Coronado Day 2- Wednesday 5-28-08

Day #2 started out bright and early for us. Kenzie has a habit of waking up around 6 or 6:30am each morning...but at home she talks to herself for a little bit and plays with her animals and ends up going back to sleep until around 7:30 or 8. WELL....when she is sleeping in a strange room in a pack n play and can SEE us in bed, she does NOT go back to sleep. We ended up having "bright and early" mornings every morning of our trip. But that's ok : )

She was a busy little thing in the mornings, as you can see from the pictures above. This particular morning she found her daddy's wallet....then her daddy's ipod....then settled with climbing in her stroller and reading her Children's Bible. She LOVES her Bible and always picks to look at it over most of her other books. Climbing in her stroller to read it ended up being one of her favorite activities while we were in Coronado : )

Kenzie took a nap from around 9-11am that morning and people just hung around/relaxed/got ready. Chip, his dad, and I played the game "Sorry". We decided it is a game that is fun once in awhile, but after one time you don't have a real strong urge to play it again anytime soon : )

After Kenzie woke up we left and walked to the other side of the island (a little over a mile) to a place called Ferry Landing...where the ferry goes back and forth between Coronado and San Diego. There was a fun view of the city...so we took some pictures:





At Ferry Landing there is a little shopping/touristy area with a few places to eat and some nice outdoor seating. Here we are relaxing at a table while everyone else walked around looking in shops and enjoying the outdoors : )



After the long walk back, we ate lunch at our FAVORITE pizza place.....Village Pizzeria! If you are ever in Coronado and wanting a good pizza....we recommend this place. They also have some FABULOUS pizza fries! YUM : ) (I do have to say, however, that this vacation we discovered another pizza place on the island. The pizza wasn't quite as good....but the cheesy bread was TO DIE FOR! We will probably make it a tradition to hit up BOTH places from now on!)

We got back to the room between 2:30 and 3 and tried to lay down with Kenzie to take a nap, but she would not settle down AT ALL. So we finally just decided to skip the nap and get ready and go to the beach. She LOVED it!!! She was SO excited to get in the water : ) Here are some pictures of her first beach day:


First "walk" into the ocean. Last year we dipped her toes, but she was only 8 weeks old at the time, so we didn't get her too wet!

She LOVES sand/dirt/mud/etc. So the beach was a GREAT place for her!

Mmm...this sand tastes interesting.....

Out in the water with daddy!

We were trying to take a "self-portrait". It came out ok : )

Here is my big beach belly : ) I was 2 days away from being 29 weeks.

Mmm....eating snacks on Grandma's lap... and all nice and cozy in a towel : )

Kenzie is quite our little adventure girl. She likes to explore.

And she doesn't mind doing it by herself.

She really could care less about where we happen to be.

When Chip tried to bring her back, she threw a big tantrum.

We got back from the beach and by the time she was cleaned up and had eaten dinner she was one TIRED little girl. Especially after skipping her afternoon nap! Here she is in her seat at dinnertime....about to fall asleep:


But she still managed a smile : )


Dinner was YUMMY that night....Chip's mom had put some manicotti in the oven before we left for the beach. We had salad and bread with it. MMMMmmmm!

After dinner, we started a game of a board game we like called Settlers of Catan. Halfway through the game, Chip's parents and sister left to go get ice cream. They went on their own so that when they got back we'd be able to go out on a little "date night" to get ice cream and they stayed in the room with Kenzie. That is a VERY nice part of going on vacation with family! It was so exciting to go out, just the two of us, and have a date in the little town where we honey-mooned : ) I had no problem finishing my whole sundae that consisted of: fudge batter ice cream, vanilla icecream, cookie dough, hot fudge and peanut butter! SO GOOD!

When we got back, we finished the game...Chip won. Then we all went to bed : )