Ocean Beach!

We love Ocean Beach San Diego.





We spent a lot of time on the beach, although it was a little colder than we are used to. When we got to SD we went to Belmont Park to ride the Giant Dipper roller coaster. Doug and I were going to each take a turn riding but the man taking tickets offered to have Zander stand with him while we rode, sweet!

Here's Zan helping rip the tickets, it was the only pic I could catch before the coaster took off. Zander loved the bumper cars, of course. And he rode the boats and the carousel.

While in SD we also visited the Legoland Aquarium. It was neat!

We mostly just lounged on the beach. Zander flew his kit - no work required! Just let out the string and the wind carried it. Zander, Doug and I also played a lot of Frisbee!


Zander was getting pretty good! Lots of playing in the waves and sand. We collected a lot of neat sea shells I'd like to put into some sort of art project eventually.


Doug's sister Dani and her family were visiting her inlaws in SD so we met up with them for dinner at Hodads! We love Hodads and they did too!







We enjoyed our vacation and can't wait to go back!



All pics can be seen here.

a week ago - Ocean Beach picture post

Zan in the car

We tried to go to Legoland first, but when we got there we were told it was closed due to the rain. So we drove about 35 minutes back South and had lunch. By the time we got to our room and changed our clothes it was sunny. So our plans to be at the beach on Monday were switched but it turned out to be a good thing.




Why is it so hard to get a good picture of me and my kid?


Sand Castle


Totally wet. We played in the water for a while, it was so fun.


Zander wrote his name without any prompting.


He then wrote "Dad". And after that wrote Kyra, Anna and Guatam - kids in his class, lol.


The best part of sand castles - crashing them!


He got cold.

Monday Morning

We tried to go to the pier Sunday night but it was closed. It was still closed in the morning due to these intense waves. SO it ended up working out because the beach wouldn't have been a good idea on Monday.


Newsworthy waves. All the news crews were filming in the morning. We even watched one live interview on the beach from our balcony and on TV, it was kinda neat!


Not happy with the sun in his eyes.


There, that's better!


Strong but choppy waves, no one was surfing.


Yeah, he's huge.


While we were at the cliffs/tidepools the waves were huge. This guy got totally soaked so we stayed in as much as possible.




Zander took this one.


I like this one.


On our balcony, awesome beach view!




Attempt at a self pic.

There is more on my flickr. :-)

Ocean Beach trip!

Beach boy:





Eating at Hodad's:



Sunset (Zander was sleepy after playing on the beach):




We stayed at the awesome Ocean Beach Hotel:




We got up really early to go to the beach the next day:

Zander and the Monster


I can't decide which picture I like the most. The first was overexposed and highly photoshopped, ;)


Checking out the tide pools - we could see fish and crabs!



Back to the beach:


The view from our room:



Out on the Ocean Beach Pier:


We loved Hodad's so much we went back the next day:




And this is hard to read, but it cracked me up!

STOP! HAMMER TIME!

We had the BEST time, we can't wait to go back to Ocean Beach!
View the entire set HERE!