Group Pictures from our California Vacation

Jeff and I purchased a new printer last week and it arrived on Friday.  We decided to switch from HP to Canon based reading reviews and so far I'm quite happy with it!  We bought a Canon MX870 from Amazon since it was cheaper than purchasing it in a store.  It has been really nice and hooked up correctly to our network to my machine and to Jeff's machine.  The only problems I am having at the moment is getting it to connect to my virtual system to Windows...

Anyhow, the pictures were all taken while we were in California.  I scanned them in using the new printer.







Sea World San Diego - Jeff, Lisa, Roland, and Jakob

San Diego Zoo - Jeff, Lisa, Roland, Jakob, Mom, Dad, Mema, and Jenn.

San Diego Zoo - Jeff, Lisa, Roland, Jakob, Mom, Dad, Mema, and Jenn.

Lego Land California - Jeff, Lisa, Roland, and Jakob

Lego Land California - Jeff, Lisa, Roland, and Jakob.  Jakob actually really enjoyed this roller coaster which was the reason we purchased the picture!  The picture was taken on the first drop and largest drop of the whole ride, so his facial expression is pretty funny knowing he still really enjoyed the ride!!

Vacation Day 5 - LegoLand California!

Jakob was not initially feeling well this morning.  I think he was tired from our week since started to feel better after getting a little food and water in his stomach.

We headed toward LegoLand and had breakfast at Einstein Bagels.  It was near LegoLand, so after we finished we only had about ten miles to drive.  Many people wanted to come to LegoLand and we had to wait a little while to get to the gates to pay for parking.

There have been some really neat things built with Legos!!  The pictures below are the main ones focusing on those with family in the pictures.  I have more to post of all the many things built with Legos!!

Vacation Day 4 - San Diego Zoo

We had breakfast this morning at the hotel.  After eating, we met up with everyone to head over to the San Diego Zoo.

We all really wanted to see the elephants, so we headed in that direction.  While walking in that direction we saw the Koalas.  They sleep for almost 22 hours and they were awake!!  We stopped and got some fun pictures! Later in the day when we took the bus tour, they were asleep!

The elephants are always fun to see especially in San Diego!  Their elephant exhibit is huge and they have so much room!  Roland and Jakob posed with many of the statue animals around the exhibits!

We passed the Sky Tram and went to see the Polar Bears.  We caught them at a great time since they were about to get fed.  They were walking around and watching for the keeper to drop the food over the ledge.  One of them came over to the window and sat next to us while we watching them!

After lunch, we took the bus tour and went around the zoo.  One of the things we saw while on the bus was the giraffes.  My favorite animals at the zoo are the elephants and the giraffes.

We also attended the Sea Lion Show at the zoo.  I posted a video of the show on my blog earlier today. Enjoy!

Sea Lion Show: San Diego Zoo - Video Clip

We had a great trip to the San Diego Zoo.  Here is a short video from the Sea Lion Show that all 8 of us watched!

Sea World San Diego, CA

As mentioned in my other post, we went to Sea World in San Diego after Randy's wedding.  The boys really enjoyed it and we were there most of the day!  Here's a short video clip from the day.

Vacation Day 3 - Sea World San Diego

We went to Denny's for breakfast this morning.  After breakfast we headed to Sea World.  We arrived at Sea World around 9:30AM PST and ended up staying until after 7PM!  Since we were at Sea World right at open, we were able to get a cute picture with Shamu and the kids!  They had some other characters, but Jakob wasn't interested in them.  This was Jakob's first trip to any large amusement park.

We went and saw the Dolphin show first.  I have always enjoyed watching the dolphins.

We fed the sea lions and they were so funny to feed since they would literally open their mouths wide and wait for you to drop food into their mouths!  We had to watch out for the seagulls because they were trying to steal the food away and eat it!

One thing Jeff and I noticed was none of the trainers were in the water.  It probably is due to the incident that occurred in February 2010 in Orlando where the killer whale pulled the trainer into the water and was killed.

 

We asked Jakob if he wanted to sit in the soak zone, but he said no!  It's a good thing because we probably would have been wet!

We saw the polar bears at the right time since they were active and waiting for food.  They were impressive to see and are so big!!

Since we fed the sea lions earlier in the day, we had to see their show.  The sea lion shows are usually pretty funny and Jakob really enjoyed this show!

One of the last things Jeff, Roland, and Jakob did at Sea World was ride a water ride!  Jakob had been wanting to do them all day along with Roland.  So near the end, we saw this ride and it was great because I was able to take pictures as they went around the corner!  They all really enjoyed the ride!