Day 8-Downtown and Coronado

What: Breakfast at Village Cafe, Walked to the New Children's Museum, Caught the ferry to Coronado Island, Lunch at the Village Pizzaria on Coronado Island, More Ping-Pong and Foosball with a dip in the cold pool, Mom and Dad had dinner on the USS Midway and the kids and Grandmothers went back to Edgewater Grill.

Lows: Worrying that we wouldn't make the 1:00 ferry, Not being able to use our San Diego Go Cards at the Maritime Museum, Losing Cavett's baseball hat at the Children's Museum.

Highs: Everything about the Children's Museum, Watching all the sailboats from the ferry, yummy pizza and salad for lunch, Dad having time to run by and pick up Cavett's cap before they closed,

Our beautiful mothers joining us for this adventure. 

Day 7-Sea World

What:  Sea World, Lunch at Shipwreck Cafe, Ping-Pong and Foosball at the hotel, Dinner at Peohe's on Coronado Island, Fireworks over the bay.

Lows: Being drenched on the Shipwreck Rapids, Getting a sunburn, No wind and in the sun during the shows, Tired of crowds and lines.

Highs:  Killer whales-seeing that much mass jump out of the water, Seeing the Dolphin show, Seeing our first walrus and beluga whales, Riding the Shipwreck Rapids, Playing Foosball with the kids from Holland, Catching the fireworks after dinner.

Day 6-USS Midway

What:  Breakfast at the Village Cafe, Walked to and toured the USS Midway, Lunch at Edgewater Grill, Quiet  Time, Dinner at Sally's on the Bay.

Lows:  I wore the wrong shoes and got a blister.

Highs:  Touring the island at the top of the aircraft carrier and Cavett being the Captain, Dinner at a fancy restaurant with well behaved kids and Mark got to come as well. 

Day 5-Balboa Park

So, I fell off the bandwagon once we got to IACA in San Diego, but I'm here to finish the blog, nonetheless. 

What:  Breakfast at McDonald's, Fleet Science Museum, Model Railroad Museum, Natural Science Museum, Snack in hotel for a late lunch, Mom and Dad went to dinner with LVI Instructors at the University of San Diego Scripps Oceanography Research Center in La Jolla, while the kids and grandmothers had dinner at the Village Cafe with Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream.

Lows:  The Organ Pavillion was closed and you couldn't see the organ.

Highs:  The massive layouts at the Railroad Museum, Travelling through the cell at the Fleet Science Museum, and Running into our BFF, Mark Alexander who was staying at our hotel. 

San Diego Bound

And thus begins our San Diego adventure.....The theme for the week to keep it short and simple and to focus more on pictures will be a short “what we did and where we ate” and then our favorite daily “highs” and “lows.” This is a nightly ritual around our dinner table and between all of us, tends to sum up the day pretty well.

What: 9:20 AM  Flight, Lunch at Rock Bottom Brewery, Headed toward Carlsbad, CA, Museum of Making Music was closed and Field of Flowers was just a field, Beach Time, Dinner at Casa de Bandini, Early to Bed.

Lows: Worrying about Grandmama and Daddy being the last ones to board the plane due to long luggage lines and Grandaddy's favorite pocket knife accidentally in GM's purse at security. Nana losing some cash out of her wallet between security and the jet way. Figuring out which rental car company had a mini-van and waiting around to get it all taken care of.   Kendrick being knocked over by a wave and doing a flip hitting his head on the sand.

Highs: Watching Kendrick experience take-off in an airplane for the first time and watching his expression of joy with the waves of the ocean, also a first. Cavett loved the landing on the plane. Seeing the panoramic setting of the sun over the Pacific Ocean. Having both mothers with us. Awesome weather! How can it be this sunny and not hot? Our kids being really patient and fairly well behaved on a very long travel day with a two hour time change.

We had a great day overall and look forward to the rest of the week!