Nathan and I celebrated 10 years of marriage on May 20th. We had planned to leave the older boys with my parents and head to Lincoln City for a night with Caleb to celebrate. That would have been wonderful, but I had an itch to do something a little more elaborate. We only have a tenth anniversary once, after all!
I secretly made flight reservations to take us to San Diego. The Dodgers were playing the Padres on our anniversary weekend, and I figured we could catch a couple of games and enjoy the beach. I checked with my parents to ensure being gone two nights instead of one would be ok, then I went for it. The night before we left I gave Nathan the tickets.
Friday evening on our anniversary we boarded the plane for San Diego. It was Caleb’s first flight so we didn’t know what to expect, but it is amazing how relaxing it felt compared to when we flew with Elias for the first time. We’re not perfect, but I’ll go ahead and say we’re old pros. Caleb was a champ which helped a lot. It was a lot of fun going back to traveling with only one kid…and a baby at that. The whole thing just felt so easy. We love all our boys, but it was fun to have low stress travel!
Saturday morning we woke up and enjoyed breakfast together. Caleb had his first seat in a high chair. He wasn’t quite six months old so we didn’t actually give him any food, but he enjoyed sitting in his own seat.
After a nice breakfast we headed to the beach to take a nice walk together and to dip Caleb’s toes in the ocean. It was relaxing and beautiful.
The beach wore Caleb out so he left us alone for awhile to enjoy a nice lunch together.
After lunch all three of us headed back to the hotel and we all three took a nap. Then we got ready for the big game! Nathan had never visited Petco Park before so he got to check another ballpark off his list.
On Sunday we relaxed in the morning, then went to find some lunch. Nathan was in heaven. In-n-Out and Dodgers baseball in the same day.
We got to stay for 6 innings of the Sunday game before leaving for the airport. As it turns out, the game went 17 innings! It went by too fast, but we were so thankful for the time away to celebrate.