After a very comfy night in our room Sunday we woke up just in time to pack up but our trip wasn’t quite done yet. Before heading home we took a trip further up the mountain to a small western town to take in a cute show, down-home cooking for lunch, and after walking off lunch making sure we got some apple pie that was delightful!
Have i mentioned how much we love our family and time with them is never enough? Well we had such a great opportunity to go spend some time with my brother in law and sister in law, niece and nephew! This time happened to fall right on our anniversary weekend which turned out to be a great gift from them. Philip and Olga graciously shared their timeshare with us in Ramona, Ca that is located near the San Diego wildlife park. So we spent 2 nights and 2 days letting the kids play until their hearts content and if anyone knows these 4 they could be together forever, despite occasional normal cousin challenges they just loved being together! The best part was the wildlife park. Its very different from the San Diego zoo. Although less types of animals since this park only holds animals that are in danger of being extinct so they are in charge of breeding to save their species, the park is quite large since the habitats are much larger than any zoo I’ve ever seen before to give the animals more of a realistic home environment. Carissa and Nathans favorite part was the bird show, especially since at the moment their favorite movie of the year is Rio. The show was filled with lots of exotic birds flying right over head, and one cockatoo giving a great show with his funny mimics. At the end of the day we all had exhausted mommy’s and daddy’s oh and of course children but it was a great success since we conquered 90% of the park and saw all the special events we planned on seeing. David and I predicted that Carissa and Nathan would crash and although Carissa denied ever being tired and refused to believe that she would be asleep by the time we got to the resort she proved herself wrong ;-) Overall it was a fun filled day taking in all of Gods amazing creations!!
Ok well maybe not roughing it seeing as though I ate more food than dinning at a Vegas buffet…….but compared to some who say they camp we roughed it ;-) Camping is seriously one of my favorite vacationing activity!! We got a taste of it when we were in AZ since my mom and dad brought out a little children's camp play set, all you need for smores and yes a big camp fire in 100* heat, many of my favorite things that got me so excited for our church campout which was 2 weeks after we returned from AZ. Well lets not kid ourselves I was super excited when we got the go ahead to plan our church campout this year!! We are so blessed to have people in our lives like those in our church! They are so dear to us and we are so thankful to the Lord for them. I fully intended on having a completely relaxed time but there just were too many fun and exciting things to do and since there were some first timers we had to be sure to “initiate” them. No we didn’t jump them in or anything but there are some classic hiking areas that they have to experience as well as the best dessert I have ever experienced toastie eyed fries, what no….. toadies ties, I mean toast tight pies! hehe yea had to be there ;-) There were some first experiences for David and I as well our first hike was interrupted by a downpour of rain which was very unexpected or else I would have closed our tent window, than our 8 person tent broke and we had to move into a 4 person tent only we could only get 3 of us in there, but of course all this just adds to the experience and family memories! I could go on and on but there might not be enough room for pics so I’ll let them explain themselves ;-) enjoy!
