After our brief stint in Lost Hills we drove to Paradise by the Sea RV Park in lovely Oceanside, California. Proximity to beach, hot tub, San Diego, and - most importantly - LEGOLAND were the attraction.
Day one and Axel and I were on the beach.
This boy loves the ocean.
Paradise by the Sea RV Park has a rec room with a pool table and this pirate presides over the gaming action. If he could talk he would say Axel is pretty good at beating his mom at pool, especially when Axel makes her play bank the eight ball.
I took a vacation day from work on Wednesday and Axel and I hopped on a train to Old Town San Diego. People have been living in Old Town San Diego for about 10,000 years and there are European buildings from as far back as the late 1700's.
Axel loads a water bottle into a cannon.
Here is Axel at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Old Town.
And Axel at our afternoon beverage stop at the Nordstrom Cafe.
Full disclosure: the mean faces were an act. And while I am admitting things: when it started raining pretty hard we Uber'd to the mall to buy shorts and a swimsuit for Axel. We came back to Old Town later in the day when the rain let up.
Still at the mall, Axel captures me and my afternoon beverage.
Back at Old Town, Axel bought a beanie baby named Diggs. Here are Axel, Diggs, and some great Indigenous art in an Old Town museum.
Also in Old Town we dipped our own candles. Okay, not quite. They let you pick out a white candle (we chose cats- naturally) and do up to ten dips to color them. Axel did a yellow, orange, red motif and I did a yellow, brown, black one. Here we burned what turned out to be effigies of Hermes and Maggie.
So where was Jon? He was actually riding his bike from Oceanside to meet us in Old Town. We all had dinner together and then took the train back to Oceanside. Amtrak is my new favorite mode of transportation and the coastal views on that route are particularly spectacular. I hope they read this and give me a free pass ;)
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