• Sea World San Diego

    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.…

  • Legoland California

    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…

  • Go Kart Racing!

    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…

  • Blue Angels and More at the Miramar Air Show

    When we moved to San Diego, we rented a house for a couple of weeks in Mira Mesa.  The backyard opened onto a canyon that turned out to be one of the main flight paths of the Marine’s F/A-18 Hornets so we’d hear them and see them flying every day,…