What a Wonderful Life!: SD Day 4--Beach!!


Ry copied Tyce, thinking he looked so cute sitting in the floaty watching tv :)

BEST day in San Diego!! I wish we would have had two or three more of these!

Our initial plan was to go to the Mormon Battalion museum in the morning, have lunch there in Old Town, and then hit the beach for the rest of the day (including a beautiful sunset). Well the morning was so nice that Angie suggested we just go straight to the beach and do the museum and dinner. Sounds good to me!
But first the family gathered in our room where Kevin cooked up some pancakes and Aubrey cooked up some scrambled eggs (in her nearby room). I only had Asher's leftover pancakes but they were delicious--good job Kev! And the scrambled eggs were just what I needed (eggs are my typical breakfast food of choice).
(Oh, and I will add that this was my one morning while on vacation that I got up to workout. I thought I'd go on a 6 mile run but I didn't know where my garmin was (to track my mileage) so I hopped on the treadmill next to Steph who was already in the little fitness center. After 3 miles I was done. It was already hot, the sun was shining right in my eyes, and the treadmill is not fun! So I finished off with some weights before heading back to the room.)

We set up for a day at the beach. We had our canopy and several others had umbrellas. Kev immediately got out in the water with the boys for some frisbee/football tossing. I played in the sand with Tyce and Asher and Ry ran around with the other kids. Most of my day was sitting on the beach with the boys and part of that was holding a sleeping Tyce.

Don't you love the tan line? :)

Asher was well taken care of by all the girls! Here, Steph was feeding him his bagel with cream cheese and Lauren was feeding him a string cheese. That boy...!!!

At one point Rylan and Sam were playing right in front of me and I saw a bee fly right up to Ry. He subconsciously swatted it away and then got stung on the ear! OUCH! He was very upset and luckily there were some prepared people there. Mary had a First Aid kit with tweezers and was able to pull the stinger out. She also had some sting ointment to put on but Ry said it burned. So Mary Kaye and Dennis got some ice and held it on his ear while we all tried to talk to him and calm him down. It took two cubes of ice until he stopped crying. Then he just wanted to go home. He was done. Mark found a perfect sand dollar and after showing it off he offered it to Ry who gladly accepted. That helped him to feel better :) After some time Kev convinced Ry to get back out and play again. Once he did, there were no more complaints or even words about that bee sting!

Ry collected many shells and brought them home with him

I started getting restless and I was ready to get in the water. I decided it was time to try boogie boarding. I laid Tyce down in the canopy shade--I think Kev said he'd watch him but he came out in the water with me so he must have asked somebody else to keep their eyes on him...there were lots of us around! Andy took me out in the waves for some coaching and at his 'GO!' I was off. It was perfect timing and so much fun to ride that wave!!! Some of the kids asked for my board but I made them wait :) Kev came out and the two of us did some boogie boarding where I got swallowed up many a time by those waves. But I had a few good rides so I was pleased and loving the beach!

Tyce LOVED the water! He was splashing and have a ball and didn't mind at all if he got splashed in the face!

Eventually I could put the kids off no longer so I gave up my board and talked with Aubrey while wading in the water. Oh, it was so nice I didn't want to leave. The kids were having a blast in the sand and water, too. We had dinner reservations at 6:00 so before we were all ready to leave the beach we had to pack up. Mark brought the car so people could pack the majority of our stuff in the car. Kev was busy with that while Lauren and I walked back to the hotel with my 3 boys. Tyce was in the stroller but Ry and Asher were struggling. All that sand in their shorts and all over their body was making it very uncomfortable for them to walk. It was slow going and soon Kev caught up with us and carried the boys back. Whew!

I sure do love this handsome husband of mine!!

But wait--we were not ready to be done swimming! Back at our hotel we all hopped in the pool. I can't even tell you how perfect it was!! Again, I did not want to leave so I kept putting it off. I decided I didn't need to do my hair which gave me an extra ten minutes in the pool. At the very last minute we hopped out and raced up to our room to shower and quickly get ready. Then off to Old Town we went for our Mexican dinner!
We ate at 'Cafe Coyote' which was delicious! I intended to eat light but I just couldn't do it. Maybe all the sun and water made me extra hungry?

After our yummy food we walked to the Mormon Battalion museum nearby. I was happy to be going but I wasn't overly excited. But it was Awesome!!! It was interesting and the presentation of it all was very good. We were the last group of the night and we were a big group. There were a few others not of our party there and they were very kind to offer up their seats (I was holding a restless and eventually a sleeping Tyce so I very much appreciated the seat). They take your picture at the end which was fun and gave the kids small pieces of 'gold'. I would highly recommend this museum!