Monday, April 03, 2006
Our personal preference is not to book the Temecula house.
Well, we would like to be closer to San Diego at least by a little bit. A 30 minute drive would be way better than a 60 minute drive!
It would be great also to find a place with more bedrooms, or at least a separate room for Mike from the kiddos.
As far as how we spend the vacation days- we think we should expect to spend a lot of time at the house since there are so many young kids. Our idea for scheduling is that we spend two days on big all-day events (Sea World, the zoo, or whatever). Though we only have one kiddo and she is still little, I think all-day events will be exhausting for everyone (but still worth doing!) so we should limit them. HOWEVER, on the other days, it would be great to be close enough to San Diego to just do one smaller thing (a little shopping, or out for lunch, or the beach, and a MUST- the carousel at Balboa park- the kids AND grown-ups will flip). Spending 2-3 hours at some great San Diego place is do-able if we don't have a long drive to get there. Being closer to San Diego gives us the opportunity to do something on the "stay-home" days, but just for a few hours, so the kids don't lose it.
Thanks Sarah for all the work on looking at houses- I'm still optimistic that we can find one closer.
That's our two cents- for what it's worth.
It would be great also to find a place with more bedrooms, or at least a separate room for Mike from the kiddos.
As far as how we spend the vacation days- we think we should expect to spend a lot of time at the house since there are so many young kids. Our idea for scheduling is that we spend two days on big all-day events (Sea World, the zoo, or whatever). Though we only have one kiddo and she is still little, I think all-day events will be exhausting for everyone (but still worth doing!) so we should limit them. HOWEVER, on the other days, it would be great to be close enough to San Diego to just do one smaller thing (a little shopping, or out for lunch, or the beach, and a MUST- the carousel at Balboa park- the kids AND grown-ups will flip). Spending 2-3 hours at some great San Diego place is do-able if we don't have a long drive to get there. Being closer to San Diego gives us the opportunity to do something on the "stay-home" days, but just for a few hours, so the kids don't lose it.
Thanks Sarah for all the work on looking at houses- I'm still optimistic that we can find one closer.
That's our two cents- for what it's worth.
// posted by Greg, Niki and Addie @ 7:02 PM 
