Spring Break

Thanks to my brother-in-law being in dental school, we still get to plan fun vacations with them during his spring break. This was the second year we went to San Diego and we had a blast. We started off with a day at Sea World, which has a cute Sesame-Street themed area with rides, play places, a little water park, etc. that was perfectly age approriate for Mackenna and her cousin Hailey. They had so much fun together.

We have a picture just like this one from last year:
Mackenna waiting to go on the Elmo ride:
Touching a starfish for the first time...loved it:

After a long day at Sea World, Mackenna and Hailey were perfectly happy playing in the hotel bed:
The next day we ventured over to Coronado (don't get me started about that bridge...I closed my eyes and screamed the whole way) and went to the Hotel Del Coronado and I thought it was SO creepy and old. This is a lame picture of me (excuse the beach attire and no makeup), but look at that chandalier and all of that dark oak. Such weird decor for a beach-front hotel. I totally believe all the ghost stories about that place after going there.
While there, we rented a couple of these bikes and toured around the island. Here's Steve practicing with both of the girls in the front of our bike-they HAD to ride together, but about halfway through started fighting over who got to ring the bell and we had to separate them:

We spent the rest of the time swimming in the pool at our hotel, which had some great waterslides and the best part (for Steven) was that Mackenna could go up the stairs and down the slide all by herself this year and he got to stay in the nice warm pool.We ate at the Brigantine (our fave fish taco restaurant), went to Seaport Village, visited Brad and Kirstie at their darling apartment (I think they are definitely two of Mackenna's favorite people), did some shopping, and just enjoyed a relaxing weekend away. Can't wait for next year!