Swimming in San Diego

Today we cruised down to San Diego to spend time with Aunt Eileen, Uncle Bruce and Marci. The kids were excited to go swimming there, but disappointed about the lack of kids their age. We got there in time for lunch, and then the kids had a blast swimming with Daddy and Uncle Bruce and Laura got to use her Big Bird float. Joshua and Benjamin had races across the pool.

After we had dried off, we went to a playground at the local 5th and 6th grade school. It was a very unusual playground with odd, futuristic things to climb on and spin instead of traditional monkey bars, slides and swings (unfortunately I left my camera at the house, so I don't have any pictures). Laura was determined to climb up to the highest points and then complain she needed help to get down, so she didn't like it when I forbade her to so high that I couldn't rescue her.

For dinner they took us to their favorite Chinese restaurant by "the swamp" where Marci had recently celebrated her 16th birthday. The kids liked the food, but by this time Laura was so tired that she fell asleep on her dinner plate. She woke up when we picked her up to leave and demanded a fortune cookie. Unfortunately, due to this nap, she stayed awake on the car ride home and kept asking where we were going. She is eager to go back to NJ so that grandma can paint her nails.