Day 21- USS Midway

By Michelle Kempe on Mar 12, 2015 in California, General | 0 comments

Today we explored  a floating city at sea and relived nearly 50 years of world history aboard the longest-serving Navy aircraft carrier of the 20th century.  Exhibits ranged from the crew’s sleeping quarters to a massive galley, engine room, the ship’s jail, officer’s country, post office, machine shops, and pilots’ ready rooms, as well as...

Day 20 – Cabrillo National Monument

By Michelle Kempe on Mar 11, 2015 in California | 0 comments

Today was an exciting day.  We started are trip to Cabrillo by exploring tide-pools. The rocky intertidal zone, on the western side of Point Loma, is a window into the ocean ecosystem along San Diego’s coast.  Periods of low tide cause pools of water to form along the shore in rocky depressions. In them, you can see an assortment of colourful plants and...

Day 19 – Coronado Beach

By Michelle Kempe on Mar 10, 2015 in California | 0 comments

Voted the #1 beach in America by Dr. Beach. Coronado Beach in San Diego is a 1.5 mile long, wide sandy beach set against the backdrop of mansions and the iconic Hotel del Coronado with its peaked red roof and classic Victorian architecture.  It was a wonderful day for lounging around on the beach.  The girls surfed, body surfed, built sand castles and soaked up the...

Day 18 – Old Town San Diego

By Michelle Kempe on Mar 9, 2015 in California | 0 comments

Old Town San Diego is a state protected historical park that commemorates the town’s early days and includes many historic buildings from the period 1820 to 1870. Five original adobes ( mud brick building like we built in Thailand) are part of the complex, which includes shops, restaurants and museums. Other historic buildings include a schoolhouse, a...

Day 17 – Heading to San Diego

By Michelle Kempe on Mar 8, 2015 in California | 0 comments

We started the day with another trip to the pool.  The girls have loved this campground.  The warm pool, the big clean showers, and all the orange trees.  They are very sad to be leaving but we comforted by the fact that we will be returning in a week to spend some more time with Ryan and Jessica. Once we had camp backed up, we headed out for San Diego.  The only...

After seeing and exploring so many new things, we were all in need of some down time.  We did laundry – amazing how nice it is to have clean clothes and sheets and frolicked by the pool for most of the day.  We also had pool Olympics.  It was a tight race for Kaatje and Kaelyn.  They both left daddy in the dust as they completed 3 laps of the pool without a...