J+D

Dates 35, 36, & 37

I'm going to count our little weekend adventures as three dates since we had a little patch during the summer when we couldn't get out together.

I hope that's okay...

Our trip was a busy trip, to say the least--but so super fun!

Thursday evening we flew to LA where my brother picked us up and took us to his lovely family (and abode). After staying up a bit too late laughing, munching, and playing with Ike and Toe, we hit the sac (aka air mattress) and planned to get up around 5:30 to hit the road in the BUG---the car we were to bring home to Utah for mi madre.

Friday morning, as planned, we were on the road super early to drive up north to San Francisco.

We got there around lunch time, so we had some of the Wharf's famous Clam Chowder in sour dough bread bowls as we walked around the pier....

...before hopping on a ferry and taking a site seeing cruise around the bay (this is Alcatraz and my hot hubby)

And this is the Golden Gate Bridge--you can see my tour headphones

(we got to see some dolphins, too!!!)

and

then we watched some hilarious street performers and visited the sea lions

And then we ate some ice cream and chocolate at Guiradelli Square before taking a trolley

up to China Town

before we drove down Lumbard Street.........

And by that time we were thinking we'd better get to our hotel so that we could get the kids down.....

But wait, we didn't have any kids with us....

So we drove over the Golden Gate Bridge into Sausalito and had a fabulous dinner together.

And then we were pooped so we (I) zonked on the bed only to wake up at 3 am and find that I hadn't changed into my jammies. We were just that tired.

But we slept in and headed up to the Muir Woods in Marin County and

spent the morning hiking in the gorgeous Redwoods

and when we were finished there, we drove into Sausalito and walked all around the docks looking, admiring over, and wishing we had a sailboat of our own until it was time to go meet up with....

....some of our dear friends who have recently moved to the Bay Area, The Corotans!

We had a lovely lunch/dinner with them, had a quick photoshoot, and then off we went....

...back in the car on another road trip up to Reno where we had a super late meal and a very fast snooze before we got up early again to drive back home to Utah.

Phewwwwwwwwww.

It was incredibly FAST and incredibly FUN

(Dustin and I are great road trippers together...we love the same music, we laugh a ton, have a ton to talk about, can joke around and be dorks in the privacy of our own little space, and just have a great time driving)

And not too surprisingly, we missed our kiddos a TON.

We were so glad we went, so glad we have a great relationship to make it a fabulous weekend without any blips, and a whole gaggle of family members to take great care of our babies at home while we were away!!!

Yay for love!

Yay for a lovely trip!