2011 Summer Vacation–Our Hotel

We went to San Diego for the Utah Bar Convention.  Rod had to take classes for his continuing education.  The Convention was held at the Manchester Hyatt.  It was a great hotel with so much to do nearby.

Seafair Village was right by our hotel and of course we were right on the harbor.

The kids each found the boat they wanted!!

They had an area with all shorts of games for the kids to play.  (If you think checkers is boring, try playing it in the HOT sun! Whew!)

Rod really wanted to go to San Diego without kids, but since the older boys were going rafting with the church, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to “force” these three to interact with each other.  (My biggest concern is for Braden and Halle.)  My efforts worked.  They actually played together!  This was the view from our hotel window!

We ended up in a room with two beds and I started to feel very claustrophobic within a few minutes, so we splurged on this huge room.  We had a kitchen, living area, and two rooms.  It was so awesome.  We realized that because we have had the trailer all these years, Parker had never really stayed in a hotel before!  He definitely got a warped sense of what hotels are really like on this trip!  We were all very spoiled.

The smiles on their faces says it all….

So our last day at our hotel, we splurged again on lunch by the pool.  It was fun to be waited on and not have to go in search of a meal for a change!

They closed the pool early, so this wedding could take place.  It was a really pretty place to get married.  It was funny as we stood in the window watching, many of the other windows in the opposite tower from us were full of spectators too!

All in all it was a great hotel to spend a week in.  We were lucky to have such an awesome opportunity to do so!