Around 9AM, we waved goodbye to daddy, as he was sitting in meetings at the hotel and we took off on The Coronado Ferry to the Island. It was a picturesque Southern California morning and the four of us were ready to explore.
The ferry ride was only about 5 minutes and we walked through the cute market area of Coronado, exploring chocolate shops. There was a very nice free island shuttle waiting to pick us up and take us to the other side of the island to the world famous Hotel Del Coronado. It is the oldest and largest wooden hotel in America and said to be haunted. We explored the lobby and we definitely saw how dark and different the feel was. The kids were anxious to walk around to the beach side and we instantly found the most beautiful white sands beach and bright sun waiting for us.
The Pacific Ocean water was super chilly, for me, but it didn't stop Carter and Addie for jumping in, for a while. The sand at this beach looked like it literally has gold specs in it. It was amazingly beautiful! The older kids soon spotted the large rocks and explored those for well over an hour while Delaney just wanted to sit in my lap and cuddle all morning while at the beach.
Around noon, Blake was done and came and met us at the beach and we were ready to finally have Daddy all to ourselves for the rest of the weekend.
We walked to a delicious seafood hole-in-the-wall restaurant for lunch called The Islander and it had the most amazing "Fish Cone," similar to a fresh big fish taco.
We then went home for nap time and more hotel pool time before heading north of San Diego to Pacific Beach. The beach itself was definitely not as nice as Coranado but was crazy busy with surfers and good people watching that beautiful August Friday evening. We found another yummy hole in the wall for dinner and stumbled upon our best find of the trip - The Baked Bear, a homemade ice cream and cookie place with a line of 50 people wrapped around the corner. It was delicious and we all craved one the next day.
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