Grandma said we needed a girls trip--so we made it happen! After a few months of planning and deciding where to go we agreed on San Diego! Mom flew to Phoenix to spend a few days with Nick and I before we flew to California to meet up with Grandma, my Aunt Carol, and Katherine (who flew in from Washington DC). We packed as much as you could possibly do into 3 full days and all went home exhausted! Since pictures tell the best stories, here is all that we did in pictures!
Day 1: Friday Sept 30th--Mormon Battalion Historic Site in Old Town San Diego. As always the LDS church does a fabulous job portraying the trek that the Saints took from Iowa to California as they joined the US Army as a way to move the church out west. Click here to see more info about this neat place.
I'm glad I was just an honorary member because I couldn't have handled the real thing!
30 pound gun that the Saints had to march with
A sister missionary teaching Katherine and me how to mine for gold
Next stop for day 1--The San Diego Zoo. I thought it lived up to all the hype. That place was huge! Literally I spent most of my day looking at this thing pictured below!
Katherine and I at the Zoo
Loved seeing the Pandas
So many different types of Flamingos
And these enormous polar bears were out playing
Day 2- October 1st: Balboa Park. It was a gorgeous day so it was great to walk around and look at all the beautiful buildings and gardens. We went to a few museums and the arboretum.
Loved the architecture and the lily pads in the water
Mom and Katherine enjoying all the plants
The next stop on day 2 was Hotel Del Cornado on Cornado Island. We ate a wonderful lunch overlooking the ocean, played on the beach, and help Katherine find shells to add to her collection.
Sisters!
Katherine and Grandma on our 2 hour Harbor Cruise
Mom and I looking a little wind blown
The San Diego Harbor
We drove around that night and came upon this beautiful sunset off the coast of Point Loma
Day 3- October 2nd: A stop in La Jolla to see the San Diego Temple.
In the middle of nowhere was a sculpture garden (I'm convinced only my aunt Carol knows how to find these random places)-so Katherine and I decided we needed to give our best model poses!
Finally back to Point Loma to see the coast line and the old lighthouse
We had such a great time, and by the end of the trip my stomach hard from a combination of eating really good food and laughing so hard with some of my favorite people! Can't wait until next year! Love these ladies.
Oh, Fall-if only you could last all year.
