good thing he had swimming lessons last week!!!

Kathleen and Ashlyn enjoyed hanging out on the beach

Once we returned the boat, Micah spent the rest of the time building a river bed in the sand and filling it with water.

Micah and Cookie

Micah, Cookie, Kathleen, and Ashlyn