We got up early on Monday to get ready and drive down to the beach about 20 minutes away. We had to check into our whale watching tour and hour before departure. We found our parking place and then walked on the docks before we checked into our tour. We had plenty of time before our boat departed so we walked around the board walk and looked in a couple stores before using the restroom and then getting in line for the boat.
They let us on the boat, and we went up to the top deck and found us some seats. They were benches that were looking inside the boat, not outside, but they were still good seats. The view was beautiful and the homes in that area were crazy fancy.
Before we saw the whales we got to go through a huge pod of dolphins. There were hundreds of dolphins swimming with the boats and all around us. It was so awesome to see, and we all loved seeing them jump and swim in the waves of the boat.
Then the boat drove to where the whales had been spotted. When they stopped the boat to watch the whales the boat started swaying. The swaying really made Allie seasick. She had to sit down and then she threw up. Luckily, she made it in the garbage can that was right next to her. She then spent the rest of the boat ride laying on Tony.
We did see three whales who were kind of playing with each other. I wasn't feeling great myself, so I went back and forth of wanting to see the whales and wanting to sit down. The problem with whales is that they come up for a minute and then go down for like five minutes. But it was fun to see them when they came up for a that minute. I then had a lay down on Tony too. The three older kids were fine watching the whales and didn't get sick.
After a while we headed back to the docks. After we were moving normally and after I was laying down for a while, I started feeling better. Allie fell asleep on Tony. Tony wasn't feeling good himself, so I had Allie lay on me while he walked around a little. Allie felt a lot better after her little nap, so we bought a couple cups of popcorn and we all shared it. Popcorn is always good to us.
We were going to go the beach after our tour, but since Allie got sick, she said she'd rather just go back to the hotel and go swimming there. I asked what the other kids wanted to do, and they all agreed that they'd rather do the pool. I was okay with that since that is a whole lot cleaner than playing in the sand.
We still had lots of leftovers at the hotel, so we ate lunch in our room before we went down to the pool. I had some laundry to do so we got a load started before we went to the pool. I had to wait for the person who was using the laundry room before me to finish before I could start our laundry (stupid Covid rules). But I was able to set the timer on my phone and switch around the laundry while the kids were swimming. The kids loved the pool again and spent a couple hours down there playing. It was fun watching them swim and still get the laundry done.
After swimming we got the kids all washed and in their jammies. Tony and I decided we wanted to go back to Downtown Disney, so we fed the kids the rest of the leftovers and Tony and I walked down to Downtown Disney.
I saw a necklace at the World of Disney when we were there on Saturday that I talked myself out of, but then I decided I really did want it. So, we walked around the store and we couldn't find it where it was before. So, I asked a worker and they said they moved it into a store in California Adventure. Big bummer, so I wasn't able to get the necklace that I wanted. We did get a couple things and then went to dinner at Tortilla Joe's. I didn't want to leave the kids by themselves in the hotel room for too long by themselves, so we were happy to see no wait to get into Tortilla Joe's. Tony and I shared a meal and it was really good. It was nice to have a little time with just us. After dinner we walked back to the hotel and found four well behaved children doing what they were supposed to in the hotel.
They were rewarded with their fourth night of icy goodness from Joe's Italian Ice. It was of course super good just like the other three nights. I got us mostly packed so we wouldn't have much to do the next morning before checking out. We all had a great time in Southern California, and we were ready for our next adventure of going to Northern California.
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