We never went to Sea World while we were living in San Diego despite being a few miles away and hearing their fireworks show every night during the summer. I wanted to take the kids but with all the controversy about killer whales in captivity, I decided to stay away.…
Once we decided to go to Oregon and San Diego for our summer vacation, I started pushing to go to Universal Studios in LA. Beckett and I had just started reading the Harry Potter books in the spring and I was completely sucked into the Harry Potter world (Chuck and…
We were lucky enough to go to Legoland 3 different times while we lived in San Diego. The first time we went for Beckett’s birthday. The kids had a blast driving the cars, riding “The Dragon”, trying the Apple fries, riding the “Technic”, wandering around Miniland, and more. We even…
For Mother’s Day, Chuck surprised me with tickets for all of us to go Go-Kart racing. Definitely an out of the box Mother’s Day adventure! Strangely, the place was pretty darn empty on Mother’s Day. Shocking, I know! Within 15 minutes of arriving, Chuck and I were up. After a…