REWIND: Jetting- San Diego jul.9-11.10

One benefit of interning with an airline company is the free flight benefits. One benefit of interning with JetBlue- personal TVs on each seat and LOTS of legroom. We have really enjoyed "jetting" with them this summer. Our friends in the MBA program, the Aho's, were living in San Diego for the summer so we decided to take a little vacation out there to see them. We fly stand-by for free so it's a gamble each time at the gate whether or not we'll get a seat or not. Luckily we got out of Salt Lake on the first flight to Long Beach and didn't have to wait in the airport all day that Friday. Matt had to fly "jump seat" with the flight attendants in the back and the boys shared a seat and I had a seat. Thank goodness it's a short flight over there!

Matt had a meeting in Long Beach on Saturday morning so we drove around Friday. We saw Newport beach and Huntington beach. The boys ran around in the COLD ocean. Brayden loved ever minute of it. Taylor was a little more apprehensive... uncomfortable temperatures bother him.

JetBlue has a contract with a hotel in Long Beach that we could stay in for relatively cheap. We were told to being extra socks for our kids so they wouldn't have to walk on the ground it's that yucky. Going into it with that in mind we were pleasantly surprised. They're currently re-doing the rooms and ours wasn't bad at all.

After Matt's meeting we drove to San Diego to play with our friends. I'm so sad I don't have any pictures of us at the beach there. We met up with the Aho's and the Jones' (whose house were living in right now) who are both interning in San Diego. The boys (husbands) went surfing and boogie boarding while the girls and the kids stayed on the beach to play in the sand.

Stacie and I went out boogie boarding for about 30 minutes and LOVED it! We had so much fun even though the water was so cold. By the time we called it quits my feet were numb! As we came in Brayden grabbed my hand and wanted to go out. He couldn't get enough of boogie boarding. Have you ever see those people with dogs on the surf boards... that's what Brayden looked like. He would hold himself up on his hands and knees on the boogie board while I navigated us in and out of the ocean on the waves. He would laugh so hard! It didn't even matter that my legs were now starting to get numb. We had a great dinner with our friends and then went back to the Aho's to play games. We stayed up WAY to late and our sanity went to bed around 11:00- and we stayed up a few hours more. That was such a fun night!


After church on Sunday we went to La Jolla and to the tide pools. The boys really enjoyed walking around on the rocks and seeing all the sea life.

Taylor trying to touch the crab in the rock - - - - - - - - - - - - Crab

Josie sat in the middle of the pool

After three trys this was the best picture of the boys - - - Brayden with Josie

MJ and Taylor watching for seals - - - - - - - - - - Conran and Aho families

Thanks for hosting us guys! We had such a fun time and can't wait to get back to Provo to hang out!