Trip to San Diego

So the fires were under control and we packed up half the house and flew to San Diego. By a miracle, we actually left on time for the airport, huge relief, because there was a long line when we got there. Plane ride was fine, both kids did pretty well, especially since mom forgot their new bag of treats at home. Thank goodness for the DVD players, yes 2 of them, we remembered. Shane watched his movies and read his books and Myann wiggled herself back and forth across the aisle between daddy and I. We waited FOREVER for our bags in S.D., so Shane and Myann entertained everyone waiting and managed to make friends with several adults around us. Our kids are not shy. Then we had to wait FOREVER again for our rental car, where again Shane made friends with a little girl visiting from Chicago. Before we left, they had shared all of the snacks between her parents and us. So hours later we were on our way to our rental house in La Jolla. The rental was not quite as nice as we had hoped, but Starbucks was literally 15 feet from our door, so we couldn't complain. Dropped bags and headed to Aunt Sandy's to rest before heading to the airport to pick up Grandma and Papa. That evening, Shane shocked Grandma and I by "reading" all the pages in his new book. He never ceases to amaze us, we read the book one time on the plane and he must have memorized the pages, it was an early reader book, so we aren't talking complex writing, but definitely more than I would have memorized. Anyway, as we went through the pages, he read the words, my mom and I kept looking at each other in shock as he recited every word on every page. My mom actually thought he was reading for a second there. He wasn't, but I was still amazed with his fast memorization.