Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Santa Catalina the Island of Romance


We just celebrated our 10th anniversary in May and Ben surprised me by planning a trip down to Catalina Island. We had so much fun. Both of us had never been, everything was perfect. We fed the fish, visited all of the ice cream parlors, went for walks, rented bikes, saw the botanical gardens, went to the famous Casino (which we found out is not a gambling casino. Casino also means a gathering place for social amusement-interesting) and watched a movie in the amazing art deco theater inside the casino, we went kayaking and snorkeling, we saw tons of fish and seals, so we had a ton of fun and highly recommend going sometime. We were there 3 days, just us, no kids, it was awesome. Sure, we totally missed the kids, but they had so much fun with Grandma and Grandpa. We've never left the kids for more that a night, so I was a little nervous, but it was worth it to have a lot of one on one time, and we knew they were safe and happy with Grandma and Grandpa.

Here I am about to touch a cactus at the botanical gardens. Fyi - Cactus touching is a big no no-doi.

Here we are in our stinky wetsuits. Have you ever worn a wetsuit? This was my first time and man they are stinky!
We had fun on these cruisers.

4 comments:

Dan, Pam and Family said...

Cute pictures,
The Wetsuits are my fav.
Glad you were able to get away and celebrate the big 10
:-)
Pam

Home said...

sweet update! Im jealous of all your fun. It would be awesome to one day do a couples trip...well wait, maybe not with you and matts history :) haha. love the song to match the post :)

kelsey said...

How fun! Happy 10th!

ohana=)mama said...

wow what a fun surprise! I love it.