Wednesday, November 17, 2010

San Diego

After our trip to Arizona for Spring Training back in March, we had another trip planned to San Diego to attend the wedding of my previous boss. Since it fell on one of our 3 day weekends we decided to spend the whole weekend down there. We drove down there on Friday and decided to hit up the zoo after checking into our hotel. Lance and I both hadn't been to the zoo in at least 10+ years so we were both excited to check it out. We were a little bummed that the polar bear exhibit didn't open for another week, but we still had a great time checking out all the other animals. Here are some of the pictures from our day at the zoo.






Rally monkeys!!
Don't wake a sleeping tiger!The San Diego Zoo has a ride that is just like the old Disneyland ride the sky buckets! My sisters and I went to Disneyland and rode the buckets on the last day before they closed the ride forever. We loved the buckets! Needless to say, when I got to the zoo and discovered they had a ride that was just like Disney's buckets I was super excited! The only thing it was missing was traveling through the Matterhorn!




We both had such a great time at the zoo. We can't wait to go back. We had absolutely perfect weather and since it was a Friday there weren't a bazillion kiddos. We both worked at Disneyland for years and years so we have no desire to go to places that are hot with a bazillion kids!



Love,
Suzanne

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Kayaking Trip

6 months between blog updates huh. Yikes! Well at least I wasn't completely MIA since I was doing a little blogging here and there on Rachel's site. I have a whole bunch of posts to get caught up on, so let's get started.

When I finished my last blog update back in May, we were leaving the Grand Canyon heading to Vegas to go kayaking. We had a GREAT time kayaking. It was so much fun and I highly recommend the tour group we used to go on the tour with. I have never been to the Hoover Dam either so seeing that was amazing as well. Keep in mind as you read this post, it may be November now, but we actually took this trip over Memorial Day back in May.




The picture above is the new bridge they are building to take you over the Hoover Dam instead of through it. It's supposed to cut down on the time it takes to get from the Arizona side to the Nevada side. I'm glad I was able to drive through the old way before they opened this bridge. Since these pictures were taken 6 months ago, I think this bridge is now open!

This is a cave we got to go hike in. It was extremely hot in there. We all had to carry flashlights because it was very dark as we continued back. The pictures we took in the back of the cave didn't come out since the camera kept fogging up.
We saw some amazingly beautiful sites on this tour. The rocks, the water, it was all totally awesome!
The day we picked to go kayaking was the most perfect day ever. The weather was perfect and we didn't have any wind.

The water was like glass! Thank goodness because we had to kayak 16 miles from start to finish, so if we would have had a lot of wind, it would have made the trip a little tougher than we wanted it to be!
This is the emerald cave. It's in commercials, and print ads and was one of the coolest parts of the tour. There is something about where the cave is positioned, and the position of the sun, it makes the water green!So so so beautiful!

This is definitely a bridge I wouldn't want to walk on! Our guide said this bridge was built back when the Hoover Dam was being built and this is how the workers got from one point to the other......no thank you!
Lance had the camera almost the whole 16 miles so when I finally was able to steal it from him I took a picture of him! There he goes leaving me in the dust. I think it was pay back for paddling ahead of him the whole time. You sure do paddle a lot faster when you don't have a camera in your hands! :)

We had a great experience kayaking on the Colorado. This sure was an awesome first anniversary. Between the Grand Canyon and kayaking the Colorado, I couldn't have asked for a better vacation!

Love,
Suzanne