Our First Vacation with three kiddos….
Well, it definitely had its moments. It was a bit tough having three kids in a hotel room with us. We didn’t know what to do with ourselves once the kids were down at like 9pm. We sat outside our door on the beach for one night which was nice but it was so cold we couldn’t sit for long. We stayed at Paradise Pier Resort in a bayside room which was fun to stay on the beach. We were a bit dissapointed in the room itself. The only thing that faced the bay was the door. We did not overlook the bay from our room. We had to go outside our door to see the beach. A bit of a let down when you pay so much for a room.
We began our trip to San Diego and headed to LegoLand. It was fun for Dakota she was able to ride a lot of the rides but poor Hudson could only go on about three rides because he was not tall enough to go on most of them. So he sat out with Chase and I most of the time. It was a beautiful day and the park was not too packed. We left Legoland and went to get dinner and head to the hotel. We go takeout and then went to our room and ate. That night the kids were so excited to sleep in the same bed and Dakota could not understand the “hotel” aspect of the trip. Why were we staying in a hotel, what would we do there?? So her and Hudson were watching us wide eyed from their beds while we whispering a conversation to eachother- pretty cute. We got some cute pics of them snuggled together in their bed. Chase slept in his bouncey seat because he caught a cold shortly before we left for vacation.
The next day we got up and went out to the beach and the kids played. Chase was not a fan of the beach. He hated the wind. He would gasp for air every few minutes so I put him in his carseat and covered it with a blanket and faced him inland so he would not get he breeze. He did amazing the entire trip. He is about 4 months old and spent the 4 days pretty much in his carseat with all the traveling to Legoland and walking around everywhere. Then we took a walk after we showered around our beautiful grounds at the resort. It was very lush and green and had beautiful pool areas. We went out for lunch and then took a drive around to Coronado and around San Diego and then we went and got some dinner and after dinner we stopped at this little kids park on the bay while I nursed Chase and we saw about 30 boats all lit up lined up one by one taking an eve cruise through the bay and then we saw this monster Army ship come in- you could not even see it until it was right up in front of us, it was so cool. The kids played on the playground while we just sat and watched all the boats. That was my favorite part and it was not even planned. We made a lot of stops for nursing- it is just the season we are in…
The next day we played at the pool (definitely Hudson and Dakota’s favorite part of the trip) and ate lunch there. We got cleaned up and went on a Harbor Cruise which was hard because Chase was at his end and by now we were so tired of the kids disobeying, we were not able to discipline them as we normally would be consistent at doing so they became very overly tired and constantly melting down. After Chase settled down the cruise was pretty neat. I have pics of Dakota and Hudson all snuggled under blankets with Daddy. We got takeout at Anthony’s (our favorite place on the water) to eat because the kids were pretty much done by that point. We took it back home and then took the kids out for some smores at the firepit. They enjoyed that but Hudson decided he did not want a hot marshmallow, he just wanted a cold one- easy enough! We got them in their jammies and that made for another day.
Our last day we played a bit on the beach and then we went to Legoland and SeaLife Aquarium. We had another incredible day and headed home. As we were loading the kids in the car, Dakota asked for the map so she could look at it and see all the rides we went on. It was to be her souvenier, but Daddy accidently threw it away. So he drove me back to the entrance and asked me to go get the kids a souvenier to take home. I went in and we looked through the whole gift shop but Dakota only wanted a bag of cotton candy and a penny that says Legoland on it along with a map of course…. AAHHHHH how easily satisfied our kids can be at this age. So she made a penny to give to Hudson and we bought Daddy and I some ice cream and Hudson his favorite rice crispie treat and headed to the car to head home.
It was a fun-filled vacation which was very interesting and frustrating at the same time! Zach and I would often look at each other wondering if it was worth it all the times of meltdowns, tantrums, crying, whining. And…. you call this a vacation? So Zach decided we weren’t going to travel with our kids again until they turn 18!
