About Me
I'm Debbie, mother of two delicious kids,
and I write about traveling with little kids. That's
my 6-month old son in Paris on Halloween.
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San Diego is a great family destination with lots of activities for kids of all ages. Public transportation is not widely available between major attractions here, meaning that you will almost certainly want to rent a car. If you are planning to visit Legoland, check out our Guide to Carlsbad with Kids
Hotel Del Coronado This huge destination resort is the place to stay if you plan ...
Pacific Terrace Hotel This 3 1/2 star resort is popular both because of its Pacific ...
Tower23 Located on popular Pacific Beach, this small (44 room) trendy hotel is ...
Bread & Cie Bread & Cie is known as the best bread bakery in San ...
Broken Yolk A local favorite since 1979, this is a great place to get ...
El Zarape This casual and inexpensive Mexican restaurant serves dishes that are creative without ...
Gringo's The menu at this upscale mexican restaurant is divided between Cal-Mex favorites ...
In-n-Out Burger In-N-Out is a local chain of fast food hamburger restaurants. What makes ...
Balboa Park Balboa Park is the country's largest urban cultural park. It houses 15 ...
Balboa Park Miniature Train The miniature railroad, just outside the zoo entrance, is a fun three ...
California Dreamin Balloon & Biplane Rides California Dreamin' offers sunset balloon flights over the Pacific Ocean and Coastal ...
Java Mama This coffeshop is the ideal place to hang out and relax for ...
Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theatre This puppet theatre has performances for all ages featuring hand puppets, marionettes, ...
Hamel's Skate and Surf This popular skateboarding and surf shop sells surf and skate gear, but ...
Kruiser King Kruiser King rents bikes, surfboards, and skateboards. For $45 per person you ...
Warwick's Bookstore Warwicks is one of the few independently owned bookstores in San Diego. ...
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I have a guest article about things to do in San Diego with kids on RookieMoms today. Rookie Moms is a great blog with tons of activities for moms with new babies and small kids that are "more fun than wiping someone's tushie". I've gotten activities from the ...
We flew back from Ontario Airport late Tuesday night. I’m not sure why we flew back so late at night. With the Christmas holiday, those must have been the only reasonably priced tickets.
The kids both slept on the flight, but woke up when we tried to transfer them ...
We woke up to on of San Diego's rare rainy days. . . not the day to hang out on the beach. It might also seem like a strange day to choose to go to a park, but Balboa Park has enough indoor activities that we knew we'd be able ...
While our children didn't necessarily appreciate being lulled to sleep by the sound of the ocean last night, they sure loved waking up and looking out at the beach this morning!
Breakfast in the room is the way to go with kids. Usually I pick up some muffins and ...
This afternoon we picked E up from school, rushed him through a snack at home, and then we were off to the airport. Not suprisingly (in retrospect) he had a huge amount of anxiety about leaving today. We hadn't given him enough time at home, and we didn't ...
We're headed to San Diego today! I want to thank everyone who emailed me with suggestions for things to do and places to eat. We got some really great tips, and I cannot wait to get there.
Things are fairly loosely organized for this trip. We've been to ...
