Wednesday, September 30, 2009

San Diego!!

One of the perks of living in Arizona is that we are FIVE hours from the beach! This is pretty awesome for us because from Utah it's more like a 10-13 hour drive. We decided to visit San Diego over Labor Day weekend with the Rafferty's. It was such a blast! I went to high school with James and Amy and they actually live in our same apartment complex! It's been great having them around and we had a blast together in San Diego. We packed SO much into 2 and a half days! Here's a few of the things we did:
We attended a session at the San Diego temple. It was so beautiful!

We took a complete gamble on the food places we tried out, but it worked out very well! Saturday night we went and tried out a pizza place in Little Italy. And it was AMAZING! Definitely the best pizza I have ever had. Mike said it was the first time since his mission that he had pizza that tasted like that.

Sunday morning we went to an amazing ward! I have never been to such a touching and spiritual testimony meeting. After church we went to La Jolla where there were sea caves and beautiful beach.

We also got to see a cute family of sea lions. There was two babies, a mom, and a dad. The dad was GINORMOUS!!! But I didn't get a picture of them all together.

We spent a little time playing at the beach:

Later we went over to Point Loma to go to Cabrillo National Monument where we got to go inside a Lighthouse and get a quick look at tide pools.

Amy and I tried really hard to get a cool jumping picture, but we didn't do so hot...

That night we found another awesome place to eat called Rockin' Baja. It was a bunch of fun and way yummy!

Monday we drive over to Coronado. We chilled at a beach/park for just a little bit. Then we grabbed some yummy frozen yogurt and headed over to Old Town. We were way excited to see the Mormon Battalion Monument there, but it's closed for renovation so we'll just have to see it next time. We did get to see a grape stomp like in I Love Lucy, so that was awesome!

On our way to San Diego we passed this hilarious hotel in Gila Bend, AZ called the Space Age Lodge. We thought it was so funny that we decided to make awesome tin foil alien hats and take a picture on our way back. (James' idea) We were trying to beat the sunset, but we didn't do a very good job.

8 comments:

Carly said...

Looks like sooooo much fun! I was born in San Diego and still have lots of family there so we visit regularly. It is my most favorite place in the world, I wish I could afford to live there. And La Jolla is my favorite!

Christy said...

What Fun times! Glad your taking the days off to explore and see some sites. Hard work deserves hard play, right? LOVE the alien caps.

Dave and Chelsi said...

How fun! You guys are so cute! Miss ya!

Jake and Madi said...

Hahaha that hotel cracks me up. Jake's dad works in Gila Bend and I've always been a little curious and creeped out by it. Glad you had a good trip!

Russ said...

That looked like so much fun. We love San Diego. I don't think we have ever had bad food there. Rebecca always talks about a place called Johny Manana's where we had some awesome Mexican food by the beach.
You are making Arizona sound better and better. Please try and convince Rebecca!!
See you next week.

Emily said...

Hey Mike and Heidi, I don't know if you remember me but we were in the married student ward with you. Well anyways we moved to Bountiful and I was sitting by a lady who I found out was Mikes grandma! Andyways funny!

Leah Re-Etta said...

I'm so jealous you got to do a session at the San Diego temple. That's my temple... I'm hoping to be able to do one there when I go to California for the holidays.

Katherine said...

Wow, that looks like you had a great time! We are missing having you so close. We are glad you had fun on your trip!