Summer Trip to San Diego

Grandpa and Mimi took Merrick to San Diego for three days. We didn’t really have a vacation this summer, and it was hard to get child care for three days, so we took him with us. He had a great time. He was really good in the car with his new Thomas Train toys and book, and… for the first time, we put DVD’s in the car for him to watch. He slept really well in the hotel on the floor. He loved having all our attention. We went to the San Diego zoo, and he was most fascinated by the tram. He called in the “boat up sky”. I thought he would be really afraid of it, but he loved it. He loved the hippos when they were right next to him in the underground water tank.

We went to Mission Bay and he played on the swings and slides. He played in the McDonald land slides, and on some business stops we visited a little place that had a horse, goats, kittens, puppies and roosters. He loved the sound of the rooster and tried very hard to copy the sound.

We went on a tour of a navy ship in San Diego, and he loved that too. It was a lot of walking and climbing, but he was a real trooper. He had to try and turn every turn handle and called it a car.

We visited Eric because he was there as well, and he and Merrick had lots of fun. He rode on his skateboard in his hotel room, and Eric took him on the merry go round.

Merrick and I got to swim at the hotel a little bit. He has a little life jacket that his mom bought and he just kicks and floats around and has a good time.