Last week Jana and I took the boys on a fun family vacation in Southern California. We drove our van and hit up Sea World for a day and Disneyland / Disneyland California Adventure for 3 days. We planned on doing a day in Lego Land, but our first day in San Diego was rainy and so we bagged that. After that, the weather turned beautiful, upper 60s and perfect for all the walking we were doing. Highlights were the dolphin and whale shows at Sea World, Jackson being trained by a real Jedi and fighting Darth Maul and all the rides at Disneyland that had virtually no lines. It was a perfect time of year to go.
On our way to California and back we spent a night in Las Vegas to break up the driving. I decided that Vegas isn’t that fun if you’re married with kids, not gambling or partying and not seeing any shows or concerts. The rooms at The Excalibur were way nice, but the pool / hot tub were not open past 5:00 pm! What’s the deal? Plus the casinos the smoke and the traffic…
Jana blogged a bit more detailed about our trip of you’re interested: Family Vacation!, The Beach and SeaWorld!, Disneyland, Disneyland, Disneyland. In fact, since I’m such a slacker at blogging about stuff, I’ll probably leave most of the family stuff up to her blog and I might try to focus this blog on more design, web development and Flash focused stuff.
Photos on my Flicker Set: Disneyland / Seaworld Trip…
I can totally relate to the Vegas with family comment. We also stopped there in December on our way to California and got stuck an extra night due to that freak snow storm! Fun in the pool would have normally saved us but the snow kind of screwed that up!