San Diego Zoo and the beach

I decided that I couldn't do one blog entry to cover the entire vacation so I will do an entry for each of the major things we did. Sorry for the play by play entry-but then I will remember everything better :) We left here on Thursday of last week right after I got off work and headed down to Cedar City to stay with Teresa and Chase and to help cut down on the drive time the next day. They had dinner all ready for us when we got there and it was fun having Teresa teach me how to make strawberry jam :) But the best was Teresa's home made wheat bread-yummy!
We got an early start on Friday morning for San Diego. The kids were awesome in the car-we got through a lot of movies and a nice long nap from them. It was actually a pretty pleasant drive-except the chaos of Las Vegas traffic. We went to the beach once we got to San Diego. It wasn't very warm so we just walked along the beach, found sea shells, watched the sea lions and ate sandwiches. Cole had fun letting the waves come over his feet and Luke wanted to be just like big brother but was not quite as fast and ended up falling in the water-oops! He and Ellee also had a hard time getting used to the sand going between their toes-they were not happy with it.
Saturday was spent at San Diego Zoo. I love the zoo and it was lots of fun-and lots of walking! That zoo is huge!!! It was kinda cold so there were a lot of animals not coming out-so we were a little bummed that we didn't see all the animals. The kids loved the sky ride and the bus tour around the zoo. It was fun looking for "Alex, Gloria, Moto-Moto, Melman, and Marty" and we were successful finding each one of them. It was lots of fun! We especially loved the baby gorilla-I think Ellee would have stayed there watching it all day if we would have let her. We were completely spent when finished up at the zoo.