Happy Father's Day!

William's best gift to John for Father's Day this year? He slept until 8:30am!! WOOOOHOOOOO!!! Can you hear me all the way over there? It was amazing considering that would be the equivalent of sleeping until 10:30 at home! Amazing....amazing. It was much needed rest because we had been up a lot earlier the previous days and hadn't been sleeping great all in one room. William is a SUPER loud sleeper. He has recently started babbling in his sleep and he rolls around all the time. The hotel crib was made out of metal, so every time he hit the bars (every time he rolls) it would make a big BANG noise that woke me every time. So, the sleep felt good.

We didn't have any plans until later in the day, so we got up, grabbed breakfast and did some more walking through Old Town San Diego. It was so much fun to stay in this area so we could just walk to different places and come back to the hotel when we were done - I really enjoyed this aspect of the trip. We wandered through an Old West transportation museum and a restored home of one of the first governors (or someone important, my memory is foggy on that point) of the area. John played photographer at the transportation museum (boy do we have pictures for you Uncle Carl!) and then turned it over to me at the house museum.

Playing with the reins on the wall at the Old West Transportation museum.
The courtyard. I've also decided that one of the major flaws of our current home is that we don't have a courtyard like this. Something needs to be done.
The main entryway to the house
Walls of the adobe house
Roof made out of branches
A part of a crate for hauling... something? I don't remember what.

We wandered by an Old School house museum and decided it was too much work to lift the stroller through the narrow doorway and up several steep stairs before wandering back to the hotel. Oh, and of course we did a little browsing of the shops on the way back.


Late in the morning on Sunday, we met up with Uncle Mike (and his girl Jessica) at Dave and Buster's for lunch. Although there is a Dave and Busters just down the highway from us, we've never been there. If you're not familiar, it is like a Chuckee Cheese restaurant, but targeted more towards for grown ups. We didn't take any pictures as we were either too busy chasing after William (me and Grandma) or playing games (the dads). After playing and eating, William needed a nap (totally overstimulated, although totally excited about his new Elmo toy and ball). William went down for a nap and Mike took everyone but me to take a tour of the Navy place where he works. What is the correct word here? Base? Shipyard? Headquarters? Dock? John is sleeping or I would ask him. You'll just have to put the right word in for me.

After the tour (and nap for the rest of us), we decided the day was too beautiful to play around inside, so we went back to the beach. YEAH! I love the beach and it was a great day for it. William was much braver and shocked me by running toward the water and laughing on more than one occasion. He even ran into the wave as it came up onto the beach (shallow, of course) and didn't freak out. It was a proud moment for me.

In the water! And Happy!!
I love the lighting in the picture! Very cool John!
William running towards the water with me close behind. Again, great lighting!
Look at him run! He was giggling so much! A huge difference from the first day! Can I use more exclamation points?!?!
Caught you just in time! The waves were big and strong enough to knock William over - so keeping up with him was pretty important.
Dipping the toes
Trying to get him to play in the sand with Grandpa and Mike
He'd rather play with the big pile of seaweed

At the end of the day, we ended up back at Fred for more fantastic Mexican food. Somewhere in this post should be a picture of the daddy and his boy. But, there is not. Not yet anyway. I still need to go through Grandma and Grandpa's pictures. They have some great ones from dinner. I'll have to do it later - time for me to go to bed.