Sea World Day 4

Now you see it...

Now you don't! We had a great time watching everyone else get soaking wet. All of the shows were really fun to watch. I haven't sat in the sun to bake myself on purpose in a lonnnnng time.

Andrew made a new friend

Is this a picture of grandma and grandpa arguing? No, it is Seymour and Clyde.

The dolphin show had acrobats, exotic birds and, of course, dolphins.

This was Andrew's up close and personal experience with Shamu (Andrew thought all the whales were Shamu) during "Dine with Shamu".

I'm going to grow up and work at Sea World.

Feed me...fish, ice, snowballs, non-flavored jello, and leftover fish juice-YUM!

Making animal connections with a monitor lizard...

an eight month old kangaroo...

and a legless lizard (we didn't get pictures of the chocolate chip starfish or the pygmy hedgehog but they were fun to touch also).

To end our day we watched Go-Kart racing and visited Baskin Robbins. This has been a great trip-Grandma and Grandpa love you Andrew!

Museums! Day 3

Here we are at the Firehouse Museum with a great collection of old time fire engines, hats, fire extinguishers (bottles with stuff in them that I guess you threw at the fire) and many other items.

Andrew and grandpa

Andrew explaining to us what the Earth looked like when dinosaurs were on the Earth at the Museum of Natural History or...the Dinosaur museum. He was very interested in this interactive display and had a pretty good understanding of what was being demonstrated.

Andrew and grandpa are looking through microscopes at the skulls of a pack rat, voles, and other rodent-like creatures.

We arrived just in time for dinner-YUM!

Andrew and neighbor enjoying dinner and a show-all in one. The whole process took about 10 minutes and was very fascinating.

Andrew watching the trains at the world's largest model train museum (at least that's what their pamphlet says).

One of the most popular rooms at the museum.

This was the toy train section which had lots of trains moving on the tracks. We left the museum to go get some lunch and went back for round 2 because Andrew enjoyed it so much. Everywhere we walked Andrew was "choo chooing" in a very loud voice (having a great time).

After lunch we rode on the little train in Balboa Park. Balboa Park reminds me of "The Mall" in Washington DC.
After dinner we headed down to the beach because Andrew had told his mom he wanted to visit the beach. I wasn't sure how it would go because Andrew doesn't like to get his face wet but...

Jumping over the waves

He loved every minute. In fact, he was a wild man out there!

Dragging up some seaweed to protect our sand castle

Our sand castle that needed protection

A beautiful sunset to end a wonderful day

Legoland Day 2

Welcome to Legoland. Andrew's expression is pretty much what he wore all day!

Andrew's least favorite ride-Legoland's version of it's a small world. He didn't like the mist that sprayed from the top of one archway while Tim and I were grateful for the cooling mist.

Andrew's favorite ride-slow and easy

The 1 minute helicopter ride that we waited in line for 30 minutes. As soon as we got to be at the front of the line, Andrew said he didn't want to go on this ride-no way!

Andrew liked shooting the animals; though, most of the water went over their heads.

Andrew in jail? Or waiting for a ride? No difference, according to him.

Grandpa and Andrew on the airplane ride. I have one picture of Tim where he was trying to move so I could take a picture of Andrew but it looked like he was puking over the side of the plane.

Passing the time waiting for a ride.

He was upset that he didn't win but everyone watching was hard-pressed to find a winner since everyone kept running into the wall and stalling!

Ahh, a nice cool spot to eat lunch. Andrew said his food gave his legs energy to help him walk all over Legoland. He really did a good job walking.

Andrew was very upset at the two little boys who were driving the boat in front of us. "Those people don't know how to drive!" They kept getting stuck and we would happen to get stuck right behind them and couldn't get away. Even when we were on land heading away from the ride he was grumbling about them.

Paleontologist Andrew in his quest for the elusive dinosaur fossil. Which ended our day at Legoland minus the 20 minute wait to get into the park because of all the traffic. Tomorrow the model railroad museum and maybe the San Diego zoo.

San Diego-Day1

I think Andrew is trying to think of his next "why" question! We're sitting at the airport waiting for our flight to San Diego. As Andrew and I were walking around the airport, a Southwest crew member gave him a set of wings which he still had on right up to bedtime. He kept wanting to know why the wings had a heart on them.










Andrew did great on the plane; though, he didn't want to be unbuckled in case we fell. Here he is enjoying his apple juice which he used to help him down 2 bags of pretzels and a package of Scooby-snacks.


After we landed, we picked up our car and headed over to the USS Midway to look at all the planes and helicopters. Andrew was intrigued by the display of engines so we took him dowwwwwn to the engine room...which he did not find so intriguing. He wanted out as soon as we went down one staircase; unfortunately, we had to go down a few more before we could go up.

Pilot Andrew. When he saw how small the cockpit was he wanted out.

Andrew and the helicopter pilots.

Andrew liked to sit down and "read" about the planes and helicopters.

By this time, Andrew was pretty tired of having his picture taken so he didn't smile very much.

While we were waiting for our plane to arrive, Andrew liked watching the other planes backing out of their parking spaces so he was thrilled to see this "backer-outer" attached to this jet.
He got a little worried when I asked him if the plane was moving.


This Landing Helicopter Docking ship was coming into port while we were on the flight deck. The helicopters just happened to being flying over at for a very opportune photo shot.

Good-bye aircraft carrier!

Andrew and grandpa eating cookies and drinking chocolate milk while watching "Despicable Me". Andrew was so excited about his bed coming out of the couch. Tomorrow Legoland.