San Diego Cont'd... Sea World!!

We spent two wonderful days in Sea World. We just took our time and enjoyed the whole Sea World experience!

 Here we are!

 The dolphin show... it was way different than the old days at Sea World. Pretty high tech now!

 Hey Mike... watch out for that squiggly above your head!!

 We LOVED all the aquariums!

 Cross off bucket list... hold a star fish in my hand!

 Hmmmm... a dirty job... but someone has to vacuum all the fish poop off the bottom of the aquarium!

 Sky ride! We love sky rides!

 Sea World is not complete without seeing Shamu or whatever the name is now!

 We rode in this tall thing... not real exciting...

... but a great view!

 We even watched the Elmo movie!

 Ok... we ended day one at Sea World. We wanted some GOOD food... Sorry... but the food at Sea World is NOT that great. So we went to a VERY nice seafood restuarant down the street from our hotel. Classy and yummy!

 We're baaaaaaack!!!!

 We rode this... We waited til the last day to ride the wet rides... did I mention we did not bring luggage on this trip... only backpacks... we didn't rent cars and couldn't figure out how to do the luggage thing, so we did a three day trip in back packs... Fun! So we didn't care what happened to our clothes on the last day!

 This was my absolute favorite show... Pet's Rule! Way cute!

 I want one of these!!! It is a pigmy hedgehog! It is SO cute and Arizona needs these cuz they eat scorpions!!

 Look at that little face!

 The wave ride!!! We did it and YES we got WET! Fun ride!

 Ummm Mike... do you want your hat back now?

 The sky ride AGAIN!!

 Watch out!

AND... the grand finale... I had to hold some more sea creatures before we left!! Sea World was a blast... I want to go back.... HEY... I can go back! Our tickets are good for the rest of the year!! Thanks Mike.. (and thanks for talking me into riding a taxi everywhere... I could get used to that!) you're the BEST!!

Humphrey's Half Moon Inn...San Diego!

After spending several hours in SLC we hopped on a plane to San Diego (can you believe us!?!?)... Afterall... this was our 5 year anniversary! I found a pretty good deal (I'm still pretty cheap but Mike reminded me this was our ANNIVERSARY and we could spend a little... so I spent an extra $10 to get a room with a view!) on a GREAT hotel... It was SO great that I'm devoting a whole blog post to it! It is called the Humphrey's Half Moon Inn on Shelter island in San Diego!

 The whole place had a tropical theme going on.

 The view of our patio

 Just walking around the place... so pretty...

 and it was right on the ocean...

 Ok.... look in the middle of the picture... this was just right around the corner from our room... there are two SLEEPING parrots... I tried everything to wake them up for a picture... but NO!!! Lazy birds!

 Pretty flowers and plants everywhere!

 Lousy birds... still asleep... I have a bunch of pictures of sleeping birds!

 This is the restuarant where we ate breakfast each morning... great food and a great view!!

We had a great relaxing time here... it was so fun to stay in a hotel with atmosphere... not to mention sharing it with my GREAT/handsome/wonderful/eternal buddy Mike!!!

Next... on to Sea World!!

RS training!

The week of Conference there is training for all the auxiliaries in SLC. I went last year to the RS training and HAD to go again this year! The flights cooperated so Mike and I flew to SLC on our anniversary! We went last year on our anniversary too! It was VERY cold and drizzly but I didn't care.

It was in the old tabernacle. I love that building. I got there early and sat in the second row. I would have sat in the FIRST row but they were reserved for General RS Board members. When they came in I talked to one of them... very nice ladies.

The flowers were lovely.... even thought they were FAKE! It was a GREAT training. I just LOVE the general RS presidency... especially Sister Beck. She is awesome! I was going to mingle afterwards and try to shake someones hand (I shook Sister Thompson's last year)... BUT... during the last hour I kept getting out of state phone numbers show up on my cell phone(yes... I kept looking at my cell phone... I just had a FEELING that I might hear from Trent while I was there)... I couldn't leave... I was in the second row! (that would NOT have been cool!) and Sister Beck is the last speaker... so when it was over I ran out... cuz I knew it was my missionary!!! I called Kristin and Trent had called her too but wouldn't tell her anything, but she explained to him where I was. I took a chance and called the Oregon number back and Trent answered! He got his VISA and would be going to Brazil in a few days! It was the news we had been waiting for for over 6 months! So that was way cool! Then I met up with Mike and Dan and we did a little antiquing and then ate at our favorite resturant... Tucanos!!!

Sooooooooooo.... what did we do next?!?!?

Dan drove us back to the airport and we flew to San Diego!!! Crazy!!!!!

I'll blog about that next!