When David and I started planning our summer vacation earlier this year, we decided that we wanted to go to San Diego. Over the past couple of years we have done more camping-based trips (Redwoods & Utah National Parks) and we were ready for something more city-based. We started looking at places to stay and as we were visualizing the trip, we thought about how much fun it would be if we could convince the Haderlies to come with us and rent an airbnb together. We pitched the idea to Jenna and Kevin and they agreed. We'd been looking forward to this week all year and we had such a great time.
We've said for a long time that the people we think we'd like to travel with most are Jenna and Kevin, because we have such a good relationship and compatible travel styles. Unfortunately, we are also each other's babysitters, so we don't usually get to travel together. But we were glad to see that our theory was correct and they are great people to travel with. Kevin was only able to be there for a couple of days, so my mom drove out with Jenna to help with the kids and be there with us for the week.
We didn't drive out together. Jenna and my mom left early in the morning and stayed at a hotel past Las Vegas. We decided to take a slower first day and stop in St George, then make our way the rest of the way to San Diego the following day.
We had a great time in St. George. We went out to eat at the Pizza Factory (we planned for this to be our "restaurant eating night") and explored downtown St. George a bit, then headed back to the hotel where we went to bed pretty early. Austin, Lydia, and I walked down to the hotel pool and soaked our legs in the hot tub while Caleb and Lucy were falling asleep and just had a fun time hanging out together.
The next morning we woke up bright and early, ate the hotel breakfast (which is my favorite thing about staying in a hotel), and got on the road.
Our minivan (a 2014 Chrysler Town and Country) has been having a hard time lately, and so we opted to rent a van for the trip. It didn't have a TV, which was a bummer, but it was a Toyota Sienna Hybrid which was fun to try out for an extended period of time.
We made it to San Diego within a half-hour of Jenna and Mom and we met up to let the kids play at the beach. We arrived an hour before our Airbnb was available, so we went straight to the beach and were not prepared for the kids to get in the water (we found a beach that had a playground and we thought "the kids will play at the playground and look at the ocean" yeah right, ha). But they had the best hour of their lives and all it cost us was some sandy and soaking wet travel clothes.
We made it without incident (thank you rental van) and were excited for a great week!
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