Matt and I spend the last week in sunny, beautiful San Diego, CA. It was nice to have one last vacation before I start back to school. We stayed with our friend Brian, who graciously let us sleep in his detached living room.
On Tuesday we went to Disneyland in Anaheim, just an hour and a half up the coast. We had a blast!! We got there bright and early, used fast passes and single rider lines to scoot through lines quickly, and the weather was perfect. It was fun to act like a kid and relive past Disney experiences.
(I'm in the very back, hands up)
We spent several days on Ocean Beach and Mission Beach soaking up the rays. The beaches are very different from NC beaches, but still fun and relaxing. These two beaches had wide areas of sand, but no sand dunes (weird!), really long, stringy seaweed all over, and no shells (also weird). Other beaches are very rocky and basically just cliffs, but all seem to have turquoise blue-green water. After getting over the initial shock of the water temperature, we went swimming and wave-jumping. The waves were HUGE and lots of surfers took advantage of them, which was fun to watch.
We went to Balboa Park one day, which is a large complex of cultural and botanical sites. There was a cactus garden, rose garden, butterfly garden; there were theaters with beautiful architecture, 18 museums (we went to none of them), and an artist colony where we could watch artists at work and see their art for sale.
Throughout the week, we had fun reading Trivia Pursuit cards to each other and guessing answers. There were also some epic corn hole games played among Matt and Brian's family. We taught them how to play Fish Bowl and they were hooked, so we played that several times and laughed a lot. Matt and I both finished two books during the week. Fun!
On Saturday we went to Coronado Island, a very swanky island. Coronado is also home of the Hotel del Coronado, where Some Like It Hot was filmed. It's the largest all-wood hotel - very expensive! We also went to the heart of downtown San Diego and saw the big boats and ships in the port.
Next we went to La Jolla to see the seals on the coast. The views were incredible and the smell was almost equally overpowering. Seals are stinky!
To end the evening, we went to Mission Bay and had a bonfire on the beach complete with pizza, s'mores, and fireworks.
Sunday was a full day of traveling and we got back to the apartment late after picking Charlie up from a friend's apartment. He was very glad we were back and he could go home.
This week I will be setting up my classroom and getting ready for school to start next Thursday. I'm thinking about all my friends who have already started teaching this week ~ best of luck to all of you!
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