San Diego

We recently took a trip to see our daughter in California.  She lives in Laguna Niguel with her husband in a cute little studio apartment not far from the beach.  We left our home in Kansas at the un-Godly hour of 2:45 am to catch a flight to Santa Ana.  Our youngest daughter, the heart kid, had never flown before, and was terrified.  As was I since I still have some apprehensions about flying.  I am scared to death of getting kicked off a plane for being too fat.  We caught a layover in Arizona to discover our gate had been changed to CLEAR ACROSS THE AIRPORT!  We sprinted across to make it in time for the next flight.  We then went straight to Disney Land!  We spent a whole day, looking, riding, but mostly waiting in line.  If ever there were a place to wait in line, Disney would be that place.
The next day we mostly visited.  Went out for breakfast, went the the beach to mess around (too cold to swim), the kids made us pizza in the pizza oven in the courtyard.  It was a nice day.  Sunday we went whale watching.  We were told by both our daughter and the company not to expect much, but we saw a humpback whale, a sea turtle, and a ton of dolphins.  It was so much fun.  We did some more visiting.  My husband wanted to see his old neighborhood and visit a friend.  The following day we had coffee in San Juan which is just the most adorable town ever!  Then a stop in Carlsbad to look at the flowers and on to our sea side rental.  It was a gorgeous day.  The view above is from our living room!
That week we spent a few days in San Diego.  We went to the zoo one day.  It is an enormous zoo!  If ever you go get a two day pass and see it all.  We didn't see it all and we walked over 5 miles that day just in the zoo.  The next day we went to the Midway.  You have to go to the Midway if you go to San Diego.  Everyone will expect it.  It is so interesting too.  My uncle served on that ship in the late 70s so I wanted to go or personal reasons.  Afterward, when ever we told anyone we went to San Diego, they wanted to know if we went to the Midway.  The last day we went to Old Town San Diego.  I wished we had had more time to spend there.  That place is pretty great.  And bring money!  You are going to want lots of souvenirs from Old Town.  It was a great trip.  My youngest wanted to go home earlier than planned and my husband wanted to stay later, so I guess it all evened out.  I thought we went home just right.  Other than we should have stayed at Old Town a little longer and not gotten to the airport so soon.  It was a good week.