San Diego Part 1

As I was looking at all my pics from vacation, I realized they are not going to fit in one post. So we'll do this in a couple (or more) posts.

Our vacation started on Thursday June 9. We left for San Diego around 5:00 in the morning. Here are some pics of my boys in their half awake stages.

Oddly Joseph didn't try to take a nap until around 7:30. Both he and Josh slept for a couple hours while I drove and then we stopped for a break and some breakfast.

When we passed this truck Joseph got so excited. He had never seen tires this big before.

A little after we stopped for breakfast, we found this awesome rest stop. So we stopped and let Joseph run around for a while. Josh even got him up in a tree.

He has so much fun running around. We played hide and seek for a while (it wasn't that intense. Most of the trees were too small to hide behind so his hiding places were pretty obvious. But he was having a blast.) He had spent the last few days before we left asking when we were leaving for "cation". So the whole way down he kept asking if we were at "cation" yet. He was a lot better in the car than I thought he would be. There were no melt downs, no temper tantrums (at least not in the car) it was great.

Josh went off looking for lizards, but instead of finding them he found a colony of prairie dogs. He got the camera for a minute so here I am in all my "I'm traveling so there" ness.

Joseph loved looking in the holes to look for the animals. We never saw them really close, we got about 10 feet away a few times, but they'd duck down every time we tried to get a picture.


After all this fun we got back on the road, stopping for lunch right outside St. George. Because it was so early (we were only going to Vegas that night) we decided to stop and do some site seeing in St. George. So we stopped at the temple and took some pics. Joseph wanted to stay here by the fountain forever. He loves water fountains/falls/any type of water.

We went for a walk around the temple and Joesph got to walk up the steps and touch the door. I think after the fountain, the steps were his favorite part.

We went into the visitors center and went to look at the statue of Jesus. He really liked that. I wish I could have gotten a pic of his face when he first saw the statue.

We then went on the lookout for Brigham Young's winter home. After getting all hot and sweaty, we stopped in the square by the tabernacle and let Joseph run around in the water there. He loved it, we could have stopped there and come home and he wouldn't have realized he'd missed anything.

We went and toured the winter home. It was a lot smaller than I thought it would be, but it was nice and cool. And it's always fun to see a part of history.

After that we took off for Vegas. We made a stop so Josh could look for lizards, and he found one. He let Joseph hold it for a while and they both had fun with that.

We spent the night in Vegas. Didn't do anything exciting. We were all tired from having woken up so early that morning. So we went to bed early and got ready for the next day. I'll publish those soon. (if not tonight, tomorrow)

We really had a fun time. Joseph hasn't stopped talking about everything we saw and did. I'm glad we got to take this time and spent it away from our usual grind. It was a very good experience.