The Beach Trip

My family just LOVES the beach. The week before school we took a trip with the Broadheads down to San Diego where we rented the top floor and bottom floor of a beach house for a week. Can I just say, everyone was so relaxed and everyone had a blast. We were a minutes walk away from the Mission Beach and a minutes walk away from a really fantastic pizza shop and Mexican Food place. The house we stayed in was really nice and had pretty trees and flowers surrounding it. You could smell the sea and the best part about it was, there was no stress. There was no alarm clock buzzing off early in the morning. There was no rush to go and do something.

We sat in our chairs under an E-Z Up and read books or just watched the sunset go down. We made sand castles. We walked down to the boardwalk. We collected sea shells, rode our bikes down the street by the beach, and even skateboarded a little on the Broadhead's skateboards. Now Walker decided that he wants a skateboard of his own and is saving up. We went boogie boarding (even my pregnant Mom) and caught some awesome waves. We snatched up sand crabs (the ugliest creatures on the planet). We played paddle ball. We watched the sunset. And all the while, managed to catch some great shots. (I'll have to put some more on later)

We did a lot of fun stuff on the beach. However, we did go some places. We decided to head over to the San Diego Zoo and watch the animals and surprisingly, almost all of the animals were up and about, doing their thing when they usually just sleep. Specifically the koalas. We saw a lion and lioness walking around yawning.  We saw the jaguar cubs playing around with their mom and we saw the rhinos roaming. We even saw a monkey that looked exactly like Bode. 

We had a fun time at the zoo. But, later in the week my parents and some of the others headed to the temple which is beautiful. The Broadhead boys babysat the Risenmay clan. 

 I don't want to forget it so I'm going to have to say it, the beach meals were the best! We had pulled pork sandwiches, watermelon, corn on the cob, steak, potato salad, potatoes. All the food tasted really delicious. Especially the tacos from Sarah's Mexican food down the street from our beach house.

Everything was so fun, except for four things. 1. Some of us got sunburned.(those did turn into good tans though) 2. Some of us got rashes. 3. Maverick had a stomach ache (Maverick had some Tums to make his stomach feel better and said they tasted like candy so, Bode decided he would try some) and 4. The weather was so nice that we didn't want to leave