Tuesday, October 21, 2008

San Diego

Goni & Grover and lots of family headed south to San Diego for Clark & Courtney's wedding this past week. Flight left on Saturday morning and we arrived at our condo at Oceanside in the late afternoon. The condo is near the ocean and this is the view from our balcony.
We went for a walk down to the ocean and when we passed the marina Grover saw several boxes on posts. From what we can tell people in California must think that their cigarette butts are valuable because they put big padlocks on them!

The wedding was held on Sunday afternoon at a winery near Escondido. It was a nice ceremony and the food and visiting was great. Had a good time visiting with the new relatives and some other family members.

On Monday 28 family members headed north to Disneyland. We had a great day and saw the big parade in the evening. Rode the easy rides at Disneyland and Goni got her face painted and a new sweatshirt. Later Grover went over to California Adventure with Tim and Shayne and rode the Bee and a roller coaster. Goni and Shelly saved some bench seats along the parade route where we saw all the usual Disney characters.

Goni's face painting.


A Mickie Mouse pretzel.

Goni's new sweatshirt (and modeling Cole's new hat).

The big parade.

Tuesday Grover went down to the San Diego Air & Space Museum and the Automotive Museum. There were lots of airplanes on display including a replica of the Spirit of St Louis which Charles Lindbergh flew to France in 1927.

Wednesday the group hit Sea World for a visit. We saw amazing shows including Shamu and the other big whales.

Weather was good all week with lots of sun and warm temperatures during the day. It was a great mini vacation and we are sad that it came to an end.

4 comments:

Caroline said...

Now that trip looks like you've had so much fun. congratulation to clark and courtney ( do you even say congratulation to a wedding couple?)

Jen said...

Looks like fun!! The face painting looks good on you Goni, how about a permanent face tattoo??

Laurel said...

Sweet trip for you old folk! Where are the other wedding pics?

Michelle M said...

That's all the stuff we did on our honeymoon! I love those resorts; I'm excited to take the kids someday when they're old enough to appreciate it. Although someone told me Disneyland is way much better when you're an adult (which I guess I am...).