Vacation continued:

Not sure why that published right in the middle, computer ghosts.
Anyhoo, Once we got Ben on allergy meds every morning he was fine for the week.
Wednesday we made a trip to San Diego. I've never been to the Wild Animal Park, and it was cool, but we only stayed a couple of hours. It's inland and the heat was getting unbearable. Besides we were all anxious to get to Sea World. We had soo much fun there!. Of course we got SOAKED, the boys wanted to sit in the splash zone at the Shamu show and every other show. It was fun. Again, nice and empty park, so we got to go on the rides over and over with little to no waiting! Of course we had to hit the beach in San Diego too. We had dinner at this great pizza place looking out onto the ocean and then played until after sunset. Is there anything better than sunset on the beach? It was the first time the boys remembered watching the sun sink below the horizon. We have so many mountains around at home, it was great to watch the sky and the ocean changing colors.
Thursday we were back at Disney and California adventure. The boys must have gotten their love of roller coasters from me too, we had to ride California Screaming several times. I was not complaining! Again the park was deserted so we just walked around and got right back on.
It was really fun because I ran into my cousin Bryan and his family there. Neither of us knew we were going to be there at the same time till the day before and we just happened to run into each other. I'm sure the complete lack of other people around helped. :) It was really fun. I haven't seen him since his wedding nearly 10years ago. We were always buds growing up, so I was really excited to see him and his family.
We didn't want to spoil our empty park experience so we deciced to avoid the weekend and finish off our passes Friday. Good choice, by Friday night it was getting really crowded and I heard Saturday was crazy busy.
We went to Universal Studio's Saturday, probably won't go there again. Not a great place for the kids and since it's so far inland, BLISTERINGLY HOT. I love the heat, but dragging 4 kids around, through crowds and heat was miserable.
We left for home bright and early Sunday, 4 am early, Bryan's time table not mine. Although our opposite schedule work, I stayed up late packing, reading, working out, and slept most of the way home while he drove. Any yes, amazingly, the kids were even good for the entire drive home. I'm thinking in car dvd players are to be given the credit for that. How did people survive car trips before portable dvd players? :)
Any way, we all had a good time and the kids haven't stopped talking about when we can go back!
I'll try to get pictures up soon, I did post some to facebook if anyone wants to look on there.