The Mighty M Family

Today we drove out to Coronado Island to have lunch at the historic Hotel Del Coronado .  It was cold and windy and we were dressed for sun.  Brrrrrrrr! Lunch was delicious. And artistic. After lunch we drove to Belmont Park, which is an amusement park and entertainment center located on Mission Beach. They have a large wooden roller coaster, originally built in 1925. Hannah really wanted to go on it but when we got there we discovered she did not meet the 50” height requirement.  She took the news well. She cheered up not at all with a consolation ride on the carousel. After all that we still had time to go back to the hotel and hit the pool for a bit before dinner. Macy never got the memo about bringing a bathing suit.

We spent our first full day in San Diego at Sea World.  It was raining. We hit some rides. We saw some shows. The polar bears were sure excited to see us. It was a fun day. We left around 5:00 so Mickey and the kids could drive and pick up Macy, who was going to join us for the rest of our trip.  Then we headed to Old Town for some Mexican food.  And a margarita.  Super sized.

Grampy and Judy have a beautiful garden of succulent plants in Mexico.  Judy has put a lot of work into cultivating these plants and has turned a fairly barren landscape into a lush, green, gorgeous scene. 

On our second morning in Mexico we were reminded that the sun is much hotter than it is at home.   It was so cool on our first day that sunscreen somehow slipped my mind.  We spent the day at the casa. In the afternoon we decided to walk down to the beach.  And if by walk you think I mean hike down a mountain on a at times very steep and narrow trail dug out by a 90 year old resident you’d be correct.    I didn’t take any pictures on the way down as I was too busy holding on to Hannah for dear life while also keeping out a close eye for any snakes that wanted to attack me.  You never know. The beach was beautiful and we had it all to ourselves.  Eli was a little unsure about the water but Hannah and daddy had a great time playing! The surf was bringing in thousands of little baby animals of some kind (maybe lobster or crab).  Hard to tell but every little shiny dot in the below picture was one of those anima...