Hop on Hop off Bus Tour around San Diego

On Saturday, January 17th, we went on the hop on hop off tour around different parts of San Diego.  There was a bus stop right behind our hotel at Seaport Village, so it was easy to do.  We started at 9am after getting breakfast at the Club in our hotel.  We used the City Go pass for tickets to the Zoo the day before, the bus tour, and tickets to the USS Midway.

On the open bus, ready to go!

The first stop we were going to get off at was Coronado Island, across the bridge.

Going across the bridge to the island.

We made it to Coronado Island and hotel.

The boys were excited to play in the sand!

So fun to be by the ocean!

There was a gold shimmer in the sand; it was so pretty! Nyles and Steve found hermit crabs.

Pretty ocean and waves.

Hudson holding a hermit crab.

And we found lots of seashells and clamshells.

We even saw a group of dolphins swimming by.

Dolphins swimming in front of us

And a fighter jet kept going by us.  Carter's sand structure.

After a couple hours we got back on the bus and went back over the bridge.

We then got off at Balboa Park, which is right next to the San Diego Zoo.

There was a cool tree and lots of neat buildings and museums.

The kids were pretty hungry by this time, so we didn't stay very long.

We then got back on the bus and went over to Old Town.

Fire station along the way in Little Italy.  Hudson then fell asleep, as did Carter.

We then ate lunch at Cafe Coyote, a Mexican Restaurant.  

I ate there when I was there w/ my team last May.  Yummy chips and salsa.

People come and buy just their tortillas from the street, which is pretty cool.

The food was super yummy!

We then walked up to the Mormon Battalion Museum and got a tour.  We thought it was just going to be artifacts to look at, but they actually walk you through what happened and why.  It was really neat.  It's interactive as you watch videos, and the characters come to life.  The boys got to dress up w/ the supplies they had while marching in the battalion.  When we were done the kids mined for gold.  Sister Missionaries help w/ the tours.  They are called to serve there 6 months, then are reassigned to another proselytizing mission, which is neat.

At the Mormon Battalion Museum.

Signs around Old Town.  We got a picture at the Mormon Battalion Museum.  We just barely made it back in time to get back on the bus, back to our hotel.

Seagull on a light post, cool ship on our way back to the hotel.  The boys each got a glow-in-the-dark 3D dragon w/ a blue light in Old Town at the markets.  Coming back to our hotel.

The boys wanted to go swimming again.  The boys glow-in-the-dark 3D dragons.  

Cute Carter w/ his milk mustache after desserts at the Club.

Boys swimming

We had another great day w/ thankfully warm sunny weather again.  We only got off at 3 stops on the tour and it took all day!  We were w/in walking distance to the USS Midway though, so we decided to just go there the next day before we had to fly home.