Teaching Gretchen to smell the eucalyptus leaves

Cruisin'

The kids both slept in today past 7:30 (thank goodness) and we also finally have cooler weather. The breeze made it a nice morning for breaking out the shop vac so we could clean our dirty dirty car.

After a lunch of delicious chicken salad that nobody ate but me we piled in the car for a drive from Carlsbad to La Jolla while Gretchen took her nap.

We went to UTC and found that they did not have Patrick's favorite pretzels and yellow sauce. Bummer. We opted for a smoothie and See's chocolate suckers.

We played at the outdoor climbing area by Sears, and saw that ladies were walking out of the store with Land's End bags.

Apparently there's a huge partnership with the two and we decided to check it out. We left with a turquoise kids backpack that will be used for tomorrow's picnic lunch.

We'll share pics of where we went tomorrow!

The rest of the week

So we had so much fun at Legoland. Promptly that evening Gretchen started to vomit and has continued to do so until last night.

Sean came into town for the weekend on Friday (volunteering to get bumped and earning a $400 voucher to come back in 2 weeks for free). We took the kids to the beach Friday and they loved it. Gretchen was able to pause her sickness while we were out. Except, she was not able to be calmed down post beach for almost an hour. Sean and I waited in the Scripps emergency parking lot until we decided she was going to be okay. Saturday got to see Jenny. She and I went to a raw vegan restaurant (my crazy idea) and then sated our hunger at Pannikin with 2 unbelievably good mochas. We met up with the rest of us and took the kids to the park and my dad made an awesome rib dinner. So much for meat free.

Today, we did nothing. And it's been great. Well, not nothing. I tried to get another mocha from Pannikin but San Diego has been so crowded this weekend the line was waaaay too long. Patrick, Dad and I decided to check out the Leucadia farmers market. We're sitting in the backyard listening to the wind, watching Patrick run in circles, Patrick somersault and Gretchen follow.

She's finally better (we think) and our regularly scheduled vacation can commence as planned. We're cooking up some farmers market burger meat, grilled onions, sauteed mushrooms and fleur de sel caramel sauce on our ice cream. Yum.