New Years Weekend in San Diego

We hope you all have a happy, fun, and healthy 2010.
We spend our New Year weekend in San Diego. For us, we look forward to spending all holidays in San Diego except for Thanksgiving which we love to spend it with Jacob's family in North Carolina. I love driving through the Smoky Mountains in the Fall, it is gorgeous that time of the year there.
So here are several pictures of our quick trip to San Diego.


Apparently the sand dunes is the place to be over the New Years weekend. That is if you're into that kind of stuff. There were lots of RV's, pretty cool sight. I wouldn't mind experiencing that but unfortunately we don't know of anyone that has an RV.
I couldn't really get many good pictures of all those adrenaline junkies on quads, dirt bikes and the dune buggies, they were too fast. I did manage to get these.

At my parents place now. Nathan opening his gifts from the grandparents.

Cool beans!! He loved this one the most.

Getting lunch together

Sydna in charge of the pork meat for the tacos

eating al fresco

after their food settled they played soccer

Now resting a bit

I apologize for the poor quality in these next few pictures. They were taken from my camera phone. This is the Christmas tree in the lobby of the Hotel Del Coronado.

Can't really see them that clear but the tree's theme was snowmen and other pretty decorations.

This is what the Del looks like at night. Pretty!

The following morning. Nathan and grandpa arm wrestling. Nathan won of course! (wink)

Hi. We're now in Seaport Village having lunch on Saturday afternoon.

This and other silly seagulls were trying in vain to get our food. Nathan kept shooing them away.

Sydna taking in all the beauty around us. Those two glass buildings there is the Marriott.

Here the kids trying to climb the tree which Jacob had to rescue Sydna from because she got stuck and ended up getting a big scratch on his hand.

That bridge back there is the Coronado Bay Bridge taking you to and from Coronado. The body of water you see is the San Diego Bay that is surrounded by Downtown San Diego, Coronado and Point Loma.

Me and my husband.

Where's Nathan?!

Lots of people have told Jacob that he looks like Adam Sandler. Do you agree?

A few of the many sailboats we saw on the Bay.

I believe this is called the Hornblower. It takes you on a tour around the Bay and describes its history.

Art

We were driving on the Coronado Bay Bridge into Coronado. That's the Bay and the land you see there is a small part of Coronado. That in the distance is Point Loma.

This is Silver Strand Beach, on our way out of Coronado and driving into Imperial Beach.

On the day we left. Jacob and the kids with my parents. I did take one with them but I came out hideous because the sun was too bright and didn't like the way I came out so I decided to put this one on here instead. Hope to visit again soon.

Taken from my camera phone. We're at Cracker Barrel in Marana. Stopped there for dinner.

Nathan watching intently as Jacob plays that game (forgot what it's called). Jacob's mastered it though. We bought one several months ago and he's been playing it since.

This is all folks. Our short but fun trip. Hope you enjoyed it.