Catalina Island

Not only was this trip to get away, see the ocean, and visit family, it was also to celebrate our four year wedding anniversary!  We did this by spending a few days at Catalina Island.  Just a warning:  you will probably see an almost ridiculous amount of couple pics from our trip.  We got a great deal on the ferry trip there and back and two nights in a hotel, total it was only about $30 more than just the ferry price.

Amazingly we saw a whole pod of dolphins!  Everyone guessed about 1oo!  It was a dream come true!  The only thing that could've made it even better is if the captain slowed down so we could admire them for a little longer.

I must admit, the weather was a tad bit disappointing.  For some silly reason I had planned on tropical weather.  It would've been a little closer to that if we had stayed in Colorado since it was nicer there than on Catalina.  We stayed in a quaint LITTLE hotel and thought it had a full kitchen because we planned on buying food rather than eating out.  But we had to get creative as we realized it had no oven or microwave after buying some food back to cook.

View of part of Avalon at sunset.  The weather was the nicest on our first day there.

We went for a nice exploration hike around the island and found a cute little park.

It was cool and foggy our second day there so we cancelled our plan to kayak for the day.  Instead we walked two miles up a hill on a "locals only" road to a residential area.  

They had a nice little beach called "Hamilton Cove."  We explored and read for a little while overlooking the beautiful ocean.  I made it down a little rocky section to the water but after getting back up I cut my foot which somewhat limited our activities for the rest of the day.

Because of the weather and being somewhat limited as to what we could do since we didn't want to spend $45 an hour to rent a golf cart and I didn't have hiking shoes, Chris was patient enough to go shopping with me.  We found some really cute things and great deals!

Our last day was the coolest and foggiest.  We were going to try to walk around to the south side of the island but it was closed to pedestrians because of falling rocks.  We had wished you could enter at your own risk.