Our family went to San Diego for a short Trip thanks to my wonderful husband and the Yellow Ribbon Event that the Air Force provides to those that are in Post deployment. It was an opportunity for our small family to fly together for our very first time. All my kids were so excited to fly with the exception of Eric. He was scared to fly. On the plane, I told him "Now when the air plane takes off it is going to feel like you need to pop your ears. " That is all it took! Eric started to get big tears in his eyes. He asked me if it was going to hurt when his ears popped. I told him it didn't feel any different than when you go on a trip in the car, and your ears have to pop. Well after about 10-15 minutes of crying the plane finally took off. Eric had his head buried in my arms. he wouldn't even let us open the window shade so we could look outside. He told me that he just wanted to pretend that he was riding in a car. Once he realized that flying wasn't as bad as he had imagined. He calmed down and had some fun on the plane.
After waiting a long time at the car rental place, we finally got our van that was going to take us around in a place we had no idea where anything was. Thank goodness for GPS! We found Sea World with no problems. We stayed at Sea World until dark. The kids had a lot of fun. After Sea World, we attempted to find our hotel. The GPS failed us this time. I guess even GPS isn't perfect. OH WELL! We found our hotel with good ole intelligence if that is what you want to call it. Saturday we spent the day doing the Yellow ribbon stuff the air force had prepared for us. It wasn't to fun, and the kids didn't have fun either. They ended up spending the 6-7 hours in the hotel room. Oh well they didn't care. It gave everyone time to do homework, play on the computer, watch TV, and fight a little. They survived. After the yellow ribbon event, we all went to Mission Bay Beach. The kids had a blast. We stayed there until almost dark. The kids started to build a sand castle up on the beach. They thought they were far enough away from the shore. Well, they were not! The Tide came in, and try as they might, my kids failed at saving their sand castle. They decided if it was going to get destroyed they were going to do the destroying not the ocean.
Sunday we went to the San Diego zoo. Well, I had a friend who warned me about the zoo, but I didn't listen. She told me it wasn't worth it. It is too big and not kid friendly. Well we went, we got lost trying to find the bus that would just give us a ride around to see the animals. It was hotter than normal. We were all sweating and all the animals were sleeping because it was too hot for even them! The Trip wasn't a complete loss. We did find the bus and we did get to go on the tour of the zoo. Unfortunately, we saw most everything that was on the bus tour when we were walking around lost. By the time we got off of the tour, we had to leave for the airport. It was a good little trip. I love spending time with my family!
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