Staycation

Last week we finally took our long awaited vacation. In the beginning, we were supposed to visit Keith's sister in San Antonio over Spring Break back in April, but I was still sick. So we pushed our plans back to the first week in June thinking (hoping) I would feel better by then. As that day approached, I realized it was going to be too much of an endeavor for me to drive 20 something hours to get to Texas, so we changed our plans again. We chose a destination a little closer to home, San Diego, that way we would be able to visit my sister. Lucky for us we bought a vacation package with a cancellation policy because we eventually had to bail on that idea too because of this fun pregnancy. So, in the end we decided to stay at home and do some fun things around here that we'd never done before. It worked out well. We saved on a hotels, gas and Mom got to sleep in her own bed every night!

Sorry there are no pictures to go with this post. I'll probably regret not taking some later, I just didn't feel like lugging the camera every where we went.

We visited Pirate Island which turned out to be much better than Chuck E Cheese, especially for the adults. Our kids really enjoyed seeing Shrek 4 in 3D and visiting the Living Planet Aquarium. One day we spent up in Heber Valley eating at Dairy Keen, getting shakes at Granny's and riding the Heber Creeper (is it still called that). The last day of our vacation we spent up the canyon roasting hot dogs and eating a yummy dutch oven dessert made by Keith.

I had felt so guilty being the reason that our original vacation was cancelled, and then our next one as well. I really wanted to have one really good, last vacation before we become a family of 8. Lucky for me, we got one!!!