During soccer season, one of my son's teammates' parents said she pulled her kids out of private school in order to travel and homeschool for a year. She got the idea from another friend (
their family blog here). At first, I thought the idea was a bit unstructured and a little crazy, but it grew on me after I had some time to absorb the concept. Trust me, we are not rich by any stretch of the imagination. Our home is very old and small, and while we don't scrape by to pay our bills, we do have to keep an eye on where our pennies are going. But although we can't afford to take a year and travel the world with the kids, I still think it would be great to take the kids on shorter trips...
When the reserves insisted on sending me to San Diego for a week to do some admin processing, I decided it was an opportunity for the kids to see something new. Personally, I wouldn't mind being stationed in San Diego. It's been a long time since I've been there, and I was never there long enough to see anything beyond the Gas Lamp Quarter. :) So this time, I was determined to take the kids to hit all the major high points, with the help of my parents. On our first full day in San Diego, we hit Legoland.
My two year old was an inch shy for most of the smaller kid things. My nearly 12 year old wasn't able to make it into the one workshop he wanted - the Mindstorms. However, we did have a nice day. Both kids enjoyed driving the cars and boats, and checking out the Lego sculptures around the park.
There's also a great little toddler playground in Duplo Town... so it wasn't a complete loss for the 2 year old, but I think the older one was a little old for Legoland. (He might've been ok if he liked rides, but he doesn't.)
Anyway, I think we might bring the little one back again someday, but leave the older one to do something else.
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