Trip to California for Mother's Day/ Drew's work training May 2011

May of 2011 (Mother's Day) Drew and I went to California. We had Drew's mom come up and stay with the kids while Drew and I went to California for a work training. He was gone most of the day and I stayed at the beautiful hotel and read, worked out, sat by the pool and when he got back we went looking around to different places. It was very relaxing and was very nice to get away from the kids for a while and "relax" and not have to do anything but enjoy doing what i wanted.
Here are a bunch of random pictures of the trip

This was our last day in California, Our flight didn't leave till later and we had already checked out of our hotel. So we went exploring this is Sea Port Village.... we were trying to find a parking spot and at the stop sign next to us was this beautiful Horse Carriage.

Drew vacationed a few times as a child with his dad sister and step mom.... this was one of the restaurants that they ate at.... it was neat for Drew to have some good happy memories of his dad.
There was a guy there that balanced random rocks on each other.... he would gather all different sizes and stack them. It was really cool.
We were going to go see a light house on Port Loma and on the way we saw this cemetery. We decided to stop and look around. It was a Navy Cemetery and i thought it was extra neat because my dad served in the navy for a few years before moving to Utah.
This is Ocean Beach... I thought this picture has such a peaceful look to it.... it was really cold but soooo pretty.
More of the Cemetery... it was on both sides of the road thousands and thousands of white head stones. When we stopped and looked around we saw dates from just months before to years and years ago.... it was so pretty and so sad, i couldn't believe all the service men and women who had lost their lives.
It goes on forever.... was truly amazing!!!
This is Drew at Ocean Beach .... it was a little cliff he was standing on.
Me... it was cold and windy and being by the beach it was even colder.... but sooo pretty

We went to the USS Midway and toured the Aircraft Carrier.... This is Drew in one of the cockpits that was on show.
A Naval ship headed to sea.
Another picture of the ship
Drew by his favorite jet F14.... Top Gun fan
This was a picture outside of our hotel room.... they had a bunch of water sport races going on the day we left there were about 100 row boats.... looked really neat and was fun to watch them race.
We went out to lunch right next the the midway at a restaurant called the fish market. And while we were there we saw a boat out there following something pretty slow you could tell they were looking for something and then all of a sudden you could see this dolphin. It was so neat to watch them feed the Dolphin and they even got him up on the boat.... made lunch very entertaining.
A huge ship on the main street Harbor Drive.
This was outside the USS Midway Museum. I took it cuz it reminded my of my dad and i thought it was cool :)
This was standing on the main ground and zooming in.... the ship was huge and we could have spent all day there if time allowed but we didn't get there till later and they closed about 2 hours after we got there.
This is a picture of the Dolphin up in the boat.
Cheese... this was in the hotel .... i had sat by the pool and got fried and it was cold outside and all i had brought was this black jacket i wore it everywhere i was sooooo cold.
This is a picture from our hotel room... it was a really fancy restaurant and they had some kind of convention going on..... which reminds me. Drew and I were headed to go somewhere and as we were walking out i ran into an old neighbor. It was so cool i ran up to him gave him a hug we talked for a few minutes and then we left he lives somewhere in Utah and me from NM met up in California i hadn't seen him in 20 or more years it was pretty cool.
This was the bay outside our hotel.... our hotel was gorgeous and the area surrounding it was so pretty.... for sure a nice paradise to relax!!! Only thing that would have been better would be warmer weather and not windy.
This is the sunset outside our window the first night we got there.
Drew and I got up early one morning before he had to go to his training and went to the San Diego Temple. This is the most beautiful Temple EVER!!!! I always wanted to get married there and of course that didn't happen but it was so nice to go there and visit... for sure one of the most beautiful places on Earth!!! This picture was taken from the car driving there. It was so neat to go up a hill and then to see the temple beaming in beauty....
This is what it looked like when we walked out of the temple... beautiful blue skies. And if you look closely that is ME standing there in front :)
Another picture as we were pulling up to the temple... i like to see the white fence surrounding it with the palm trees.... AMAZING!!!!
This was about 5:10ish in the morning.... the session we went to started at 5:30 and it was packed.
We visited old town... a lot like NM Old Town, but this guy was dancing with swords and he was awesome.
Me in front of some old wagon thing in Old Town.

This was a really fun trip i was able to sleep and be lazy (well not be a MOM anyway) and got to do what i wanted, we were able to explore and see the surrounding areas. A few other things we were able to do that i didn't take pictures of were..... we went to the lamplight district nearly every night for dinner, it was a street filled with restaurants block after block many different choices and a fun atmosphere. We went to a really good pancake house that was on the food channel i forget the name but they had the most amazing pancakes (Cinnamon and Sugar German Pancakes). We went to a comedy club and laughed our butts off.... i don't remember laughing so hard and crying so hard from laughing it was great. We went across the Coronado bridge and took the long way around and saw into Tijuana.
It was a much needed get away and Thanks to Drew's mom for watching the kids so i could go. It was nice to come home and see my kids the week went by faster then i had thought it would and even though i missed them it was the perfect amount of time away!!!