San Diego Vacation, Part 2

~~Point Loma~~

We went to this National Park in hopes that the tides were low so that we could get down there and play in the tide pools with the star fish:) Much to our dismay, the tides were high (..and I'm holdin on...Olivia Newton John..love that song, lol!!)...so that left us to hike some together and enjoy the beauty of this place.

Brant was the first to climb down to the bottom



Jacob loves being out doors and exploring! He found lots of "treasures"!





~~A Little Bit of Down Time~~
a little pillow fight
some silly faces
and a little monkey jumpin on the bed!

~~San Diego Temple~~ Marissa was SOO excited to see this beautiful Temple!! She calls it the "Princess Temple"! She used to seeing the Mesa temple, which is built more like a box, so this was so exciting for her to see.


I love the stained glass in this Temple!


I'll keep a copy of this for when she gets married, lol!




Brant's self portrait!
~~Sea World~~

This seal came up to us a couple of times.
The kids couldn't believe how huge Mr. Polar Bear was!!
Here's Jacob's FAVORITE! The Balooga Whale!! He knows every fact about it and was happy to share his wealth of information with everyone close by!


Pooped and tired by the end of the day!
We were sitting in the Splash Zone, but we weren't getting splashed, so Brant moved to the fourth row there...and he ended up soaked!!
He's right in front of the guy with the towel around his neck. They were on the first row and decided to move up a little, lol.



~Feeding the Sting Rays~ We have petted Sting Rays many times before, but never fed them. They eat Squid, so we bought a couple of trays.
So you stick it in between your fingers, like so....
...and then you stick your hand way down in the water with your hand horizontal. The Sting Rays then swim right over your hand and suck the food out from between your fingers! Once I felt it's "beak" and that freaked me out a little, but other than that, it was pretty cool.
Mr. Sting Ray is flapping a 'thank-you' wing at Brant!
We all loved the dolphins!

BizTown Fieldtrip!!!

This past Weds I went back to Biz Town, but this time I got to go with Jacob! We had a blast! Jacob ran to be the town Mayor a few weeks ago and did an awesome job on his speech!! His second choice for his "job" was to be the CPA for the Mall!! Boy did he have his work cut out for him!! The Mall consisted of 11 businesses, all of which had employees. Some of Jacob's responsibilities were to cut checks for all the employees, make bank deposits and pay bills. He worked hard and did a great job! Here is my independent little man setting up himself a bank account...

...and here he is setting up a savings account. He's so responsible!

BOINK!! Here he is with a GREAT IDEA!! Only great business men can think fast on their feet....Jacob...you're a stellar business man!!

I just had to photograph him concentrating and working hard :)
...and that didn't last long. Just Kidding:)
Here is one of his friends giving a speech at one of the Town Meetings
He wrote a friend a letter, so had to go purchase a stamp and here he's sending it off with a smile

Ethan working hard at the Surf Shop (in the Mall). He's getting all of his merchandise (that UPS delivered) ready for business! He has some really cool stuff for sale we loved the key chains!

Olivia was the Graphic Designer in the Mall. She custom made graphic designs for personal use or you could have one made for advertisement for your business.

Brian was the DJ at the radio station! We had fun listening to all of his groovy music!! The town was glad that he has good taste in music...although many people paid for him to play their request too!

Go DBacks!!! Here's Jacob taking a break at the Stadium

~~When the Kids go away...the Mommy's will Play!!~~
Jenny in the UPS store

Melanie and Allyson interviewing each other on the town tv station that is shown in tv's throughout the town.

We volunteers had to be at BizTown 1.5 hours before the kids arrived, which meant we had to be there at 7:30am...which meant we had to leave by about 6:45am! A bunch of us all rode together and that made being up and gone so early more enjoyable, lol!

The goal for all of the businesses in town was to pay off the loan that your business owed. At the end of the day, the Mall paid off our loan and made a profit of $198.00. The only problem that we had was that in the very end, we didn't get all of it deposited in the bank bc we had so much money coming in, it took the kids forever to get it all entered into the system.