Thanksgiving & Catalina

For Thanksgiving Brian and I went to California to visit Brian's siblings and their families. We drove down Saturday and stayed at Jenna's house for a few days. It was fun hanging out with the kids and not having homework or studying to do.


On Monday we took a 1 hour boat ride to Catalina Island to go Scuba diving. We got there and dropped off our stuff at the hotel. Then we found some food to eat then off to Scuba diving. There is a dive park on the island that is protected from boats or fishing so there is a lot of fish and it was really cool to see something like that for the first time. I have only been diving in Utah's lakes. Here are a few pictures we got from the 4 times we went diving over the two days we were there. I just realized that these pictures of us have no fish in them, we saw tons I promise!


So we stayed at Catalina for 2 days because we found this good deal online that was $80 per person for the round trip boat ride, taxi to and from the hotel, hotel room for 1 night, and a tour of some sort. It was a really good deal because the boat is usually $60 by itself

On tuesday we went to a bus tour along the island's ridge so we got to see everything from up high. We saw some buffalo, mountains, and there was an airport at the end. The roads were very small and windy, it was really fun.

For dinner Tuesday we went to a seafood restaurant on the waterfront. Their crab was so good and Brian even ate some fish & chips.

So in the end we had a really fun time and Scuba diving was like nothing I have ever experienced before.

We stayed at Rees' house Wednesday to Saturday and Thanksgiving was fun, there were 12 adults and 12 kids so it was not formal at all, we had paper plates and just randomly ate anywhere we could find a seat. It was great.

We went to the $2 zoo on Friday with the family and that was fun. Brian and I also went to Target Friday morning to buy a Christmas present for Brett & Becky. It wasn't very busy at 9am and we ended up getting something that wasn't even on sale. Oh well.

Saturday we drove home and at about 6pm we ran into some snow in Cedar City. We tried driving through it for about an hour or so then decided to stop in Parowan for the night and were lucky we got a room at the only hotel in town that filled up fast. We got a pizza and watched Lost on Netflix online. It was fun but then we didn't get home until Sunday afternoon, at least Brian got out of giving a lesson at church.

So our trip to California was very fun, I liked the Scuba diving a lot and just not having to do school for a while. It was great.