Thanks Brian...and Jill

Dy's brother-in-law rented a house near San Diego (Carlsbad to be exact) and invited the whole Martin clan to come and free load for a week. The agenda was packed full of the typical SoCal attractions; Disneyland, Sea World, the beach, Legoland, and for us it also included a Padres game. Brett's old roommate also lives in San Diego so we spent an evening with Kevin, too.

It was fun to get away for a bit for a pretty relaxing vacation. It didn't hurt that Brian and Jill made it pretty inexpensive for us, too. We are trying to petition for Hawaii or the Caribbean next time. :)

Here are some pictures from the week.

Just playing with some starfish at Sea World. For all of the places the Martin's have invaded as a family, surprisingly this was the first time at Sea World.

Just petting a dear at the San Diego Wildlife Park...or something like that.


Probably the funniest part of the park was watching the birds flying all over to drink the nectar out of our hands. Between Dy and Chelsea, we got quite the entertainment.


Doesn't Brian look so happy on the merry-go-round?


We stopped by the San Diego Temple before going to Cameron and Rachel's (Dy's brother) for church on Sunday. It sure is a beautiful building.



Dy was a good sport and went to a Padres game with Brett. That really is one of the nicer parks in the majors. We enjoyed some first row seats in left field and obviously had our ballpark brats for dinner. Good times.


Although overall Legoland was definitely more of a place for kids (as we expected), we really enjoyed "Miniland" that had cities built out of legos. New York City (above), San Fran, Vegas, New Orleans...it was pretty cool.


Dy being Dy.


After waiting for 25 minutes and thoroughly captivated by the log flume, Ethan changed his mind once he got splashed.