You can catch up with our California trip here: Carlsbad | San Diego Zoo | USS Midway Museum | Hollywood + San Clemente | Disneyland, but keep reading for details on our very last day in Los Angeles! Our final day in LA wasn't the most climactic as far as sightseeing goes, but it was one of those days where we followed the girls' lead and they had the best time. Looking back through the photos seems so lackluster, but I remember thinking it was a perfect day it was when we fell into bed that night. We had a few things left to tick off of our list, so we decided to spend the day walking and driving around LA. It started off cool and dreary, but by mid-morning we were shedding layers and enjoying the beautiful day. We walked around the corner to Starbucks first thing and grabbed a ...
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Travel Diary | Disneyland
You can catch up with our California trip here: Carlsbad | San Diego Zoo | USS Midway Museum | Hollywood + San Clemente, but keep reading for details on our adventures in Disneyland! Alternately titled: the one with alternate titles (or even more appropriately: the one with forty-seven photos) When we started talking about this California trip, way back last summer, Ella brought up going to Disneyland. I'll admit that it wasn't even on my radar and Josh kind of rolled his eyes at the mention. Not that we aren't both huge Disney fans, but he wasn't sure about spending a day of our west coast adventure on an amusement park. We had already nixed Seaworld and LegoLand for these very reasons -- there was just so much we wanted to see! Ultimately, we decided that we might never be in Los ...
Travel Diary | Hollywood + Santa Monica
You can catch up with our California trip here: Carlsbad | San Diego Zoo | USS Midway Museum, but keep reading for details on our first day in Los Angeles and how we conquered the less than sunny city! When you think of sunny California, you think of sunny California, right? We had been stalking our weather app for weeks and all signs pointed towards blue skies and high temperatures. I'm sure native Californians were surprised at all of the rain they got in February, but we were not going to let it ruin our week. When we woke up in LA to grey skies and scattered showers, we started looking for indoor options and decided to make the most of it. We stayed in an AirBnB, right off of Hollywood Boulevard. When I say right off of Hollywood Boulevard, I mean we were a block from the ...
Travel Diary | USS Midway & San Clemente
You can catch up with the first and second days of our California trip, but keep reading for details on the U.S.S. Midway and our drive up the coast of Southern California. Things to Do: U.S.S. Midway Museum - This was honestly one of our favorite stops of the week. There is so much to do and the kids were far more engaged than I expected. There is a super nice portable potty outside the museum (think Bryant Denny quad potty nice), so go there first. I also wouldn't recommend buying tickets ahead of time. That line you see in the photo below is for the people already holding tickets. We had to buy them when we arrived and were ushered immediately inside, with no wait time at all. For little kids, I highly recommend the Junior Pilots' Program! When Josh first suggested that ...
Travel Diary | San Diego + La Jolla
You can catch up with the first few days of our California trip here, but keep reading for details on the San Diego Zoo and our afternoon on the beaches of La Jolla. Spoiler alert: it provided one of our favorite meals! If you've been to San Diego, you'll know that everybody's number recommendation is the San Diego Zoo. We did a ton of reading and tried to decide whether to spend multiple days here and if we should hit up the zoo and the safari park. Ultimately, we decided to spend a single day at the zoo only, and not feel terrible if we couldn't fit every exhibit into our day. We got up early enough to grab brunch in Encinitas (details in our previous post) and still wound up in the zoo parking lot about twenty minutes before they opened the doors. We grabbed our tickets ...
Travel Diary | Carlsbad, California
When I made our travel arrangements for California, I was thinking the earlier, the better when it came to our arrival. Getting to San Diego by ten o'clock in the morning sounded great, but the two o'clock in the morning wake up call was not cool. We managed to get the kids in bed pretty early the night before and get almost all of our bags in the car and ready to go. Fortunately, they were so excited about our trip (and their first flight) that we had no problems getting them up and ready. They giggled the entire way to the airport and were rock stars when it came to navigating the security and boarding process. We even got compliments from a few nearby passengers on how well behaved they were <just insert all the praise hands here>. We actually arrived in the San Diego ...
Little Letters | February
Dear Virtual Friends, I’m so excited that you’re back here again this month. I hope that we can grow this little linkup together and learn all sorts of fun things about each other as we go. Dear New Visitors, This is our favorite new linkup. The second Friday of every month, we’ll be sharing Little Letters together on our blogs. Write a series of letters to anyone or anything you’d like and come back here to link up. Don’t forget to share with your friends. This is one of those times where “the more, the merrier” definitely applies! Dear California, you were perfect. How is it that every trip is just the best? Dear San Clemente, we all agreed that you are the best of what California has to offer. Your sweet white houses with blue awnings are adorable. Your twisty streets ...