San Diego (Day 1)

We surprised the kids with a "baycation" as Hallie calls it and took them to San Diego.  They didn't find out they were going until we woke them up at 330 in the morning.  Ha.  I have TSA Pre-check so I took the kiddos through the security line with me.  Jeremy got stuck with Hallie's bag that I had put Play-Doh in. Apparently, Play-Doh sends off all kinds of signals as being potentially bad.  Needless to say...Jeremy got the full search. 

Meanwhile...the kids and  I just giggled.  But Jeremy got the last laugh when I realized I left my phone in the car so I had to go back through security.

Major picture overload....

Hallie and I were busy coloring on the way to San Diego.  She made a picture for the "drivers" of the plane.  Luckily, this isn't the one she gave them...but we found it very funny that she wrote "Bad".  LOL. 

We arrived in San Diego about the same time we left Dallas (thank you time change), and spent the entire first day at LEGOLAND in Carlsbad.  As soon as we arrived, we got a rental car and drove about 40 minutes.  The kids loved it (and so did we).  It really was a fun place to go.  My parents met us at LEGOLAND and surprised the kids as well. 

The kids were so tired.  This was about 10 minutes into the car ride.  

We arrived just in time for the park to open.  I had actually not planned on going to LEGOLAND until the following day but it worked out that we got to Carlsbad much earlier than originally planned!

View from our hotel room...

Pierson's first choice was the new Ninjago ride.  It was so fun!

We were on vacation...so why not spend too much money on getting the kids faces painted?!?!

Hallie was shy when it was her turn to meet some of the Lego characters...

 

Pierson was soooo excited the entire time we were there!

One of the neatest things we saw was this mini city.  It was so much fun to look at.  Washington DC, New York, China Town, San Fran, etc.

It was such a fun first day, but the kids (and us) were so tired by the end of the day.  We were still on Texas time, so we called it an early night.  The weather was amazing the first day we were there and I think we got pretty lucky as far as the crowds go.  It really wasn't too bad.  We never really had to wait more than 20 minutes for a ride.