the rest of San Diego

Just Chad and the kids went to visit the zoo the one evening for a few hours:





Here are some pics of us at Java Mama:




A quick trip to the beach on our last day:







some dancing on the couch!

san diego road trip

One weekend in San Diego we decided to do the road-trip that we had done nearly 3 years ago. Although this time we took a slightly different route and didn't almost run out of gas!

Here we all are with snacks and drinks:




Over the pass there are mounds and mounds of boulders and rocks:


The badlands. This is a very remote stretch of highway and so I did not want to get out of the car because I was worried about what would happen if someone got a snakebite or something. Chad decided to get out anyways and I kinda freaked out which made the kids freak out and then I felt like a bad mom :( I shouldn't have made the kids scared. At least it was a pretty sight.
remote highway as you can see:
see the moon?

Once we got out of the dessert we went thru valleys and hills:

We ate at town called Julian which is home to some famous apple pie. The food was good but apparently we got the pie from the wrong place because the crust was still doughy!

As we get closer to the coast there are many orchards of oranges:
All in all a fun day, the kids did very good for being in the car nearly 6 hours!