We just got home from a delightful week at our favorite beach. We had a wonderful time vegetating. We did go to the San Diego Temple for a session. We attended Sacrament Meeting.
We drove to Laguna Beach to visit a delightful bakery and to buy treats. YUM!!!
We walked on the Pier
, and on the Beach and
watched the sunset every evening.
With it being wintertime the sky was clear and we had fantastic views of
Catalina Island.
We did have a couple of showers one day but the rest of the time the sun shone and we basked in 55 degrees. Well, there was a chill breeze off the ocean but that's ok.
Our thoughts turned to the first time we visited California. it was President's Day 1968. We went with my brother Joe and his wife. We left Utah in driving rain and arrived in Riverside in glorious sunshine. We went to visit with my younger brother Bryan and his wife. As we drove we entered San Bernadino National Forest and I am looking for the forests like we have in Utah. Not in this part of the desert. All we could see were Joshua trees and they were few and far between.
We did stop in Las Vegas at 2am . The Strip stopped at the Stardust.
We visited Disneyland but it was evening and it was closed, but we were able to ride the Monorail and circle the Park which just whet our appetites for more.
This was the first time we visited San Clemente and our fate was sealed. Alan often talks about swimming and body-surfing in February.
We ate at a "fancy" resturant in Newport Beach called the Reuben E. Lee. (Therein lies another whole story) with 5 children at home we didn't do much "eating out".
Oh, and in talking about the children, we had "farmed" them out with friends back in Utah. :o)
Later in 1968 we took the children to California. There is another whole Blog on that trip.
We'll be back. That's a promise.
6 comments:
Next time, take me with you!
So glad you got to take a vacation! We loved it there the one time we got to go with the family... :)
I love the pictures! But... what is wrong with your camera in the first few? I saw some of those bakery items w/me and Lilian's name on them. The pictures of you and dad alone... where exactly are you guys? In all the years we've been going we're rarely seen Catalina b/c of fog, seamist, whatever it is out there on t'ocean... awesomne that you got a picture of it. BTW I left some stuff in the back of your truck.
I'm glad you had a great time Mom. You deserved it. You have to tell me how to get to the place where you bought all those treats so when we go to San Clemente in September I can go "shopping" and indulging :-)
I remember the friends you "farmed" me out to in 1968. I won't say their name here, but I'll tell you I sure didn't like it.
But I'm glad YOU had a good time though. :)
Don't worry they weren't mean to me.
I sort of enjoyed the "farming out" part. But maybe Alan got stuck with the cupboard under the stairs. Loved the pictures and the memories they brought back. Including the fact that just last August we were in San Clemente and on Catalina.
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