I mentioned that
we spent Labor Day weekend in San Diego in a couple other posts. Ryan and I
really wanted to have a fun weekend for Dominick before his birthday (which
fell on a Tuesday) and didn't want to spend it in the desert. Since San Diego
is very kid friendly and not too far away we decided it would be an easy place
to go, especially since we were going to be going in that direction anyways
since my parents, Dominick and I flew into LAX.
We spent nine
hours on an airplane thanks to two extra pit stops along the way and finally
arrived in Los Angeles around 12:30. Ryan was waiting for us at the USO so he
met us and we filled the truck with 5 suitcases, bags, a stroller and the pack n
play Ryan had put in there for Dominick. What should have only been a 1.5-2
hour drive ended up being closer to 4-4.5 hours. To say it was a long day is a
complete understatement.
When we arrived
in SD we immediately went to Coronado and ate at Five Guys and it was
everything and more. We did a little bit of shopping, picked up our tickets for
the zoo and walked around before heading to our hotel (we actually stayed at Pt
Loma). It was only around 9, but we were tired from a long day and all went to
bed pretty early.
Sunday morning we
were all up kind of early and got around pretty quick. We went and had a big
breakfast and made it to the San Diego zoo by 9:30. When we got there it was
pretty empty which was the complete opposite from when we were there in July.
We headed to the Pandas first, mostly because the last time we were there the
wait was over 3 hours and I had to see them. I’m so glad we did because they
were a close first of my favorite animal of the day. Dominick even saw them and
was pretty enamored with them. The San Diego zoo is one of the best that we’ve
been to; it’s really busy, but they have tons of animals and they’re enclosures
aren’t teeny tiny so I think they have a good quality of life. Around noon we
got to see an elephant (Devi) get a pedicure and that was so cool. Elephants
are my favorite animal so I was really excited to get to see this. Dominick
might have even left with his own Devi…a much smaller Devi. We didn’t even get
to see the entire zoo, but we were getting hungry and it was getting more
crowded and hot as the day went on.
After we left the
zoo we headed to this small restaurant near Pt Loma and had “linner”. We
ordered gyros and sandwiches and they did NOT disappoint. It was SO good and we
left with full bellies. After dinner it was too early to go back to the hotel
so we went to a NEX and did some shopping and we had to pick some things up
from the commissary. We headed back to the hotel and walked around base before
calling it a night. Dominick loves being outside and he had done a lot of
sitting the past two days so he was happy to stretch his little legs.
Monday we got up,
got around, packed up the truck and had breakfast. Our final destination before
hitting the road back to Edwards was La Jolla Cove. We heard that we would be
able to see seals and it was a really pretty area, it also happens to be on our
bucket list of places to go/see before we leave California. It was super foggy
and pretty cloudy, but the weather was perfect to walk around. We took some
pictures and enjoyed the beautiful scenery and called it a day. Traffic wasn’t
bad at all since we avoided the LA area/traffic (the 5 and 405) so we made
pretty good time coming home. Since we had been gone for 10 days and then spent
the weekend away our fridge was pretty bare so we stopped to have dinner at a
teeny tiny Mexican restaurant that my parents happened to find a year ago.
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