San Diego, CA

After Santa Barbara, we headed south 200 miles to spend 3 nights in San Diego! Our relatives, Uncle Rick and Aunt Leigh, live there. Their two sons are both in college - Greg is at UCLA and Kyle is at Duke - but we were lucky enough to visit at a time when both of them were home. We had so much fun hanging at their house!

Afternoon lunch at George's in La Jolla. What a fantastic view!



William loved playing in the yard. There are so many pretty plants, flowers, and even an apple tree. William got to eat a few of the apples from the tree.



William really, REALLY enjoyed playing with the two cats, Coco and Cinnamon. The cats were great with William, playing when they wanted and finding a place to hide when they wanted some down time.




On our first full day in San Diego, we went over to Pacific Beach, just a few minutes from Rick and Leigh's house. William had a blast building sand castles and we all had fun hanging at the beach. I even got to go surfing with Kyle - it was my second time this year surfing in the Pacific! We also saw a few dolphins!



William has gotten some good practice building sand castles this year.



Building sand castles is hard work and we have yet to build a "sand castle" but we are getting better.



A hand full of sand.



Trying out the long board.



Wow...Nora, you have put on weight! As we were leaving the beach, we saw someone with this BIG pet pig!



After the beach, we headed to Pizza Port for a snack and a few local microbrews. Here is William, Daddy, Uncle Rick, and Kyle. Uncle Rick is Chris's Godfather, and Chris is Kyle's Godfather! It was a blast to hang with them.



William really loved playing with all of cousin Greg's old Dinosaurs, he has quite the collection. It was so nice of Rick and Leigh to pull out Greg and Kyle's toys for William to enjoy.



One of his favorite toys was this grabber. He played with it all day, every day.





More shots from our lunch at George's in La Jolla. On the bottom right hand corner there are some seals hanging out.



Enjoying the nice view.



Uncle Rick snapped this pic of Chris and I.



Thanks again Uncle Rick for treating us to this wonderful and delicious lunch with a view.



After lunch, we walked down to the ocean to explore the beach and some cool caves!



Here is a little crab, one of the many we saw along the caves on the La Jolla coast.



William and I exploring the La Jolla caves







William really enjoyed playing in the water. He is a natural ocean boy.



William and Uncle Rick bonding over family photos, including photos of Coco and Cinnamon!



We are so grateful for the time we got to spend with our relatives in San Diego, and for the incredible hospitality! We all had so much fun together. Thanks Rick, Leigh, Greg, and Kyle!!