San Diego

The Sunday we were in California, we drove down to San Diego so we could go to church with some of Ben's family.  Mitch, Addy and I took off after sacrament meeting to do some sight-seeing.  

Our first stop was the Mormon Battalion Museum/Tour.

It took about an hour to go through the tour but it was such a neat place. They told us they went through and redid everything about a year ago so it was very updated and well put together.  After the tour, we got to go out on the patio and experience some of the things the soldiers did.  

Such as brick laying,

laundry washing (scrubbing),

and panning for gold!

After the Mormon Battalion Tour, we headed over to this little Mexican restaurant called Fidel's for lunch. When Mitch was in his younger years, their family would get a condo in San Diego and Fidel's was one of their favorite places to eat so I was excited to try it out. 

It was very delicious and since it was also Mother's Day, I got a free dessert. Which we quickly devoured. 

Our next stop was the temple grounds.  Just as we were getting there, it started to rain on us. Luckily we'd brought the umbrella with us but most of our pictures turned out pretty blurry :( Highlights of this stop were; Addy trying to sing, I love to see the temple to which she just said over and over "luv de tempa" but she said it with the right tune and she kept pointing at the temple and saying "Jesus house".  I was one proud mama!

I so wish she was actually looking at the camera in this picture because it would've been such a nice shot.

My favorite!

Our final destination was the Point Loma Lighthouse. 

One of the best parts was just the view of San Diego.  It was gorgeous.

Being the little two year old that she is, Addy wanted to do everything herself. It was so scary because the climb up to the top was on these very steep winding stairs with other people trying to go up and down as well. Once you climbed the stairs, there was then a ladder which pretty much went up to nothing because it was all blocked off but of course Addy wanted to climb it! 

It was a very busy afternoon but it was fun to spend time just with our little family.  We were going to go down and wander through Seaport Village but we were pretty tired so we headed back to Ben's aunt and uncles for a delicious mother's day feast.  Then back to the hotel where we all fell asleep by about 9 o'clock!