Sunny San Diego

For the avid blog readers out there (mainly family, I would imagine), you are probably thinking to yourselves, 'Man, those guys are having so much fun that they haven't blogged in like 3 days!!!' While we are having fun, we haven't been overly busy, it just was seeming redundant to blog the same thing 3 days in a row, so I stored up some ammo to have a worthwhile entry...

We arrived in San Diego late Saturday evening. We woke up Sunday morning and left our trailer around 8:30am to head out to Lake Forest California to visit Saddleback Church. It is a huge church. I expected it to be huge, but it is really, really huge. It has its own traffic system (lights, etc..), a huge 3 storey parking garage, multiple buildings, beautiful landscape with fountains, little streams, an awesome outdoor baptismal, it really gave me that 'WOW' factor that I was expecting, and the crazy thing is when you are expecting a WOW it usually doesn't happen, but this did. It was awesome to see how God has been blessing people through the church, and to imagine that this was a little church plant of only a few was great. God is good, and we were encouraged by being there, not only through the experience, but also through the teaching and worship.

this is the only good pic we have of the church

After church on Sunday we did the Christian thing and went our for lunch and then shopping. Nothing too special.

The next day we were all a little baked so we stuck around Campland and I did some reading, the kids helped mom with laundry, and then the boys and I went for a little swim in the pool. After the pool we came home, had some dinner and had a campfire and went to bed.

he did alot of looking not alot of swimming

this guy loves the water, as long as he can touch the bottom

check out those biceps
Yesterday was sort of the big day in terms of the reason we came this way. We went to the San Diego Zoo for the day. It was really fun, tonnes of walking, but the kids had a blast! It was your typical zoo, animals caged up, and people telling us how they love being in their recreated 'natural habitats'. You should have seen the polar bears, there was nothing natural about that...(just for the record I am not an animal activist, I love eating dead animals, I just think they should be a bit more honest about the whole thing). But we saw EVERYTHING and did the bus tour to boot. The kids thought the bus ride was cool and Tyler's favorite animal was the giraffe's, ironically they didn't actually have giraffe's. Here are some pics from our day

self explanatory

JJ filling the tank before another round of walking, sno-cones yummy me and Kel
the boys playing over the lion cage...just kidding, they were ducks or something (why have ducks at a zoo???)the fam on the busmy girls suckin' facedad and JJ eatin' some chipstoken animal picture (random elephant fact: did you know that elephants have thousands of tiny, ultra sensitive nerve endings on the bottom of their feet and they can feel vibrations in the ground that most animals cannot feel. during the recent tsunami just hours before the water hit the land the elephants were all running for the mountains, elephants were breaking chains to free themselves and running wild, because they could feel the earth quake in their feet...crazy huh?)

Today the girls are going shopping and the boys are hanging around the trailer, reading, playing, and stuff like that. Tonight is our last night here and we think we are going to a place called Carlsbad Beach for a couple of nights (dry camping, right on the beach again) and then no idea after that...any suggestions????