We Love San Diego!

Neil and I had the chance to take a quick trip to San Diego.

We LOVE San Diego!

We flew into San Diego on Tuesday and found out it was Fat Tuesday and that San Diego has the second largest Mardi Gras celebration.
We have never celebrated or thought about Mardi Gras but thought we would give it a try.

There were over 150,000 people there but it was really tame.

There were fun floats they made snow with bubbles.

Wait Christmas?

We didn't see anyone do the "usual" things for beads.

San Diego is pretty conservative.

Look how cool this sand castle is.

This was at Coranado Beach. We loved Coranado. 

The guy who created this cool sand castle says he comes to the beach a couple days a week and creates a new sand castle. 

Amazing detail. What talent.

My cute fella checking out the water. Way too cold.

You can see the Coranado hotel in the background (red roof).

I would love to have a summer home in Coranado. Loved it.

The sun felt so good. It just warms you inside out. So relaxing!

Some sun and some tunes. Vacations in the sun during yucky end of winter weather is so renewing.

The bay side of Coranado has a beautiful view of downtown San Diego.

Love this cute fella and his smile!

San Diego Old Town

Our only purchase in Old Town was some girl scout cookies.

Thin mints of course.

There was a cute girl pulling a wagon and selling cookies.

La Jolla Beautiful water and cliffs.

It was windy and cold this day but still lots of fun!

In La Jolla there is this small beach area where the seals have made a home.

The seals were so cute. There were even babies.

It was fun to see them come in and out of the water.

House of Blues

We were excited to see J.R. and his band.

We got invited to sound check. So much fun. It was like our own private show.

J.R. and Ryan came and gave us hugs and talked to us after the sound check.

They were so kind and generous.

An amazing show. This concert was with the whole band.

I have to say it was great but I still liked our show here in Utah the best.

Neil and I at the concert. We had front row seats and were right next to the stage.

The concert was an end to a beautiful trip.

Thanks Neil for always being so much fun and for being my best friend.

Swimming With the Dolphins

This was for sure the kids favorite thing of the trip.

Kinsey has had this as a dream to swim with Dolphins. Dream come true!

Sammy Charmer with the Dolphin. He is smiling.

Aaron was a little timid at first..but loved it.

This is the Dolphin push. Each Dolphin pushes on a foot and they take you flying for a ride.

Look at her face. She is loving it. Kinsey for sure went the highest.

Sammy Charmer going for her ride.

Aaron doing the Dolphin dance.

The dolphins warmed up to Kinsey right away.

Sammy dancing.

The dolphins were so cool. My favorite part was watching the kids faces. They were all smiles and glowing. On the plane ride home Kinsey was writing in her journal and she turned the page to show Neil. She had written her bucket list and on it was swimming with the dolphins and she had checked it off. That made Neil smile just as big as she had with the dolphins.

Tulum

This was such an amazing day. Going to Tulum was one of my favorite things.

Of course the boys found lizards. There were Iguanas every where.

The view and Ocean were amazing. It was HOT and HUMID. But so AMAZING!

Tulum is Mayan ruins. It is a village on the side of a cliff over looking the ocean. 

It was an amazing day. The views and ocean were something else.

Look at that view. It is like a post card. So beautiful. Love that boy in the photo too.

My kiddo's. Love these three so much. It was so hot and humid. 

We were melting and stripping to our bathing suits by the end.

Love the view. I wish eveyone could go here and see this.

The kids like to tease me because I am afraid of heights and this was on the edge of a cliff .

So glad Tulum was one excursion we chose. It was AMAZING!

Jungle Cruise Snorkeling,,,Cancun

We had such a fun time on our vacation to Cancun Mexico. 

We went on a jungle cruise/snorkeling trip.

The kids drove a boat and Neil and I drove a boat. We went thru a river/jungle and into the ocean where we stopped and snorkeled by the reef. The reef in Cancun is the second largest in the world next to the one in Australia. 

Thumbs up for Snorkeling

We loved it!

We saw so many amazing fish.

The water was crystal clear and warm.

Such a great time!

Sammy and Kinsey all ready to go.

Neil and I

This was such a fun activity. We can't wait to go snorkeing again some day.