Aliens have landed!!!!!

At Balboa Park :)

The Apollo 9 Command Module

An alien creature from "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was visiting!

A few other aliens, as well!

Noogey!!

He and Uncle Rodney got to send messages out into space.

Uncle Rodney giving him a history lesson.

He got to "fly" a plane over San Diego!!

We had one more BIG excitement in store before the end of this great time---a Padres game!!

A day at the beaches...

This year, the "June Gloom" carried over into July and the first couple of weeks of his visit, we had drizzly, gray, gloomy weather :(  FINALLY, it cleared off some and warmed up enough to visit a couple of beaches!!

La Jolla Seal Beach

Coronado Beach

Views only seen on a military base beach :)

The next day we visited Balboa Park :)

A few looks back to last summer....

In looking through my pictures, I realized our relocation got in the way of me finishing up posts from our nephew's wonderful visit last summer!!! SO SORRY, A.!!! It was just too fun a time and too many great pics to just let it go :) So, back in time to summer, 2010.......

When he came to visit, his #1 request was to go to Legoland, so how could we refuse that :)

What could be better than a giraffe---- a life-size giraffe built entirely out of legos!!

The guys spent some time building their own lego race cars....

Looks like Rodney's is the winner. Guess he's had a little more practice building them!!

A. had the opportunity to program a lego robot....

...and test it to see if he entered the programs correctly, which he did! His robot performed its "jobs" beautifully" :)

Elvis!!

Go Padres!!

I'm Batman!

How many legos did it take to build THIS guy?!!?

Or this guy??

Save me!! Save me!!

He got to take a drivers test and get a license :) 

Had to get a pic with this little guy!

That face says it all :)

So does that one!!

Next up---Balboa Park!!

Easter SONrise Service

(As I'm sorting through the gazillion pictures taken during Rachel's visit, I'm going to catch up with a few other posts :)

We had the opportunity for the first time in a few years to attend an Easter sunrise service! It wasn't quite a sunrise, but soon thereafter.....

The morning sky as seen from our apartment

The view from our service site----GORGEOUS!!

A couple of after-service shots

Still here!!

To those of you following along with our wanderings and anxiously awaiting our next post: sorry for the delay!! We've been running around the entire island these last four weeks with Rodney's sister!!! We had an AWESOME visit and covered the island literally north to south and east to west as well as a gazillion stops in between :) So, I may not have had time to do much posting while she was here, but I gathered scads of pics to post!! Therefore, be keeping a close eye here, because there is MUCH to come :)