Eggetts come to California

As July came to an end and August began, we had a fun week with my family! My parents had originally planned to come into town a week later, so Ammon and I had planned a camping trip with a few friends. When my parent's trip got moved up, we just re-worked our schedule a little.

On Friday, Ammon took a half day at work and we headed to Julian, CA. We had heard fun things about this small town, and thought that our campground was close to it. We had an enjoyable time, but it was a lot smaller than we had thought it would be! We had planned to spend a few hours there, and was able to stretch our time and stay for a whole hour! We were listening to The Hunger Games audiobook during our drive, so we just went to our campsite and listened to the book for a bit longer. We walked around the Dos Picos Campground for a bit, then started a fire to cook our tin foil dinners. Since we were only going to be staying one night, we decided not to bring our tent, but brought hammocks instead. However, this campsite didn't allow anything in the trees. Lucky for us, we brought our air mattress as well. But we didn't end up using it. After our friends arrived, we ate dinner, roasted smores, and had a great time around the fire. When we were all heading off for bed, Ammon and I decided to just drive home instead. It meant a better nights sleep, and we didn't feel like we'd miss out on much by going home now, since everyone else was going to sleep now anyways!




Saturday morning we woke up well rested - maybe a little tired because we had been up so late, but our bodies weren't hurting from camping :) We still had to do some camping clean up before the family all came over in a few hours. My parents had driven to CA all day Friday, then Saturday morning went to the Safari Park with Elise's family. After the Safari Park, they came over to our place and the kids "took a nap" (or that was the plan) then we all went down to our pool and played there. JD was so cute because some other people in the pool were playing with a big ball, and that was THE ONLY THING that JD was interested in! So Ammon went and found a few of our balls that JD could play with in the pool. JD loved it! That night we brought in food from The Kebab Shop for dinner. I think everyone LOVED it!! It is one of our most favorite restaurants, and one that we will DEARLY miss after we have moved! Visit www.thekebabshop.com if you want to be jealous :)

Sunday we went to church, then came back to our place and mostly relaxed the rest of the day. Oh, the reason my parents ended up coming a week earlier than originally planned was because my dad had a business trip here in San Diego this week. My dad's meetings started Sunday afternoon, so he took off to his meetings and the three of us just hung out here at the house. This trip was very much more relaxed than the last time my parents were here. We mostly just enjoyed eachother's company!

On Monday Dad and Ammon had to go to work, so Mom and I went shopping! We had a great time and found some great new things - all at JC Penny's; one of our favorite clothing stores! After work, the 4 of us had and my dad made the most amazing cookies for us! It's his famous chocolate chip cookie recipe, but instead of chocolate chips, he put in white chocolate chips and craisins! They're to die for!

On Tuesday after the men went to work, Mom and I made yummy pumpkin muffins. Then we went to San Clemente to spend the day with Lina, Elise and her kids. We made some very cute cards that Mom had prepared for us! It was a lot of fun!

Wednesday...Mom and I made more cards during the day, then went and picked up the men from work and headed out to Coronado Island. We had a picnic dinner (thanks Subway!) on the beach then went boogie boarding. There was a slight breeze, I had goose bumps, so Ammon had a hard time convincing me to get in the water. But once I got in, I was tons warmer! We had a blast boogie boarding with my dad, and my mom had fun watching from the beach. We saw a lot of dolphins, and some got really close to us at one point! We had awesome waves and were catching them quite easily!

Thursday was Dad's last day of meetings, and he got done at noon. So Ammon took a half day as well, and we headed to Del Mar. One thing that we had wanted to do while living here in San Diego was go to the Del Mar Race Track to watch some horse races. So we did! We had such a wonderful time! Dad had enough foresight to bring along a little fun money (Mom's comment after placing a few bets was, "Now I understand why he said we needed some cash today!" Lol!). After we got the hang of the betting, we did pretty good! Ammon and I want to go again! Next time we'll do better at it and hope to make back the money we had to pay to get in ($6/person)!




Friday came very early in the morning for us. We were taking the first boat at 7:30 am to Catalina, and it departed from Dana Point, about an hour north of us. This was another "small" city, but much better that Julian in that there was actually things to do there! Because we're spoiled by our San Diego beaches, the beaches on Catalina didn't do much for us, but we loved exploring the city! We wish we would have had more time to wander around and explore. We took a tour of The Casino which is a performing arts center. It was named The Casino because the definition for Casino is "A social gathering place." There was a large theater and also a large ballroom that we got to see. If anybody had pictures from this day, feel free to send them my way, I don't have any :(

My parents stayed in San Clemente for a couple more days to spend more time with Elise's family before heading home. We had a wonderful time with them and are so glad they could come! Unfortunately we didn't get many pictures with them, but we made many memories!