Day At The Races!!

Saturday morning we met the crew down in San Juan to hop the train and ride on down to good ol' Solano beach. We packed coolers full of food and drinks and some toys for the kids and went to Del Mar to watch the races. I was pretty excited to bring my kids. They had never been with us, or been on the train. So they were pumped! They talked about it for a good two weeks. They spent pretty much the whole train ride on a bench with Boston and Radyn looking out the window to the beach and ocean. They were all giddy and cute. Best part was I didnt once hear "Are we there yet??" Wish I could take the train everywhere! When we got to Solano Beach we had to hop on the trolley bus, double decker might I add, to get to the race track. The kids of course wanted to sit up top so we did and it made for some damn good entertainment. I think at least 6 of us got hit in the face/head with trees and the wind in the babies faces was crackingme up the whole time!

We got in to the race track and the kids thought it was the coolest thing ever. We set up shop (beach chairs, blankets, lunch, lol) and the kids ran wild. Icees, nachos, wrestling, monster trucks, forts, baseball and their favorite, watching the horses come by!

The adults argued over the best horse names and who to bet on. Luke and I won one race and won $36. It was sweet. And the boys went about their really mature ways... like Luke knocking everyone down while attempting to take a picture.

It was a long hot fun day, we were there til our train left at 650pm. But then we thought it would be a good idea (even after the train security told us we needed to quiet down all the crying kids and loud adults) to bring everyone to dinner at Cafe Maiz after that. What were we thinking?!?!