San Diego Scene 2

Our adventurous weekend started on Friday when we went to some friend's house and had a really fun game night! We also met more people in our ward...we love new friends!

On Saturday we went to Old Town. It was the weekend when they celebrate the Mormon Battalion coming to San Diego, so there were lots of fun festivities! They had a bunch of stations where kids could learn how the Mormon Battalion and pioneers lived. They made these really cool biscuits - we'll post a picture of it! There was also doll making, rope making, quilt tying and brick making. We walked to the LDS Mormon Battalion Visitor's Center. They have some pretty cool things there to tell you about the Mormon Battalion. Ammon and I thought it had a Harry Potter feel because they had talking pictures in picture frames! After that we just walked up and down the streets of Old Town. It was fun to see all the arts and craft booths. One street was lined with Mexican restaurants, and OH MAN, did it smell good! We bought some fresh tortillas from one place. We were hooked, so we ended up getting lunch there!

After lunch we drove to Coronado Island. It's really a peninsula, not an island, but it's called Coronado Island because the connecting piece of land is so small. We went to the beach, took off our shoes and walked up and down the beach barefoot! It was beautiful weather, in the 80's! It was another wonderful weekend!

San Diego Scene 1

Ammon and I have decided to do something "blog-worthy" each weekend. So here begins our adventures in San Diego, aka "San Diego Scene!"

Friday:

We went to the San Diego LDS temple. WOW! THIS is THE MOST BEAUTIFUL temple we have EVER been in! So gorgeous! We had the opportunity to do sealings. We really enjoyed how the sealer would stop every once in a while and teach us. What a wonderful spirit there is in the temple, and how grateful we are to be able to live so close to one!

Saturday:

Today we went to Cabrillo National Monument (CMN) which is located on Point Loma. CNM recognizes Captain Cabrillo who was the first explorer to find Point Loma. There is a light house there and it teaches you about light houses in the "assistant's home." We also went to the tide pools and saw a star fish, crabs, shell crabs, mino and Sea enenimies(sp)! We had fun walking on the rocks, watching the waves, talking and exploring together!

That night we got to go to the adult session of our stake conference.

Sunday:

After church (general session of stake conference) we drove to a local lake called Lake Miramar. It's a really big lake with a walking path all the way around it. We walked the 5 miles around the lake and saw many runners, bikers, roller bladers and scooter riders. It was a beautiful day for a walk! The lake is a drinking water reservoir. Fish are stocked in it, so during the summer you can go fishing there. That night we had some new friends over for dinner and to play games.

We had a very fun and relaxing weekend and hope to have many many MANY more like it!

Our New Home

Here are pictures of our new home. We moved all of our boxes into our place (with the help of wonderful ward members) last Sunday. Here it is a week later!

Zoo Passes

We decided to get a year long membership to the zoo. It costs $40/person for a day, or $106 for 2 local adults for a year. Can we say no-brainer! We went and bought our passes yesterday, and really enjoyed the hour and a half we spent there! We are very excited to go back! It's only about 10 minutes (in light traffic) for us to get there!

Roughin it in Cali

With our move, we had an interesting time frame, in which we were homeless for a while. We had to be out of our first place by December 28th, but couldn't move into our new place until January 8th. We spent a week of it in California. We stayed with some family, but we decided that if you're going to rough it somewhere, California is fantastic place. Californians were saying it was cold, we were saying it was beautiful weather!