Mission Beach and Hotel Del Coronado

On Tuesday we headed south to Mission Beach to check out Belmont park and ride the famous Giant Dipper roller coaster. After that we were going to change into our bathing suits and head farther south over to Coronado Island for lunch and to play on the beach at the Hotel Del Coronado.
Our first stop was the surf shop to pick up a few souvenirs. The boys were thrilled when they discovered they had a beach soccer ball.
They played soccer on the beach while we waited for the roller coaster to open for the day.

This is unfortunatly the last photo I took before my camera broke.

As I was working away trying to fix my now broken camera...all 4 kids were harmlessly running around in the water up to their ankles. That was until Zachary tripped over backwards and landed just as a wave came in...completely drenching him. Not 1 minute later Cameron was also running backwards from a wave and also tripped soaking him right down to his underwear. (So wish I had my camera to capture Cameron waddling like a duck up the beach in tears). At this point we decided to go ahead and change into our swimsuits and we stopped back in at the surf shop and bought both boys new t-shirts. By this point no one was really up for riding the rollor coaster so we headed over to a beautiful little spot at Mission Point Park and had a nice picnic lunch and watched the sailboats go by as the boys played a little more soccer. (Once again very sad not to have any pictures because these would have been so great).

We then headed to Coronado Island and spent the rest of the afternoon playing and napping on the white sand beach in front of the beautiful Hotel Del Coronado. (Once again very very sad not to have pictures...that Hotel was amazing!!!)

We ended this day just like all the other with a dip in the hot tub while the kids swam in the pool.