On the road!
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| Our View most of the way! |
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| Lots of natural scenery! |
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| Going through Vagas! |
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| And Lots of Desert! |
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| Getting into California, the first sight of the Beach! The very first time for the kids to see the Ocean! |
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| There was a funny little seal sitting on the beach, all by itself. |
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| It didn't seem to mind all the surfers and people all around. It just sat there like it owned the beach! |
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| Saturday was BEACH DAY!!!! You can see the excitement on his face!!!! We went to Coronado Beach! |
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| It was a little chilly at first, but the warmed up pretty quick! |
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| These 2 were fearless and running all around the beach and collect huge awesome seashells! |
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| This guys hung out pretty close to me and played in the sand! |
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| Derek was a wild man in the water! He LOVED it! boogie boarding and playing in the ocean! |
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| All the sand toys kept this boy happy! |
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| This was my spot! Under the umbrella, watching the fun! |
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| They would transport the water up the beach in the buckets and build castles with it! |
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| Building all kinds of fun stuff! |
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| They found this AMAZING shell....But, it had a creature in it....so we left it there. I did not want to try to get it out, or bring that little sea creature with us! |
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| Happy faces and sandy feet! |
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| Blue skies and the ocean! |
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| Kenna went back and forth, from playing in the water with Saileen and Mylee to hanging out in the sand with Kaliah and MyKay! |
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| There is Jo and Boo out there in the water! Where they spent most of the day! |
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| And of course, when you are at the beach SOMEONE has to get buried! MyKay was the tribute! ha ha HE didn't mind one bit! |
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| He even helped them pile it up! |
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| The guy way our there in the water, is of course, Derek....He went too far out for my liking, but he is adventurous that way! |
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| The worst part of the day was having to find a bathroom for this boy! Of course he had to go number 2, so we had to walk like 2 blocks down to find a bathroom, which still boggles my mind why they didn't have one closer to the beach. He and Kaliah and I made it there and back in one piece, so It's all good! |
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| This is what happens to one's hair when you are on a windy, salty sea beach all day! Wow frizzy crazy hair! ha ha And I was the only one who got sun burned, because I slathered everyone in sunscreen except for myself, which was fine, because I had the umbrella, but I did't account for the 2 block walk I had to take to find a bathroom, so I got pretty burned on our little walk. Nothing a little silver and Lavender could't handle though! |
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| Sunday, chillin at the Hotel, getting ready to go see the San DIego Temple! |
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| These kids thought they had dies and gone to heaven with the juice that they got every morning at breakfast! |
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| Lookin' all fancy! |
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| What a BEAUTIFUL Building! |
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| Looking in from the gates outside! We thought this would be out only view, then someone, by some miracle opened the gates and we got to go in! |
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| Even more beautiful inside the gates! |
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| We were not without the grumpiness. |
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| But we were able to pull out of it and decide to be happy! |
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| A picture close to the temple! |
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| Goof monkeys! |
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| Jojo Loving the purple flowers! |
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| Saileen loved the pink flowers! |
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| There weren't any boy colored flowers, but he is cute anyway! |
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| This was the closest to blue she could find! |
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| Looks truly like a castle! |
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| SO bright here is sunny California! |
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| All smiles!!! Love these people! |
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| They loved finding flowers that had fallen off! They were like treasures! |
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| These are MY treasures! |
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| Me and my LOVE! |
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| Such a beautiful place! |
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| We went to the Mormon Battalion museum! It was pretty awesome! |
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| These flowers were awesome! |
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| Saileen was voulentold to be the one to try on the gear they wore! |
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| I think she enjoyed it more than she let on! ;-) |
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| Watching the video clip of the journey! |
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| Their Favorite was panning for GOLD! |
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| They got to practice hand washing clothes! |
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| They got to look through binoculars around the area! |
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| Derek loved it as much as the kids did! |
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| I feel bad for anyone who lives in binocular viewing distance of this building! ha ha |
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| Our Family are honorary Mormon Battalion members! ;-) |
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| We went to La Jolla beach after that! This was called Seashell beach. The parking was INSANE! |
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| There were tons on little sea shells everywhere. |
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| The waves would sneak up on us and get us all wet, unless you could run fast! |
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| They had fun collecting the little shells! |
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| Quite the view! |
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| sandals in hand, looking for sea shells! |
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| Seagulls, on their little perch! |
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| This little cove was a cute little cave like thing! |
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| Our cute family at the beach! |
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| I rolled my ankle because I was wearing flip flops...LAME-O! Luckily I had some deep blue with me! SO We are all good! |
It is nothing compared to Derek's ankle that he rolled just 3 days before our trip. It is pretty nasty looking! We have been keeping oils on it! Hopefully he can walk around amusement parks all week!
