Our month in Cali is over and we are headed to the Grand Canyon! We are so excited to see the Grand Canyon and the grand-parental units that will be visiting!!! I must admit I am NOT excited to leave summer-type weather and go back to winter. <Insert whining and crying>. But as the Lord …
After the Padres Game, Cabrillo Natl Monument, and Pacific Beach - we ended our weekend at La Jolla Cove. We just LOVED these sea lions! 🙂 And we love interpreting what they are trying to communicate. This guy in between the birds tails saw that I was trying to get a picture of him and …
After a great Saturday morning at Cabrillo National Monument - we headed to Pacific Beach to check into Surfer Beach Hotel. This turn/road reminded me of one of my fave roads in the world....Arlie Rd headed toward Wrightsville Beach. Forgive the bug guts, please. AB was pretty mesmerized! Those sailboats look so tiny but they …
Friday we left Desert Hot Springs and drove 2 hours to San Diego. How shocking that it was cows, hills, grass, and land in between here (Desert Hot Springs) and the beach. Cali has all kinds of surprises. We decided to make it an extra-special birthday weekend for E so we left Woody behind and …
Continue reading San Diego – Padres Game & Cabrillo National Monument
This 3rd week in Cali was a quiet week of school and work.... and play with our neighbors! We love getting our school / desk work done well before lunch so we can spend lots of time at the pool or at a park. Here are some highlights from the week. 🙂 We got to …
I know everybody wants to hear from Mr B - but his post isn't ready yet. So it's still me! 🙂 2 weeks down and 2 weeks to go in Cali! We've had a great time in Desert Hot Springs / Palm Springs. We've thoroughly enjoyed pretty sunrises and sunsets, heated pools, the mineral hot …
Continue reading Cali Week 2 – Sand to Snow / Cactus to Clouds
Here's the rest of week one in Cali to add on to my Joshua Tree Day 1 and Ryan Mountain posts... After our big climb on Sunday at Joshua Tree - we spent the rest of the day "rock scrambling" around Skull Rock. These piles of rocks are a magma called monzogranite that got pushed …
To continue from yesterday's post, here's the next part of our Joshua Tree National Park adventure. To start our 2nd day in the park, we had pumped the kids up for a big climb! It was basically an hour of climbing stairs. I knew they would need extra encouragement - especially the ones with the …
I may or may not be writing this post in the hot sunshine by the pool. It's in the 80s today. Okay I will admit it - I'm at the pool! Can you hear me singing where you are!? This month seems to have turned into the replacement of June for us back "at home" …
Continue reading Cali – Week 1 Recap & Joshua Tree Day 1 (and some parenting lessons)
After an amazing long-weekend in Big Bend, we were off to El Paso. But not so fast..... We were slowed down a bit by one of Woody's shoes. He said he was never buying Nike again 🙂 . Thank God that we "just happened" to have enough of a signal to call somebody. We have …
