San Diego Day 4

For our final day in San Diego, we visited the USS Midway and the San Diego Zoo.

The Midway was fabulous! We loved looking at the giant aircraft carrier and seeing all the retired aircraft that reside there. Lincoln was fascinated with all the helicopters and airplanes. I think he was surprised at how big they are when standing so close.



Lincoln's favorite part of the Midway was sitting in an old cockpit from a fighter jet. The inside of the cockpit is jam packed with buttons, knobs, switches, levers and all the other things that Lincoln loves to play with.




You can't get the full idea of how huge this ship really is by looking at any of these pictures so I found this picture on the web. Look and be amazed....



I still don't think the picture does the ship justice. It's hard to illustrate the enormousness of this vessel. We had a great time at the Midway. We knew it was time to leave when Lincoln launched a Midway souvenir baseball from the gift shop straight at a shelf full of coffee mugs and shot glasses. We took that as our cue to head for the door.




After the Midway, we took off for the San Diego Zoo. Fortunately, one of the parents of my students had 2 free admission tickets for us to use. Otherwise, this fun little trip to the zoo would have cost us 100 bucks! Lincoln decided to be consistent with our previous trips to the zoo by finding more fascination with the water features than with the actual animals. Thus, the picture of the waterfall. Unfortunately, I didn't get very many pictures of anything else at the zoo. I was not thinking.


Although our lunch at the zoo cost 30 bucks for a cheese burger, chicken strips and bottled water, an exotic bird pooped red stuff all over our stroller, the girl driving the shuttle almost had a head on collision with a golf cart, and David almost had a heart attack from wheeling up a gigantic incline, (seriously people...this hill was loooooong and steep. My hubby is a stud muffin.) we had a great time.

After wearing ourselves out at the zoo, we headed back to the hotel for some shut-eye to rev up for the long drive home in the morning.

Our vacation was great. I am SO glad we went. We had lots of laughs and made a lot of memories too. More vacations are definitely in our future.