Tijuana/San Diego - Day 6

Today was a very slow day. I slept in and then spent the morning downloading pictures off of Sandra's camera and then posting some of the pictures on Facebook and the blog posts. Sandra's new camera takes huge pictures, and my old iBook just doesn't have the horsepower to easily display them within iPhoto. That means that in order to view them, I have to import them into iPhoto and then export them all out of iPhoto at a smaller resolution, which takes a lot of time. If we take any longer vacations, I'm going to need a new laptop.

After lunch, we packed the kids in the van and drove back to the beach. It was a nice day, sunny but not too warm and the waves were huge (at least to a Saskatchewan boy like me). They couldn't have been too small, as there were four or five people surfing and wake boarding. We set up some chairs, put the babies on the sand and let the two year olds run around in the waves. Xander was fairly scared of the water at first, but soon opened up and had a lot of fun running around in the water, though he had to hold my hand the entire time. It wasn't until we were getting ready to leave that he was willing to run through the waves on his own.

While Xander and I splashed in the waves, Rick wandered deeper into the ocean and noticed that as the waves came and went, they moved the sand and exposed some small crabs that would quickly scurry back into the sand. It took some time, but he was able to quickly grab some sand that contained a crab, which he brought closer to shore and showed the kids. It was pretty neat how quickly the little crab would dig into the ground as soon as it was able to.

As we played in the water, Evan sat on the sand and proceeded to eat large amounts of it. That wasn't a huge deal, as what kid doesn't eat sand? However, cleaning him up required using wipes on his face, which took off his sunscreen, but no one thought of that at the time. Right now, his cheeks look fairly red, so hopefully he did not get sunburned too badly.

We then went home and proceeded to make supper. Sandra is currently packing things up, while the kids are eating ice cream for their night lunch. Early tomorrow morning we leave Mexico for the last time, as we are going to spend the day at Legoland in California. At the end of the day, Rick and Colette will drop us off at a hotel near the San Diego airport, where we are going to spend the night.