So we decided to do things a little differently this year and headed off to San Diego for Thanksgiving. It was our first Thanksgiving with just our own little family. We had a great time and did a lot of fun things with the kids. We stopped in Las Vegas for a day o n the way there and saw the Bellagio, Water show and botanical gardens, the Mirage Volcano show (which Mercury cried all the way through), spent several hours in an arcade without spending any money because the kids just loved sitting in the cars, motorcycles, and other games, swam in the pool.  Then when we got to San Diego we went to Lego land and the kids rode their first rides and Mercury drove a car for the first time. We also went to the Wild Animal Park, the San Diego Temple grounds, The Mormon Battalion Historical Site, Several parks, and a couple Beaches.

Zeal got to meet Bob the builder but Mercury was too scared so he just looked from afar

We discovered that our kids are much smaller than gorillas at the Wild animal Park