San Diego!

Okay, so we went to San Diego on Thursday and boy was it FREEZING! To someone who has lived in San Diego for a while, it would have been pretty warm. But me being used to weather around 110 degrees ferenheit everyday during the summer, 70 degrees was pretty cold for me! I know... I'm such a wimp! Oh well! Anyway, we drove to San diego on Thursday and got there at about 2:00 to 3:00 in the morning. I don't know the exact time because I was sleeping most of the way there. On Friday, we did some sightseeing. We went to an old lighthouse which was super cool!Then we went to an old HUGE ship called the "Midway," and that was awesome! There were a ton of different rooms and on the top of the whole thing, there was a landing deck where a bunch of war planes and helicopters landed and were launched for flight. After that, we went to the beach. There were a bunch of people there, and I must admit that although I had a bunch of fun, I know there are nicer beaches. There wasn't a LOT of garbage there, but there were no shells and there was kelp and sea grass all over the beach where they had just happened to be washed up. It was kind of creepy because everytime the water went over my feet, (and I couldn't see what was under the water even though it was only a couple inches deep) the kelp got tangled around my ankles and kept making me think that the plant was a fish or something. On Saturday, we went to the San Deigo zoo because we hadn't been to a good zoo in a long time and everyone said that this zoo was huge-which it was. I saw an animal I didn't even know existed! It's called Okapi. (You might want to look it up and see a picture of it because it is SUPER cool! It is in the giraffe family, has a face that looks like a giraffe's, and has little tiny horns. It's body is brown, it's back legs are zebra-striped, and it's front legs are also black and white and have spots (the spots aren't perfectly round). On Sunday, we went to Sea World. Unfortunately, the ride Atlantis was closed down until about noon the next day because something leaked and they had to drain out all the water, pressure wash the ground of the ride, and refill the entire thing again with water. Fortunately, though, we did see a bunch of shows. They replaced the show "Bonnie and Clyde" with a show called "Clyde and Seemore." It still has the two seals in it, the story line just changed. We also went on the rapids ride. Since Atlantis was closed down, everyone went to the rapids ride instead and there was a HUGE line...we had to wait an hour, give or take a few. We also went on it at night because no one ever wants to get soaking wet at night. And I can't believe I was dumb enough to go on. My brother, my little sister, and I all got soaked...and I mean SOAKED! We went to the Shamoo show after the rapids ride and then went back to the hotel. We drove back on Monday, which meant that I missed a day of swim team. I didn't mind too much because we were timing for the I.M. (Two laps of butterfly, two laps of backstroke, two laps of breaststroke, and two laps of freestyle all together in a sprint.) I think just about everyone hates the I.M. I know that this was a really really long post, but I had lots to say! I think that's about it so...bye!