Tuesday, July 22, 2008

San Diego/Sea World

I really wanted to have a little getaway before our little girl arrives. We wanted someplace close that I could use my Hilton hotel points at. We both really enjoy San Diego and I found an Embassy Suites located across from the Seaport Village. That was our first time staying in that area. Embassy Suites is great because they have a free made to order breakfast (yummy!) and manager's reception in the evening (free booze). We stayed at one in Anaheim (Disneyland) a few years ago and drank ourselves silly between 5:30 and 7:30.. this time was a little different. :)

Anyhow we both worked on Friday and left town in the afternoon. It was a long drive with traffic the first part of the way but we arrived around 7:00 at our hotel. The next morning we woke up and took our time. We were off to Sea World and knew we were going to stay until dark to see Shamu at night and the fireworks. We arrived around 1:00 and were there until 10:00! That's alot of walking. Good thing we walked as much as we did because we got two huge scoops of ice cream in a waffle cone before night came. Good stuff!! I proceeded to get chocolate ice cream on my belly but these days everything seems to land there.

By the end of the night, I felt like I was waddling more than actually walking but Matt helped me through it and we slept well that night. We aren't one to ask others to take our photo so most of our shots (the few there are) are self portraits.. gotta love the extremely unflattering close-ups AND we took our baby girls first photos at Sea World. I know they don't count but she was kicking around that day and seemed to enjoy herself just fine.




The next day we headed back home and stopped to order a chair for the nursery. (As always baby was on the brain.) Actually it saved us an additional trip into the valley. (We ordered from the same place we got the nursery furniture so hopefully they arrive around the same time and get delivered together). We got this chair and ottoman in a dark brown figuring it can be used in the future in a bedroom or even living room.



That's it for the big stuff that needed to be ordered in advance. Now all the little stuff.... 

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