San Diego, First Trip

Justin and I went to San Deigo for our anniversary trip this year. Here is a brief summary of our trip.  We had a great time.  I had never been to San Diego before.  The ocean is cold there and from what I hear it is always cold.  It was warmer there than Utah though which is what we were looking for in a trip location. We spent one morning out at Cabrillo National Monument.  They have some cool tidepools and a lighthouse.  We spent a lot of time down near some of the tidepools even though it wasn't the lowest tide where you can see the really cool things.  I love watching the ocean.
 

This was out the window driving one day.  One massive cactus!
 

We walked around Balboa Park one afternoon.  We checked out all the free museums and such.  They had a small botanical garden that had this showcase of orchids as you walked in.  Someday I will get my greenhouse (just a small one would be fine) and then orchids (or maybe vice versus if I was convinced that I could keep them alive).

We went out to Coronado beach, the best place to watch sunset someone told Justin.  This is when I discovered how cold the ocean was.  I didn't want to play in the water, I barely wanted to walk in the edge of the water. We did of course see sunset.  This is my favorite picture, so classic. 

I couldn't have planned this better, the bird and the paddle boarder.  You can see the lighthouse at the top of the hill there also.
 

We also checked out the USS Midway.  It is a retired aircraft carrier turned into a museum. The tour is cool because you see things, you can read the signs or listen to the audio which often had extra stories from people who had served on a carrier if not that one. Then they had ones the kids could climb in, or the adults for that matter.  On the deck they had a lot of planes from all different time periods that would have landed on the Midway. There were also people giving talks about how it worked (as you come in to land, you go full throttle so that if they don't catch you you can take off again!).  I don't know if these men had worked on a carrier or with any of these particular planes but I think a lot of them were retired military.

We also stopped and saw the Mormon Battalion Visitor Center.  Wow, it is cool.  They have definitely upgraded in the last couple of years. It was awesome! And as a former site sister I thoroughly enjoyed it.

And that is a sum up of the first trip to San Diego. Next trip is with the kids, shh, they still don't know they are going. :)  hee, hee, hee.