San Diego Part 1

About a week and a half ago, we headed down to San Diego for a little vacation. We figured it would be our last for awhile and Joel was getting ancy to go somewhere with just our little family. So about a month ago he found some good deals for San Diego and hurried and booked it. The whole thing was kind of thrown together but it was a lot of fun and everything turned out great. I hate to bore you with all of the pictures, but I need to remember what they all were when I finally get around to scrapbooking them ten years from now.
We stayed at the Hyatt Mission Bay (don't worry, we did NOT pay full price). It had a gorgeous view of the bay and some little island in the middle of it.
The hotel had 3 heated pools. Two of the pools had waterslides going down into them. Jenna loved going down the little slide by herself. She did have one little mishap when a kid twice her size was too scared to go down by himself. He was embarrased, so he turned around and pushed her down. Joel was about ready to take the kid out back.
There were these little cabanas that we walked by to get to our room. At night, they had a fire going outside one of them. We stopped one night to sit by it, but it was still too cold. Since we were on the bay, there was a constant breeze and the temperature was always about 10 degrees cooler than anywhere else we went.We wanted to take an extra carry on with us for some snacks, so we gave it to Jenna to carry (don't worry, it was super light). She looked so cute wearing it, I just had to take her picture!
Her own seat! We were debating on whether or not it was worth the money to have Jenna have her own seat and us have more leg room. It sure was nice, but I don't know that I would pay that much again for a few extra inches of room.

The trip to San Diego was easy and seamless. We didn't have to wait long in the airport and Jenna did so well on the plane. She fell asleep a few minutes into the flight. It was probably good because there was so much turbulence I would not have been able to entertain her for long. It was the first time I have come really close to losing it on a plane.

When we got to San Diego everything went well. We made a well worth it purchase a couple of days before we left. Joel found an awesome deal on a GPS so we bought it and took it with us. It made things so much easier! No more reading maps or figuring out where we are. We just listened to the GPS lady and she got us right where we needed to go! It only took us about 10 minutes to get to our hotel and a couple more minutes to get checked in. The trunk to our rental car broke by the time we got to the hotel so Joel had to climb through the back seat to get to our stuff in the trunk. I think that was the only hiccup.

We hung out at the hotel for a little while then headed out to find something to eat. We decided to try to find a Hard Rock Cafe. The GPS told us there were two. We went to try to find the one closest to us and couldn't find it, so we ventured out to find the other one. We found it fairly easily, but couldn't find parking. We drove up and down one way streets for about half an hour before we found a parking garage. By this time we were starving. We walk the block to get to Hard Rock only to find out that it was closed for a private event! Arg! We went another block to TGI Friday's. The food wasn't very good, the service was awful, and they gave Jenna curdled milk to drink. Other than that we were happy because we were on vacation! We headed back to the hotel after that, sat on our balcony for a few minutes, then went to bed nice and early.