San Diego: Day One

 First of all,

thanks everyone for your nice comments on my last post. that was a rough day...thanks for being understanding and giving and giving me hope and advice. sometimes, i say too much of how i feel & can get carried away! but I am feeling tons better about the whole thing now.

AND NOW....

I am FINALLY posting about our WONDERFUL & AMAZING San Diego trip.

This is day one:

-went and picked up the car we rented from Budget. (thanks to our buddy, cole)

- dropped jax off at aunt monica's house. (we're SO thankful for her.)
-then we headed out onto the open road!

Andrew drove the whole time both ways. yep, he's amazing. i still don't have a valid license, and i'm not a city driver at all.

i love california! VERY first thing we noticed about cali is : it is SO green!

 

and here are we are checking in at our condos!

 Mission Valley, San Diego

I could NOT contain my excitement!

Are we really here? on vacation? without jax?

Then we  headed to La Jolla, which after making huge fools of ourselves, discovered it's pronounced, "la hoya"

 

this place was amazing. Again, the excitement levels were a little out of control. we don't leave the state of utah much.

wish we could have spent more time here at this glorious place. it was amazing. the water crashing over the rocks, watching the surfers & sea lions in the water, the cool , crisp breeze against our faces, the sun setting over the waves.
 We felt free.
this was exactly what we needed.

just when i thought it couldn't get any better, we see these silly things! just chillin right by the beach, by people!

i think i will frame this and put it in my bathroom.

i love tall palm trees.

ahhh, so beautiful.


 

andrew said, "I can see why people are tree huggers here". There are tons and tons of cool and amazing trees everywhere. the place is SO green and gorgeous, even in what should be the dead of winter. BUT the pollution here is out of control. yeah, guess I'd be a tree hugger too.

i love trees.

 

back at the condo, ready to go hot tubbin!!!

Day one was amazing.

just one regret: we never went back to la jolla. I wish we would have at some point in the trip. that might have been my favorite place.

Days 2, 3, 4, & 5 coming soon!