One set of the kids' grandparents live near San Diego, so we were excited to make this a two-part trip, hence the name of this post. The first exciting part was going out to see Nana and Papa in California. We hadn't seen them since July and were so excited to be able to see them.
Unfortunately, it was a little bit crazy staying in a hotel and I admit I forgot my camera more often than not, so I don't have pictures of everything we did, but I do have some that I'll post to show how much fun the kids had.
Since we were headed to Disneyland towards the end of the week, we decided to just stick around Temecula and do some lower key stuff for the first part of our trip. Zach and Hailey were just excited to be around Nana and Papa and it didn't matter to them what we did. Nana and Papa took them to Mulligans on one of the days we were there and the kids loved it. It was just like Boondocks around here. There were so many things to do ...
Like play video games,
Skeeball (Tate loves this as well),
Air hockey,
and of course the go karts! It was hilarious watching Zach and Hailey go around and around the little track. There were no lines, so they rode it 3 times right in a row. The funniest part was when Zach lapped Hailey and then she got all excited because she was about to pass him! :)
Tate loved watching the kids ride the go karts, he would run up to the fence, squeal at them, then run back to me - over and over and over.
Just a picture with me in it to prove I actually was there!
When everyone else went in to get clubs and golf balls for miniature golf, Tate and I hung around outside near this little car. He loved it and would pretend to drive. I thought it would be fun to put in a quarter and let him actually have it move - turns out I was wrong, he wanted nothing to do with it when it was moving. But as soon as it was done, back in he wanted to play some more. Good thing it was only a quarter! Silly boy!
Once they were ready, a grueling round of miniature golf began. Here's Zach - he's really getting good at this.
And Hailey. We're still working on making contact with the ball the first 3 or 4 swings, but she was still cute to watch!
Nana, Tate, and I just watched - we had already learned our lesson about Tate and mini-golf. Needless to say that if he were around and you hit your ball down the green, it wouldn't be long before it was picked up and either thrown or held on to. Not exactly the most enjoyable mini-golf experience, as you can imagine.
Needless to say, the kids had a great time at Mulligan's.
Another day we were there, Nana and Papa took the kids to a Children's Discovery Museum while I stayed at the hotel with Tate while he napped. We learned it's hard going on vacation with a little one that still needs to have a nap in the afternoon! Anyway, this was a day I forgot to send the camera with Jeremiah, so I don't have any pictures of the fun time they had, but from all accounts it was a wonderful time! They learned so much and had a blast with some hands-on experimenting.
The day before we headed up to Disneyland, we heard about a duck pond and thought the kids would absolutely love it. So Nana and Papa met us there and we spent some time feeding the ducks.
Zach absolutely loved chucking a whole handful of bread out and watching the ducks all fight for a piece.
Hailey was a bit more meticulous and would only throw out one or two pieces at a time.
Tate wasn't exactly sure what was going on, he has plenty of books with ducks in them, but had never seen any this close before. He kept an eye on the ducks behind us on the grass as well as the ones in front of us in the water.
The kids had a blast feeding them and the whole loaf of bread was gone before we knew it!
I was amazed at how many ducks there were there!
We had a blast on the first half of our vacation and loved spending time with Nana and Papa. Thanks for having us and taking us to such fun things!
More details to come on the second half of our vacation.
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Looks like you had fun with Jeremiah's family.
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