San Diego Trip Part 3 - Beach Fun & the Pool

We took the kids to the beach to play while we were in San Diego.  They had a blast collecting sea shells, digging in the sand, and seeing the sea creatures.  They found a starfish, a ray (at least I think that is what it was), and they saw seals swimming nearby.  They don't get to see wildlife like that where we live!

T.J. and the dead ray.

Grant and Jaymon

Ray digging in the sand.

Tylor, Coleton, and Dyllon were working hard on their sand creation.

Skinny little Cole just couldn't keep those shorts on!

Me and Nichole

Cousins burying each other.

Ryon keeping a lookout to make sure no kids drowned or ran too far away down the beach.

Taylor looking handsome (as always)!

Grant was not so happy covered in sand - especially when he had to go wash it off in the cold ocean water!

On a different day we went to La Jolla Cove.  There were a lot of seals out playing a short distance away.  Those are seals all over the edge of the land in the above picture.

Nichole and I and the kids.

The highlight of this day was the kids trying to catch little crabs that were down in the water between the rock cracks.  We did not know about this activity beforehand, so we were not prepared, but  a nice lady gave them each a piece of string with a small piece of meat tied on it to try to "fish" for crabs.  Jaymon was so excited!

Here are the boys trying to catch a crab.

Jaymon, Ray, Taylie, and Janna

This is what the crabs looked like.  Our kids did not end up catching any, but we borrowed this one from some other people to take a picture!

Ray loved this big rock and was playing "King of the Rock" by himself.

Ryon and Nichole

Taylor and Ray

One of the kids' favorite activities of the trip was swimming everyday at the hotel pool. 

The older kids would have races across the pool and try to do synchronized diving.

The hot tub was also a big hit with the kids.

That is a lot of heads in that hot tub!  We kind of overtook the place!  :)