San Diego

Matt's sister, Cara, had a volleyball tournament in California last week. So, we decided to go watch her and take a mini-vacation to San Diego as well. We left on Thursday, August 27, after work and arrived to our hotel in San Diego at 11:45 pm (which was 2:45 am our time) and came home on Monday, August 30, at about 11:45 pm! We had a great time and Landon was sooo good! He is such a great little traveler. San Diego was absolutely beautiful. The weather was about 68-70 degrees every day and sunny with no humidity....it was perfect! We can't wait to go back again someday. We hope you enjoy the many, many pictures (and this is only about 1/4 of the pictures we took) on this blog entry from our trip!

Friday morning, we headed to the famous, huge San Diego Zoo.

Landon on Daddy's shoulders

Matt and I at the zoo (Landon was asleep in his stroller at this point)

Landon giving me one of his famous "Landon hugs"

All 3 of us in a cave type thing

Landon feeding the giraffes

At the petting zoo with sheep

and goats

After the zoo, we headed to SeaPort Harbor for a little bit....so pretty

Then we went to Aunt Cara's game

We made Landon a special shirt for the tournament that said, "Go Aunt Cara" on the front. This was the back of his shirt!

Landon, Cara, Matt and I outside of the gym after her game

Breakfast on the beach Saturday morning

Landon playing in the sand, which he really did not like at all at first

All of us by the water. It was pretty chilly in the mornings before the sun came out.

Landon running on the board walk

After Cara's games that afternoon, we headed to Mission Beach for dinner. This is Landon playing in the trunk of the rental car as we got his stroller out.

This is the restaurant we ate out so we could be on the water while eating

Matt's "Shark Attack" drink at dinner that literally had a shark in it

Landon eating his Mac 'n Cheese

Eating dinner....what a view we had

Landon drinking his smoothie like such a big boy

Sunday morning Matt took his first surf lesson. This is him putting on his wet suit.

The finished product

Part of his lesson

Good form!

And finally....surfing!

More Surfing

Landon in his stroller

Cara and I watching Matt's surf lesson

Landon and Mommy playing on the beach

After Matt's surf lesson, we left Mission Beach and headed to Coronado Island. Landon fell asleep on the way there and slept through our lunch as well.

So tired

Coronado Island was absolutely beautiful and probably our favorite place that we went to. This is the 3 of us on the beach at Coronado Island.

Landon, Matt and Cara

Playing with his sand toys

Reading a book with Pa-Pa

Another family pic

Playing in the sand....he liked the sand more this day

Walking to the cold water

Running on the beach

Playing with Daddy

Splashing in the ocean

All of us on the beach (Matt, Me, Landon, Cara, Dixie and Rod)

Sunday night we had some ice cream after dinner. Landon enjoyed his cone!

At the hotel with our tired little boy

Monday morning before we left we went to La Jolla Beach to see the seals. There were tons of birds there and Landon loved chasing them. That is what he is doing in this picture.

What a view

So pretty...and palm trees EVERYWHERE

Some seals swimming

the rest of the Seals sun bathing

Landon and Daddy

Matt and I

This is Landon on our flight back home. He is watching Sesame Street on the computer!