Showing posts with label vacation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vacation. Show all posts

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Ohhhhh in Mexico...

All of the photos in this post are courtesy of Lori (except the last three).  She is an awesome photographer, so I'm grateful she is so willing to share.  These next two photos were taken from the top floor of our condo building.  I love the color of the ocean.

In the bottom right hand corner of this picture, you can see the boys playing in the sand.

The building below is our condo.  We loved being right on the beach.

This was on the way to Ensenada.

Ensenada is about an hour south of Rosarito.  It is a cruise-ship port town, so it was nice and touristy.  This woman was selling her wares--I love this picture!

Thug life.





It was so fun to be serenaded while we ate dinner.

On our last night we had a fire on the beach and set off some Mexican fireworks to celebrate the new year.  Things got way more exciting than we bargained for when a firework exploded in Brandon's hand.

We got to visit this place...

...and we feel so grateful that no one else was burned, and it was only a hand, not a face, and that the burns did not go through all the skin layers, so nothing more than pain killers and burn cream were needed.

Ouchy!


Thankfully, it's all healed, now.  Okay, let's end this post with something nice...

Ahhh, that's better.

Monday, January 25, 2016

Feliz Navidad

(We weren't actually in Mexico for Christmas, but "Feliz Año Nuevo" just doesn't have the same ring as "Feliz Navidad," hence the misleading title.)

We drove to Rosarito, Mexico a couple of days after Christmas and stayed for about a week.  Our condo was right on a very secluded (almost completely empty) beach.


Rosarito is a town on the coast, a little south of Tijuana.  It was the boys' first time experiencing another country.

Even though the water temps were not all that warm (guessing high 50's, low 60's) and the air temps were in the mid 60's most of the week, it felt so awesome after leaving the single digits in Utah (the car thermometer actually read -5 as we were driving through Mona, Utah).  We spent a lot of time on the beach and playing in the surf.  

After Lake Tahoe, cold water temperatures are no problem.  Getting in can be hard, but you get numb after about 5 minutes, and then it's all good.




The Silly Grandma came with us...

...and Aunt Lori!








Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Visiting

 We were able to visit a lot of friends and family on our Spring Break vacation.


















It was so great to see everyone again!

Monday, June 10, 2013

More Very Fine Art

Have you ever built something out of legos?  This guy sure has.



It's shocking!



The artist, Nathan Sawaya (self portrait pictured above), had an exhibit of his art at the Kimball Art Center in Park City while we were visiting so we went to see.



All of his art was made entirely out of legos.  All of the legos that he uses are purchased in sets from the store, the same as most people buy legos.



The thought of creating "art" out of legos was novel to me.  We thought it was very cool.





The "pop-up" book was the favorite of most of the boys.























The one pictured below was my favorite and also Onion Ring's.








Buttermilk Sky deeply contemplated the experience.