SUMMER VACATION!!!!!!

Our first big family vacation was a trip to sunny San Diego!!!! We booked a hotel right in the middle of all the action and invited KK's sister Kellie to join the fun. We purchased 3-in-1 passes that let us have unlimited visits to SeaWorld, San Diego Zoo, and the Zoo's Wild Adventure. Of course we enjoyed Sea World, but Ava's Favorite was of course the Zoo. We were gone six days and took over 500 pictures.
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.Our trip started on an airplane. Ava was a little nervous during take off, shown here, but she was a doll the rest of the time. She even made a couple of new friends.
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Ava LOVED the beach. She started each beach day by dumping a load of sand in her hair. We absorbed a lot of rays, Ava's hair is practically blonde.
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I wish they all could be Californian Girls...
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At Sea World, there is a Sesame Street themed area just for kids. Ava has this new look she uses when she is surprised. The cutest part with this expression is that it is preceded with a fast head twitch, very funny.

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Here Ava and the lion were staring at each other. Probably checking out each others impressive manes of hair.
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The lion's roar on the way out gave us another surprised look.
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CHEESE!!!!
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Ava's favorite animal by far was the hippo. She has a book called "kiss kiss hippopotamus" so of course she needed an up close encounter.
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Our visit to the Zoo's Wild Adventure Park proved to be pretty miserable. It was about 45 minutes inland and about 125 degree's!!! We just took a train tour and found this water park on our way out.
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Another day at the beach, playing in the sand, with her Ariel and ducky.
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Hydration always important when enjoying time in the sun.
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Well, we all had lots of fun and with enough baths, maybe we will get all the sand out of her hair.

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See ya next time.