A Detour...

I apologize for these huge postings...I'm trying to remember all that we did during this summer! We were all packed and arrived to the airport to fly back to NYC... To find that our flight had completely sold out because of canceled flights and bad weather (we flew standby)...so that was my definite sign that we were supposed to head to San Diego, to meet Scott while he attended a Nurse Anesthesia Conference!! WOO HOO! To sum it up, it was the most relaxing, carefree vacation that I'm pretty sure I have ever experienced! So here goes all that went on...

My parents were the BEST to offer to drive the girls and I down there and they even got to stay a night and day! Thanks Mom and Dad! We of course had to stop by the McDonald's in Barstow for breakfast, eat in the train and Grandpa brought back my favorite "rock candy" for the girls! It's a tradition ya'll!



I'm just so glad we decided to make this trip! Anyways, next we stopped in Escondido at the Wild Animal Park. Ella's favorite exhibits were the Meercats and the Flamingos. Paisley's favorite was the petting zoo. She and Ella just fell head over heels over a small goat that had lost an eye because of an infection. Now if that isn't unconditional love, I don't know what is! THey kept making their way back to the same lonely goat to give it their TLC.

So we went on the bus tour of the park, which was very informative and fun! We saw the giraffe, elephants, rhino, all kinds of deer, lions, zebra flirting, red-eyed bulls. I loved the place, except for the very large amount of bees and hornets that were very thirsty and were EVERYWHERE. My kids were freakin' out and I wasn't a very good example at being still and not screaming and running in the first place either...thanks for putting up with us mom and dad.

Once we where in San Diego I told Scott, "There ain't no way you were gonna come down here alone for a week long vacation, without us!" We hadn't seen him in a month! It was a sweet reunion, we had missed our boy.