Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Beautiful San Diego

It's always nice to go on vacation when someone else pays for it!!! So that's exactly what Cole and I did....without kids....even better!

The wonderful Dentists that I work for planned a trip for the staff members of both offices to go to the Pediatric Dental Convention in San Diego. Each employee was given a stipend to use on their expenses for travel, lodging and food. I chose to use some of the money to bring Cole along with me. We decided to fly since Cole couldn't get any time off work and we would only be there for 2 1/2 days. After all was said and done we only had to pay for our food expense while we were there. It was AWESOME and a much needed break!

To make it qualify as a work expense we all had to attend at least one class at the convention. So we did it together the first morning of the trip. Here are only half of the crazy group of people that I work with. The other half didn't join us for the fun.


After our morning of listening to speakers and walking around 100's of vendors booths we were free to spend the weekend doing whatever we wanted!

So Cole and I went here:


And ate this :


Or at least attempted :)


(don't tell him, but I don't think it's all going to fit)

 

This place was featured on Triple D aka Diner's, Drive in's, and Dive's. Cole's favorite show on the Food Network. I'm pretty sure his life goal is to someday own a restaurant that makes it on this show.

Then we headed up the coast to soak in all the fresh sea air we could find. We ended up here for about 2 hours!




This is La Jolla Cove. The Sea Lions come right up onto the beach to sun bathe for hours. What a Life!!



It was really windy while we were there and cold for us Arizonians that are used to 100 degree weather, but one of us thought it would be fun to see how close we could get to the water...


and this was the results...


Thanks Amy for being lovely photographer!


We ended our day with a ride on the old Bellemont wooden roller coast, which was fun and jarring. I think we all needed to see the chiropractor after that ride.

The next day was spent driving around with no plans or destination in mind. We did find time to stop here:


What a perfect way to end our trip! We didn't have time to do a session like we had hoped, but enjoyed being on the grounds to take in the beautiful view.


Overall, it was a fast, relaxing trip that we both loved and needed. We missed the kids tons and saw lots of things they would have enjoyed, but it was nice to spend time together as just husband and wife....and not mom and dad:)

1 comment:

Amy said...

Oh so lucky!! I want a vacation so bad right now! Looks beautiful!