U.S. Open Sandcastle Competition

Who knew there was a nation wide sand sculpting competition? Lucky for us it's held right here in our own back yard! We went with the Coxs and Wests to check it out after church today... We were really excited to see all the cool sandcastles and had no idea how big of an event this was. After driving in jam packed traffic going 5 mph for some time we finally found a spot four blocks away from the beach (which we were excited about because it was actually closer than we thought we would get.) We made our walk toward the beach and saw the amount of people around us growing as we got closer. We knew there would be awesome sandcastles on the beach, we didn't know there would be a gazillion people, fair booths and street vendors there too. There were seriously SO many people there, like you couldn't move without bumping into some random person next to you! It was crazy!! The viewing time was from 3-4 o'clock at 4:00 the tide came in and starting washing all the sculptures away, along with all of the people... everyone in our group got hit by a big wave and we were all drenched! We walked the four blocks back to the car very wet and sandy. But we had a lot of fun the whole time!!

That is A LOT of people!

supposedly there were 300,000 people there... woah!

Take us out to the Ball Game, again...

That's right! Sean and I got to go to another baseball game... Today we went with the Wests' to watch the Padres play the Colorado Rockies at Petco Park here in San Diego. AND... the tickets were FREE, again. Kent got 4 free tickets from work and they invited us to go with them. The seats were awesome! We were right behind home plate and just a few rows back!! The game was fun, the company was amazing, and the Padres got the trashed kicked out of them (10-1) let's face it, they just aren't very good.

the view from our sweet seats:

Benson is loving the Subway sandwiches

Kent, Anna, and Benson

Let Freedom Ring!

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

I love this country and I love celebrating every July 4th!!

All of our friends were out of town this weekend... So Sean and I had our own little party today. We slept in (after getting to bed around 2 last night because we were driving back from LA after the baseball game.) For breakfast we made waffles with strawberries, blueberries, and whip cream (and I made Sean a flag waffle.)

We had a BBQ which included: hamburgers (with garlic, swiss cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and pickles.) macaroni salad, corn on the cob, and cantaloupe.

We watched the fireworks from the Navy base in Point Loma (this years theme was "Big Bay Boom") We saw seven different groups of fireworks on all sides of us over the bay, It was awesome!

For dessert we made Root Beer floats. Yum!

Angels in the outfield... and the infield.

Sean scored free tickets to an Angels game... yay for the military again! We got four tickets and invited the Coxs' (David and Wendy) to come with us. It was really fun! We brought Taco Bell food into the game with us, and Wendy brought some peanuts for us too. They had a firework show over the stadium after the game which was really cool! The Angels lost to the Orioles 6-4.