San Diego

We spent the past week in the San Diego area - Lee needed to get some major quality writing done for church and some friends of ours generously offered for us to stay at the camp they run in Pine Valley. So while Lee wrote and studied during the day, Aaron and I went on some adventures of our own. Mostly he was perfectly content to throw rocks in the creek and walk down the road to see the horses and play at the park.

One afternoon after Lee finished, we ventured off to Coronado beach. Aaron cried on the way to the "woah bo" because we didn't bring his swimsuit. I kept telling him it was too cold to swim in the ocean anyway....

He didn't care that it was cold and ended up being wet head to toe anyway, and LOVED it.

I was glad that I anticipated that and had brought extra clothes.

I also got to meet up with one of my old roommates from Biola, Katie, who lives in the area. It was so nice to meet her husband and daughter Sophia for the first time. We also stayed with them one night and it was so good to catch up!

Our last day in San Diego we decided to splurge and go to Sea World. Aaron had been looking forward to going to the "big zoo with fishies" all week.

In the shark aquarium....

And we unexpectedly got to meet Elmo and Zoey, which was a HUGE highlight to say the least. =) Aaron is generally scared of dressed up things, but surprised us this time and was ecstatic to meet them and give them hugs and knuckles.

Everyone nearby was laughing when I took the following picture:

Aaron walked right under the ropes to look at the dolphins more closely and wanted me to take his picture with them. It was hilarious because this dolphin just sort of stopped and floated for several minutes as if he was posing with him.

We had a great time and are so glad we took the time and money to do this part of the trip. Aaron was such a trooper considering that he was a bit sick and didn't sleep well most of the week. It was a blast and we had a great time together as a family.

A few more additional pictures in case you are interested....

Went on this ride over and over and over and over.... =)

A great week for sure!!!