Vacation

Greg and I made a deal a long time ago for vacations. Every other year we would go on a big trip and every other year we would go on a smaller trip. Vacations to visit family don't count unless the vacation spot itself is really cool. Translation: every other year we would spend a lot of money and go somewhere really cool with just us and kids as they come along. Less than a year after we got married, we bought a membership to a travel club where we get all sorts of cool discounts to facilitate our agreement. Of course, the entire agreement will probably go out the window when we have kids, but it's working for now. We got married in 2005, and didn't ever have money to really go on a vacation until 2007. In February 2007, we went to Ixtapa, Mexico and had so much fun. We really just laid on the beach all day, but it was perfect. That was our big trip. So, this year we agreed we would go somewhere closer. Neither of us have ever been to the Grand Canyon, and I have never been to Southern Utah's National Parks, so we started planning a trip to drive around Southern Utah/Colorado. Then, a co-worker told me that JetBlue had a deal that you could fly from Salt Lake to San Diego for $100 round trip, taxes included. Our plans morphed within a day to a trip to San Diego. Then, we found a condo with our travel club in Sunset Beach, CA. Thus our trip to California for a week was planned. We left on Thursday, October 30 and returned on Thursday, November 6. Since we don't have kids, we were able to travel at a much faster pace and saw so much that I will post a separate post for every 1-2 days. Enjoy.