Thursday, August 4, 2011

Catalina Island

Back in June, we celebrated our 12th anniversary.  We were in Twin Lakes, so didn't really do anything to celebrate the day.  Fast forward to July, and with all our weekends at the beach and fishing season in full swing, we still hadn't got around to celebrating. 
Finally, we realized we really needed to get something planned!  Mark planned a quick get-a-way trip for us to Catalina Island for 4 days.  Diana was able to take the kids for us (huge thank you for that!!!), and we took off the last week in July. 

I have to say, the trip came at the perfect time for us.  We hadn't realized how exhausted we were, and spent our time just enjoying being together and relaxing.  The only thing we scheduled was a couples massage.  The rest of the time was spent eating, walking around town, hanging out on the beach, resting, and eating some more  :)

We are usually the tourists that have to do all the "stuff". Snorkeling, renting scooters, boats, bikes, jet skis, whatever. This time, we literally did nothing. And completely enjoyed every minute!
 This was our beautiful hotel.  We saw very few, if any new construction type buildings on the island.  It was mostly Spanish and some Victorian architecture.

 There were also very few normal sized cars on the island.  All the locals had their own golf carts - some of them tricked out, lol!

 26 weeks pregnant


I brought a couple books, and the "eye candy" you see here enertained Mark.  The harbor was filled with probably up to 100 boats, mostly yachts anchored up and coming and going.  That, and plans for his new boat  :)  Yes, just a week before we left on our trip, Mark put an offer on a boat moored in Newport Beach.  On our trip down, he drove up to see it while I went back to our hotel in San Diego to relax.  

1 comment:

The Wilde Family said...

Yay, I'm so glad you posted about your trip. Catalina looks beautiful and very relaxing. That's so funny about the tricked out golf carts, that sounds very small town like, lol.