For the holidays, Tim, Navi and I drove down to San Clemente where his parents had rented a vacation house for a week so that they could be close to all their kids. Jonny lives in San Diego, and Lizzie's house was actually in San Clemente, about 8 or so blocks away from the rental house! Timmy and I stayed in one of the rental house bedrooms because we live too far away!
On Christmas morning far too early to make me happy (3a!) Timmy woke me up. I stumbled around gathering my things and passed out in the car while he drove and drove and drove South. After a while, I woke up, and we switched so that I could drive. My mom gave me two watermelon lollies as a stocking stuffer, so I pulled those out when the drive got boring, and we slurped on those for a while. Very tasty. I love good old fashioned watermelon candies. We managed to drive without the GPS for a good while and not get lost. Somehow, it had frozen, and neither of us had picked up on it! When we realized it, we reset it, and discovered that we had been driving through LA for a while already! We were managing to slip through without much traffic! Yippee!!
We arrived at Lizzie's house around noon, and I got to meet her boyfriend, Brett. Lizzie suggested that we all head to the beach and go kayaking. They had three kayaks among them, which was perfect because Tim could go out while I watched the dog, and vice versa. They also had lots of extra kayaking clothes, so we all suited up and headed to the beach! Navi was really excited to be on the beach, and I got to learn how to do a t-rescue. I didn't get to try a full roll, though, because I got tired. I'm not really comfortable with being upside down in the water yet!
After that, we headed back to Lizzie's, and cleaned all the kayaks and kayaking gear. We packed it all up, put Navi in her crate, and drove down to San Diego to Jonny's place. Shortly after we arrived, Jonny left to pick up their parents from the airport. Lizzie, Brett, and I started dinner, which was stuffed chicken, green beans, and ...something else that I can't remember. After dinner was the present exchange. I was getting pretty sleepy at this point, and after a while we drove Joyce and Ron to their hotel (since we didn't get the rental house until Saturday) and then we headed back and fell asleep on Lizzie's floor.
The rest of the week included lots of fun! We went to a local farmers market, and poked around there. I discovered roly poly squash, which I think is such a silly name. We also found lots of flavored honey sticks, and grabbed a few. There was a stand full of candy / caramel apples, and of course, I tried a peanut caramel apple which was pretty yummy. The main street in town had a little doggy bakery, so I picked up two mini pupcakes for Navi! I normally wouldn't, but since it was vacation, Navi deserves treats too! The pupcakes were covered in a tower of very thick frosting, and pretty sprinkles on top!
We went to Balboa Park in San Diego, which has the spanish village, the san diego zoo, and lots of other things. At the spanish village, I picked up two new beads for necklaces. I also found a beautiful glass hummingbird feeder to replace the one that -sniffle- died. After wandering around for a while, we headed over to the San Diego Zoo and saw lots of animals. The San Diego Zoo is so big that I am always sick of animal watching by the end, and that is saying something because I really like animal watching. Timmy took a gadzillion photos of everything, so maybe I will add some of his photos here eventually! At one point in the zoo, we had a choice between the monkey walk and the tiger walk. Timmy told me, "we should go see the monkeys, because the tigers are always laying somewhere that you can't see." Then his parents veto'd his decision, and we went to the tiger walk anyway. Funny thing is the tiger was hiding in the grass when Timmy walked up. As soon as Timmy lifted up his camera, the tiger saw, and came crashing up the ladder towards the window to stare at Timmy. So Timmy got some amazing tiger photos. There was also a very cute polar bear who was playing in the water with a ball. He'd throw it, do somersaults in the water after it, eat it, and he was generally having a blast. He drew quite the crowd, and I watched him for quite a while.
After the San Diego Zoo, we were all ravenous so we went out for mexican food. Yummy! I tried one of those burritos that are fried...and I won't be doing that again. After that, we went to a very expensive dessert place in San Diego. Ten dollars for a slice of cake! It assaulted my senses. I ended up choosing the most complicated cake I could find; it had layers of mouuse, creme brule, chocolate cake, and a really thick chocolate goo. I picked it because I have no idea how I'd get creme brule into a cake. I figured that if it was going to cost $10 dollars a slice, it better be a complicated slice that I would never want to make myself. Timmy (willingly) and I (grudgingly) shared a slice and it was pretty delicious. Timmy is a lot smarter than I am, because after my half, I was about to die of a sugar coma. Silly me!
On one of the days, we went wine tasting! I'm not very sophisticated, and I only like wine with a high sugar content. They gave us six choices, and I immediately looked at the dessert wines. There were four dessert wines, so I had to try two other things. I finally went with two different white wines, which I didn't like. Then I got to the dessert wines, and two weren't so good. There was a port wine, and they made you drink it while eating chocolate, which was pretty cool. The second to last wine I had was a sweet white wine that I really, really liked. I never really like wine, so I bought two bottles! After that, we went to in-N-out because Ron had never had it before. It's a west coast thing, so you have to experience it! Then we went to the Wild Animal Park, which was more of a safari take on a zoo. There was a hummingbird aviary with a gorgeous hummingbird. It was kind of freaky because these birds are used to people being there. As a result, they will fly really close to your head! I couldn't get used to that. There was this section of the zoo that you can't see by walking. You wait in a very long line for about an hour, and you get onto a little train. The train takes you around, and you see these big pens where several different animals are combined. The lions are always alone, though. One lion was sleeping like Navi. At the zoo and the wild animal park, there were always a lot of ducks in any water bird exhibit. I wonder if zookeepers hate ducks. They probably eat a lot of the bird feed, and you can't exactly get rid of ducks, can you? There were a lot of ducks, so I think that even though zookeepers love animals, they must really hate ducks.
One of the days, Timmy, Lizzie and I went out for a nice road bike ride. We rode along the beaches and the water, and then doubled back and went up into the hills. While we were pedaling up the hill, Lizzie pointed ahead, and signed, "W-A-L-L" I looked up, and the hill got really steep! So we slowly panted and chugged our way up the hill, and conquered it anyway! Then we got our reward when we whizzed home at supersonic speeds! That same day, we also had a campfire on the beach. We had wooden skewers, and we had a fun time trying to toast the hot dogs without burning ourselves! Then we had s'mores, and mmmmm...s'mores. I love s'mores. Navi was really good at the beach, and just laid down next to us. We went out wading, and Timmy and I found a dead lobster. It was picked completely clean by whatever ate it. We put it on a rock (without touching it!) and carried it to shore to show everyone else. Lizzie picked it up with her bare hands, which freaked me out. Then we threw it back into the water. I also found some fun shells. I almost brought them home, but then I realized I'd do nothing with them. So I threw them back.
Another day, we went to the Getty Center in Los Angeles. It is this beautiful museum with amazing architecture and fun fountains. I didn't really like the art exhibits that much because it was mostly religious painting, but one exhibit was called "small trades." It was a collection of photographs of people of all different trades in all different areas, done a long time ago. It was funny to compare policemen from London, Paris, and New York. They all looked so silly and different! They had comparisons of all different trades, and locations. The only weird thing was they duplicated a lot of images...so you'd see the same image 4 or 5 times in the exhibit. I didn't understand why. Timmy spent the entire time trying to figure out what kind of rock the center was made out of. He was convinced that it was fancy poured cement, and I was convinced it wasn't. Turns out it was some fancy fossilized rock with a silly name.
On New Years Eve, everyone stayed up for the ball drop. I was engrossed in a book, but everyone played lots of board games and wii. When it got close to midnight, we turned on the TV to watch the ball drop. It said it was live programming, but it was of Times Square. How could it be live, when the ball dropped three hours earlier in NYC? I thought that was silly.
Then we went to bed and drove home the next day after cleaning up the house. It was fun, but I was glad to be home!
On Christmas morning far too early to make me happy (3a!) Timmy woke me up. I stumbled around gathering my things and passed out in the car while he drove and drove and drove South. After a while, I woke up, and we switched so that I could drive. My mom gave me two watermelon lollies as a stocking stuffer, so I pulled those out when the drive got boring, and we slurped on those for a while. Very tasty. I love good old fashioned watermelon candies. We managed to drive without the GPS for a good while and not get lost. Somehow, it had frozen, and neither of us had picked up on it! When we realized it, we reset it, and discovered that we had been driving through LA for a while already! We were managing to slip through without much traffic! Yippee!!
We arrived at Lizzie's house around noon, and I got to meet her boyfriend, Brett. Lizzie suggested that we all head to the beach and go kayaking. They had three kayaks among them, which was perfect because Tim could go out while I watched the dog, and vice versa. They also had lots of extra kayaking clothes, so we all suited up and headed to the beach! Navi was really excited to be on the beach, and I got to learn how to do a t-rescue. I didn't get to try a full roll, though, because I got tired. I'm not really comfortable with being upside down in the water yet!
After that, we headed back to Lizzie's, and cleaned all the kayaks and kayaking gear. We packed it all up, put Navi in her crate, and drove down to San Diego to Jonny's place. Shortly after we arrived, Jonny left to pick up their parents from the airport. Lizzie, Brett, and I started dinner, which was stuffed chicken, green beans, and ...something else that I can't remember. After dinner was the present exchange. I was getting pretty sleepy at this point, and after a while we drove Joyce and Ron to their hotel (since we didn't get the rental house until Saturday) and then we headed back and fell asleep on Lizzie's floor.
The rest of the week included lots of fun! We went to a local farmers market, and poked around there. I discovered roly poly squash, which I think is such a silly name. We also found lots of flavored honey sticks, and grabbed a few. There was a stand full of candy / caramel apples, and of course, I tried a peanut caramel apple which was pretty yummy. The main street in town had a little doggy bakery, so I picked up two mini pupcakes for Navi! I normally wouldn't, but since it was vacation, Navi deserves treats too! The pupcakes were covered in a tower of very thick frosting, and pretty sprinkles on top!
We went to Balboa Park in San Diego, which has the spanish village, the san diego zoo, and lots of other things. At the spanish village, I picked up two new beads for necklaces. I also found a beautiful glass hummingbird feeder to replace the one that -sniffle- died. After wandering around for a while, we headed over to the San Diego Zoo and saw lots of animals. The San Diego Zoo is so big that I am always sick of animal watching by the end, and that is saying something because I really like animal watching. Timmy took a gadzillion photos of everything, so maybe I will add some of his photos here eventually! At one point in the zoo, we had a choice between the monkey walk and the tiger walk. Timmy told me, "we should go see the monkeys, because the tigers are always laying somewhere that you can't see." Then his parents veto'd his decision, and we went to the tiger walk anyway. Funny thing is the tiger was hiding in the grass when Timmy walked up. As soon as Timmy lifted up his camera, the tiger saw, and came crashing up the ladder towards the window to stare at Timmy. So Timmy got some amazing tiger photos. There was also a very cute polar bear who was playing in the water with a ball. He'd throw it, do somersaults in the water after it, eat it, and he was generally having a blast. He drew quite the crowd, and I watched him for quite a while.
After the San Diego Zoo, we were all ravenous so we went out for mexican food. Yummy! I tried one of those burritos that are fried...and I won't be doing that again. After that, we went to a very expensive dessert place in San Diego. Ten dollars for a slice of cake! It assaulted my senses. I ended up choosing the most complicated cake I could find; it had layers of mouuse, creme brule, chocolate cake, and a really thick chocolate goo. I picked it because I have no idea how I'd get creme brule into a cake. I figured that if it was going to cost $10 dollars a slice, it better be a complicated slice that I would never want to make myself. Timmy (willingly) and I (grudgingly) shared a slice and it was pretty delicious. Timmy is a lot smarter than I am, because after my half, I was about to die of a sugar coma. Silly me!
On one of the days, we went wine tasting! I'm not very sophisticated, and I only like wine with a high sugar content. They gave us six choices, and I immediately looked at the dessert wines. There were four dessert wines, so I had to try two other things. I finally went with two different white wines, which I didn't like. Then I got to the dessert wines, and two weren't so good. There was a port wine, and they made you drink it while eating chocolate, which was pretty cool. The second to last wine I had was a sweet white wine that I really, really liked. I never really like wine, so I bought two bottles! After that, we went to in-N-out because Ron had never had it before. It's a west coast thing, so you have to experience it! Then we went to the Wild Animal Park, which was more of a safari take on a zoo. There was a hummingbird aviary with a gorgeous hummingbird. It was kind of freaky because these birds are used to people being there. As a result, they will fly really close to your head! I couldn't get used to that. There was this section of the zoo that you can't see by walking. You wait in a very long line for about an hour, and you get onto a little train. The train takes you around, and you see these big pens where several different animals are combined. The lions are always alone, though. One lion was sleeping like Navi. At the zoo and the wild animal park, there were always a lot of ducks in any water bird exhibit. I wonder if zookeepers hate ducks. They probably eat a lot of the bird feed, and you can't exactly get rid of ducks, can you? There were a lot of ducks, so I think that even though zookeepers love animals, they must really hate ducks.
One of the days, Timmy, Lizzie and I went out for a nice road bike ride. We rode along the beaches and the water, and then doubled back and went up into the hills. While we were pedaling up the hill, Lizzie pointed ahead, and signed, "W-A-L-L" I looked up, and the hill got really steep! So we slowly panted and chugged our way up the hill, and conquered it anyway! Then we got our reward when we whizzed home at supersonic speeds! That same day, we also had a campfire on the beach. We had wooden skewers, and we had a fun time trying to toast the hot dogs without burning ourselves! Then we had s'mores, and mmmmm...s'mores. I love s'mores. Navi was really good at the beach, and just laid down next to us. We went out wading, and Timmy and I found a dead lobster. It was picked completely clean by whatever ate it. We put it on a rock (without touching it!) and carried it to shore to show everyone else. Lizzie picked it up with her bare hands, which freaked me out. Then we threw it back into the water. I also found some fun shells. I almost brought them home, but then I realized I'd do nothing with them. So I threw them back.
Another day, we went to the Getty Center in Los Angeles. It is this beautiful museum with amazing architecture and fun fountains. I didn't really like the art exhibits that much because it was mostly religious painting, but one exhibit was called "small trades." It was a collection of photographs of people of all different trades in all different areas, done a long time ago. It was funny to compare policemen from London, Paris, and New York. They all looked so silly and different! They had comparisons of all different trades, and locations. The only weird thing was they duplicated a lot of images...so you'd see the same image 4 or 5 times in the exhibit. I didn't understand why. Timmy spent the entire time trying to figure out what kind of rock the center was made out of. He was convinced that it was fancy poured cement, and I was convinced it wasn't. Turns out it was some fancy fossilized rock with a silly name.
On New Years Eve, everyone stayed up for the ball drop. I was engrossed in a book, but everyone played lots of board games and wii. When it got close to midnight, we turned on the TV to watch the ball drop. It said it was live programming, but it was of Times Square. How could it be live, when the ball dropped three hours earlier in NYC? I thought that was silly.
Then we went to bed and drove home the next day after cleaning up the house. It was fun, but I was glad to be home!
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