Thursday, April 04, 2013

Spring Break in California: San Diego

As this was the first year E was in school it was also the first year that we did what thousands of parents of school-age children throughout the nation do: We took a spring break vacation. Our long-overdue trip to California started in San Diego, where we visited friends Rachele and Mike (and dog Harley) and tried to stay as quiet as possible at 4:30 a.m. when the kids got up. The hosts and weather were both hospitable and we had a wonderful time catching up and sight-seeing. Some highlights of the trip included:

The Mission Bay playground, where the kids got to run around after 12+ hours of travel
The Turtle Breeding Grounds of the San Diego Zoo
Riding San Diego wildlife
Performing colonoscopies to unsuspecting canines
Striking gnarlatious poses while gripping the rails of our shortboard
Analyzing the proportionality between velocity and grain size  
Conducting field research on the resistance of sand at the littoral regions of the Eastern Pacific
Assessing the tactile, olfactory, and gustatory nature of common silica 
Aarfing with the seals
Testing the maximum tensile strength of marine snails
Exploring the tide pools at Sunset Cliffs
And, of course, just hanging out

1 comment:

DC MOM/GiGi said...

Great family foto!! Are those truly seals in the background? Like Henry's inquiring mind and love all the science reference, possibly I can get an item out of all that. Elizabeth is soooo looong in the "hanging out" picture.