San Diego weekend

We spent Mother's Day weekend in San Diego. Mark got a Friday and Monday off and we took advantage of my parents' free lodging. We toured the USS Midway where Mark and Audrey got to climb up to the control deck or whatever they called it and I took Claire down into the belly of the ship and found she might have inherited a little of my claustrophobia. She could not get out of there fast enough and so we found one of the docents who let us out through a totally vertical shortcut. Just glad I was not wearing a skirt. We also took the girls to the beach on Coronado.

We went out for breakfast for Mother's Day and then gave my mom a great gift - almost two days alone with our kids. She was free to spoil them and we were free to go back to Coronado and spend a night at the Loews where we stayed during our honeymoon. We have not been on an adults' only vacation for quite a few years. It was great - the hotel is still beautiful and we took advantage of all the amenities: pool, jacuzzi, tennis, glamorous bar food. And we had some good Mexican and Greek food. We took our portable DVD and Redboxed one of the most depressing movies ever - called "Everyone's Fine" that was listed under comedies but made us both cry and feel totally hopeless. Then it got funny - I mean we did, not the movie. It was only a day and a half but felt like a week and we missed our kids. They missed us and were happy to see us return until they realized that meant they had to say goodbye to Nanie.