Roadschool field trips in San Diego (part 1)

One of the benefits of being members of Fulltime Families, is the opportunity to get together with other traveling roadschooling families. After the rally, many of us remained in San Diego for a few extra weeks. This allowed us to take advantage of homeschool days at some of the major attractions in town. We visited Legoland, Sea World, the San Diego Zoo and the Safari Park all for a small fraction of the regular price! Neighbors at our campground actually gave us free passes to the Safari Park, so our entry there was free! Yay!

Our first trip was to Legoland with approximately 100 of our roadschooling friends.

We spent time with lots of different families, but managed to spend most of the day with the Lewis family since our families had bonded so well.

Here they built Lego boats to race down the river.

The kids loved, loved, loved the roller coasters. This one was pretty serious. Only 4 people per car and it went fast and very high. After the first big fall, they were ready for it to be over, but by the end, they jumped right back in line to ride again. Brave little monkeys.

Sea World offered us a special show with the Orca whales where we learned how they train them in order to monitor their health. We watched them demonstrate how the whales will roll over for them to take blood, check teeth, even do ultrasounds right there in the water.

This ride simulates arriving by helicopter to an Arctic exploration base where
we found the polar bear, walrus, and one of our favorites, the beluga whales.

Sea World's homeschool program is a four hour visit and doesn't allow access to all areas, but we really enjoyed our visit and are happy for the opportunity as this is something we couldn't do at full price.