Torrey Pines

After we got back from Joshua Tree, Christian took off to get a few hours of work in. After dinner, we went down to San Diego and spent the night at Christian's brother's house. Christian's dad met up with us after breakfast and we headed down to Torrey Pines State Beach.

Christian took the girls out on his dad's surfboard.

The waves were not great. The girls had a blast but Caitlyn was pretty nervous about the whole thing. Christian took me out a few times too and it was pretty scary. And I don't know if it has just been a long time since I've been to the beach but I swear that the water is a heck of a lot saltier than it used to be!

Christian's sister met us there with the girls' cousins.

The kids spent the entire afternoon playing on boogie boards. Caitlyn was still pretty cautious after the surfing thing and stayed fairly close to shore, but the other cousins threw caution to the wind and went out pretty far. Emily and Brandon spent most of the time boogie boarding together. Michaela sometimes went out with them and sometimes stayed along the beach with Caitlyn.

They also took breaks to warm up, get something to eat and play in the sand but it wasn't very often for Emily. She has always loved the beach but we don't get out there very often because it is so crowded...and pretty expensive to park at by the way.

In between swimming and surfing, Christian and I took walks up the beach. We climbed up a route up the cliffs overlooking the beach too and a big rattle snake crossed our path. Unfortunately, I was having camera difficulties and did not get too many more pictures at this point.

We finally called it a day around 5:pm. The kids were still not ready to leave. The girls ended up going with their cousins. They went out to dinner with them and stayed the night at their house while Christian and I went back to Mark's house for dinner to spend a peaceful night on our own. Unfortunately, Danielle, Mark's wife hurt her foot pretty badly towards the end of the evening and ended up going in to urgent care to have it taken care of. So it ended up to be a pretty tiring and stressful night.

We got up really early to pick up the girls and headed home Sunday morning. We just made it home in time to change our clothes and head to church. We were all pretty exhausted.