Another San Diego Vacation
San Diego has become the vacation spot
of convenience for my family.
We vacationed in San Diego from 9/1 to 9/5 (Labor
Day weekend, plus two extra days). We stayed at the Paradise Point Resort in
Mission Bay, which was recommended by Betty, the boys' daycare center director.
It's a very nice resort, very family friendly. Tripadvisor.com had lots of
negative reviews from some visitors, and we were apprehensive. However, once we
arrived, it was as good as we expected. The room was a lanai in a small
one-story building with other similar rooms. We were parked just outside our
room. Two beds, walk-in closet, two room bathroom. Clean and comfortable, with
a tropical-island decor.
On the way to
San Diego, we stopped by for Thursday afternoon at Legoland. We rode lots of
the rides, and I bought William the Millenium Falcon Lego
set.
On Friday, we went to the San
Diego Zoo. Heather and I had an argument over driving directions, and after an
hour and a half at the zoo, I was upset enough that I drove her and James back
to the resort, and William and I returned to the zoo by ourselves. I later
called back to apologize, but we continued the argument well into the night
before making up (and me finally extracting an apology from Heather -- harder
than pulling teeth with my bare hands). Regardless, William enjoyed the
zoo.
On Saturday, we went to the San
Diego Wild Animal Park. We had visited it once before, when William was a baby,
and he threw up then. This time, we all enjoyed it more, with William enjoying
the carousel ride three times. Also, we fed some lorikeets, and two landed on
me for some nectar. Got pictures. Visited the new lion enclosure and saw some
lions playing around.
On Sunday, we
went to Sea World and saw the usual sights. This time, a park employee managed
to take pictures of me and William while we were feeding dolphins, so I bought
the pictures. Also got William some toys he had wanted since our last
visit.
On Monday, on the way back to
Los Angeles, we passed by Legoland again, before they shifted to their Fall
schedule (closed some days of the week, reduced hours). Rides again, and this
time, I went on the firetruck attraction with William and exhausted myself on
the pumps, so that my muscles ached abominably. Had to rest and take some Advil
for the pain before I could continue. Also bought William some more Star Wars
Lego toys.
We had planned on passing by
Disneyland on the way home, maybe for dinner, but William threw up in the car on
the road, so we went straight home
instead.
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The
weekend before we went to San Diego, we had the carpet in my home office and
other parts of the house stretched flat, and then I switched the furniture
between the boys' room and my home office, so that they boys now have a larger
bedroom. I also repainted the walls in both rooms, including painting two walls
in the boys' new room "Gamma Sector Green", a Behr/Disney color we had mixed
together at Home Depot. William chose the color. As I was painting, I was
worried it wouldn't look good, but the end result is very very good. I think
William likes the new room. I hope so. It was a hell of a lot of work, almost
entirely by myself alone (though I let William "help" paint a
little).
I'm still getting used to
using their old bedroom as my office. Much smaller, and I want to have shelving
installed in the
closet.
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James
started attending daycare full time last week. He had been going once a week
for the previous three weeks, and we were worried about some rashes that looked
like contact rashes, but they appear to be clearing up gradually. James has hit
it off quickly with Frances, his primary caregiver. Also, William enjoys
visiting James occasionally during the
week.
Finally, helped set up the 95th
birthday celebration for our kids' daycare this Saturday (9/10), and we attended
and bid in the silent auction. After visiting James this afternoon, I saw that
we netted $4k so far from the party.
Posted: Tue - September 13, 2005 at 03:25 PM