Michelle

This past weekend my MBA friend Michelle came to visit.  The weather couldn't have been any better for her trip down from Northern California.  We enjoyed relaxing on the beach and watching a beautiful sunset on Sunday evening.  Have I mentioned how much I love living here?

Safari Park

Today Christina and I went to the Safari Park.   I had never been there before, but was surprised at how much I enjoyed it.  On the way back we drove by an orchards with a sign that said we could come pick our own oranges, naturally we had to. :)  I also introduced Christina to Extraordinary Deserts, of course she immediately became a fan.

Catalina

Christina came to visit me.  Our 1st stop: Catalina, well the first actual stop was the DoubleTree hotel in Orange County we enjoyed some delicious warm chocolate chip cookies. 

We rented a golf cart and drove around the island, it was a nice way to see a lot of the island for our short day trip.  Christina and I were also highly amused by the fairy, so of course we needed a shot of that too.

Staycation w/ Konnie

Konnie came to visit me last weekend. It was so great to see her and have my own little staycation in San Diego. We took the ferry ride to Coronado, walked around Balboa Park, saw the Seals in La Jolla, went to a bonfire on the beach (Konnie thought that was really cool esp in the middle of winter. :) ) Unfortunately the sun didn't come out much while she was here so we never ended up going swimming in the water. Although every time we went to the beach Konnie pretty much got soaked from going too far in the waves.

On her last day we went after church and she pretty much stood like this in the water for about an hour and didn't want to come out. It's fun to see how much other people love the water too.

Merry Christmas

Since I work at a company that's very seasonal, Christmas, Valentine's and Mother's Day are big ones for us. I decided it would be best to NOT ask for any extra time off. So... my parents decided to come see me for the holiday. My mom was glad since it had been since college that she got to spend the holidays with her mom in her home town. It has been super fun to have them here. On my last day of work my boss let me leave early, and I actually got out before the sun went down, I was super stoked. We went down to the beach where I went on an awesome run on the beach and then we enjoyed one of the prettiest sunsets I've ever seen.

An MBA reunion

This past week Connie came to visit, she's my friend, previous roommate and MBA classmate. I've been trying to get her to move out here and she agreed that SD is a great place. So she finally came to visit with some companies and play while I wasn't at work. We went to Sea World where we saw the Polar Express in 4D, it was pretty awesome when they started singing about hot chocolate and you could suddenly smell hot chocolate. Then we went to December nights in Balboa Park. Hopefully one of her connections will pan out so she can move here and we can have more fun together!