San Diego 2011 (First 2 days)

May 1st was our BIG DAY! We as a family have never been on a vacation together, besides the normal camping, that I don't consider a vacation. We left at 8:30 am which was a half hour ahead of schedule because we were so EXCITED. The first day we drove to Primm Valley (by Vegas) to stay at Buffalo Bills. It was ok but I hate the smell of cigarette smoke already and to be there was a torcher for me. I get the biggest headaches with strong smells and cigarette smoke in the entire casino was a killer.  It made me feel really sick so I just went to the room and laid down and watched all the kids while Chad, Brett, and Stephanie went downstairs for a while.

The next morning we headed to San Diego.  Again we left earlier than normal because we were so anxious to see the Ocean.  Our drive wasn't as long as the previous day but it was too long to wait HAHA.  I kept getting my camera out ready to take the first shot of our view of the Ocean but every turn we made thinking this was going to be it, it wasn't.  Did you know that San Diego is full of Hills?  I didn't. About 10 minutes away we ran into major traffic.... Of Course!   Grrrr

It ended up being a really bad wreck so they had all lanes of traffic closed except for the left shoulder and it was SLOW going.  So we decided to get off the freeway and right back on.  That worked because the accident was in between the off ramp and on ramp.  So we were moving again!

 We finally got to San Diego but we were all hungry so we decided to go to Olive Garden for a nice sit down meal.  I don't know why but everywhere we ate it seemed like there was NO flavor to the food.  Utah is lots better I do have to say.  We then went and got our hotel.  It was so nice!  Way better than Buffalo Bills and an extra bonus NO smoke!  We were really exhausted but I still hadn't seen the Ocean so we started to head in that direction.  Then FINALLY.............

This is Mission Bay

SO BEAUTIFUL!!

Way out there is our FIRST glance of the Ocean

YAY  We made it!
Belmont Park

The kids were so excited

The Ocean was Everything I thought it would be!  We took off our sandals and walked through the sand.  The kids couldn't help themselves and went right into the Ocean, after being told not to get wet.  And they got SOAKED!  I figured it will be a long time until we are able to do this again (hope not though) so I let them at it.  We also walked along the beach and collected some sea shells.  That was something I didn't expect.  There were so many!

All in All we had TONS of fun that first day!