Summer/Fall 2013

Over the past few months, we've been really enjoying our San Diego life. With the exception of a few mini-trips to Orange County and LA, we've been mostly spending our time taking advantage of the beach, surf, events and restaurants walking/biking distance from our house. Late summer/early fall is our favorite time at home when the tourist crowds thin out and the weather is better than ever. This is why we like to save our traveling for other times in the year.

Here are few of the things we've been up to:

Stand Up Paddling - With the recent addition of a baby bump, this has been an even more frequent activity.

Mike, Tanner and Dad.

Trying out stand up paddle pilates. Yes, it was hard!

Tanner and Chelsea SUPing in San Clemente

Surf Competitions - In Oceanside, there are a lot of surf competitions but one of my favorites is the SuperGirl Pro. It's the largest female pro surf competition in the world!

Congrats to winner Malia Manuel

Kayaking

La Jolla Sea Caves

Mom and Chelsea

Camping

Camping trip at Point Mugu Beach.

Surfing

Surfing in Malibu. Chelsea is 13 weeks pregnant here, so hopefully the baby had fun surfing too.

Mike surfing South Oceanside

Spending time with family

Night out with the Denning Grandparents at the Padres Game

Dinner at the Lightouse Grill in Oceanside

Ian (Chelsea's brother) & Jolina's wedding

Most Southern California residents will agree that September and October are the best months to be here! Enjoy the rest of your fall season. :)

Oceanside Harbor

Kayaking the La Jolla Sea Caves

President’s Day weekend in California was absolute perfection for February! It was 80 degrees at the beach and beautiful clear skies. We took advantage of the gorgeous weekend to use our awesome Christmas present given to us by Cameron and Rachael Denning; a kayak tour through the La Jolla Sea Caves. We would recommend everyone to check out this beautiful part of San Diego!

The take-off point is from the La Jolla Shores beach where there are tons of kayaks available to rent right on the beach. We did a tour, so the downside was being in a big group of several people that had no idea how to kayak so kept colliding with us and somehow someone even capsized on this very flat day in the ocean and we had to wait for them. Everything else was great! The tour leaders gave us tons of interesting local facts about the community and the marine life and the scenery was some of the prettiest you’ll find in California. 

This part of La Jolla is considered a marine reserve so is very well protected by the community. There are a few caves that are really beautiful. It was a unique experience kayaking right up to them and within a few feet of sea lions. We especially enjoyed the history of La Jolla and some of the landmarks and important geological formations within the area.

Yes, they make you wear helmets and vests

Our friends Mark and Britt came along

Our kayak group