Trip to So-Cal

In May Jet Blue had some awesome fares to Southern California. This was good news for Bentley, Jake, and Viva because I had been promising them a trip there. Opa was not as excited as they were to go, so when Kara offered to take his place he was happy to pay for the trip and let her have all the fun. We invited our friend Marjory from church who likes the children and loves to travel to come with us. We purchased tickets to So-Cal for the end of September. Kara found us a house to rent with a pool that was only three blocks from North Carlsbad Beach. Score! We chose to stay in Carlsbad because it's home of Legoland and midway between Anaheim (Disneyland) and San Diego (SeaWorld and San Diego Zoo). It's a very nice little town and the beach was awesome.

We arrived on a Tuesday and left the following Tuesday so we had six full days to play in So-Cal. That sounds like a lot of time, but the San Diego area has so many entertainments that we had to cross more things off our list than we left on it. Sad, but true. We only visited Disneyland for one day, so we did not make it to Disney's California Adventure Park. We were unable to visit Universal Studios, Knott's Berry Farm or Belmont Park on the beach. Marjory is a roller coast aficionado so that was sad, but the trio are still a little young (in Viva's case too short!) to enjoy more exciting amusement park rides.

We visited SeaWorld in San Diego--we could have spent a second day there. We chose to visit San Diego Zoo's Safari Park rather than the main zoo. We wanted to do both. We spent two days at the end of our trip at Legoland: one day in the Water Park and one day in the main area. We visited the beach on the day we arrived and again on Sunday. We played in the pool at our rental house. We were busy.

After returning home I tried interviewing the trio about our trip, but they don't have a lot to say. They live in the moment and that moment is past! I even took notes each night while in So-Cal, but they weren't much more forthcoming then than they are now.