Our camping trip--Day Trip to San Diego

Our whale-watching cruise ship. Bryce and I had a misunderstanding about the Dramamine and ended up not taking it with us on the boat. This resulted in our 3-hour excursion being THREE HOURS OF TORTURE. There was barfing, crying, and cursing, the high point being when our chipper captain said, "Folks, you may have noticed we've slowed down--one of our engines is out. But we'll try to get it up and running just as soon as we can. We'll probably be about an hour late in getting back ot the harbor."

Luckily the engine was miraculously fixed, the rough water stopped, and we started to feel better. The only one fit for the sea was Harrison. Ironic, because he was in one of his "moods" and was by far the least cooperative/pleasant passenger on the boat.

Tyce and Mary Rachel spent most of their time up on deck with the binoculars . . . until they got too sea sick and came inside to, uh, recover.

Rebecca and Harrison. Don't let his cute smile fool you.

A beautiful view of Point Loma and its lighthouse.

Sea lions on a buoy. Looks like a nice way to spend the morning.

You have to click on the picture--and then look really close--but you can see the dolphins. We saw three types of dolphin: Risso's, common, and bottlenose. But no whales. Because we were denied the main attraction, we actually got a refund in the form of another free cruise. (Not sure what we're going to do about that.)


After the whale-watching cruise we went to Old Town San Diego, mostly because Tyce was begging to go to a good Mexican restaurant. No complaints from me.

Our first stop was the Mormon Battalion visitors center, where the super nice sister missionaries kept exclaiming how cute our children were. They dressed up the kids and told them a little about what it would have been like to have been a soldier. We saw a really good video that Tyce and Mary really liked.

The boys dress up and look appropriately determined..

"I'ma shoot us some squirrel for dinner tonight, boys!"

Our little soldiers.

Then we went to a Mexican restaurant for lunch. Bryce makes Harrison laugh, to keep him from running away again.

Tyce needs a big sombrero to cover his big brain.

My favorite picture of ALL! I told Bryce to do bunny ears behind me so everyone would look my direction. You can see that they all reacted to that . . . click on it so you can see their expressions.