San Diego

We've been pretty busy the last month or so, and I have lots of pictures to post. My goal is to post something every day for a while.

When people ask us when we want to start having have kids and we tell them not yet, it's because we're enjoying weekends like this: about a month ago we went to San Diego for the night, just for the heck of it. I've always wanted to see the San Diego temple up close because the pictures always look amazing. It's only 2 hours away, but we made a little trip out of it. I wanted to be spontaneous and sleep on a beach somewhere under the stars-it sounded so romantic until Kyle started telling me about scary people that live on the beach and the possible things that could happen to us. Needless to say, when he admitted that HE would be scared, I quickly changed my mind. So we booked a resort on the beach and did some sightseeing on the way. The trip didn't turn out quite the way we expected, but we still had fun and are glad we went. First of all, we got to our "resort" and found that it was not quite as nice as the internet made it look. The rooms are individual little buildings which was kind of cool, but they weren't in super high quality condition. It was very cool, however, to be just yards from the ocean. They did have a large pool and hot tub, and they also had a seal pool which was fun. They have 2 seals, and how weird is it that one of them is named Gracie and we went to the seal pool just moments before our niece Gracie was born?? The real bummer of the trip was arriving at the temple and finding this:

At least it wasn't closed. Just caged. I guess they're cleaning it. The inside was beautiful though. And I didn't feel too sorry for myself after I met someone that got married there! I guess they sent them a letter back in Feb to let them know, but by then all the arrangments were made and it was too late to change them. Bummer! For those of you who haven't seen the San Diego temple...it usually looks something like this:

One of our favorite things we did was visit the USS Midway museum. We were able to walk around the USS Midway, which was an aircraft carrier of the US Navy and was first to be commissioned after the end of WWII. It was used in the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm. It was really neat. On top they have tons of actual planes and rescue helicpters from the 2 wars, and some we could even walk inside. We were amazed at all the buttons and controls. They gave us each headphones and a little recorder thing and at each exhibit (plane, etc) if we wanted to hear about it we just pressed a button. They had around 65 exhibits, from planes to bedrooms and bathrooms on the ship. It was really interesting. It made me appreciate what so many people have gone through to fight for our freedom. We only saw some of the "nicer" bedrooms and bathrooms for the officers and they were pretty small quarters. We wished we would have had time to tour the rest. (We should have learned after our trip to LA to keep more quarters in the car for parking.) I thought the barber shop was really neat, and also the laundry room and hospital. These are only a few of our pictures. After Kyle mentioned that it would be cool to show pictures to his students someday, I managed to capure every plane, helicopter, and room on the ship.

The ship is so large it was impossible to get a picture of the whole thing. I stole these from the internet:

Our room from the outside:

And the best part: the backyard:

Last but not least, we went to one of our new favorite restaurants La Casa de Reyes in Old Towne San Diego. We went there with my parents when they visited and it's soooo good. They have Mariachi players that walk around outside and play for you.

I really need to learn how to do picture collages....