Updates!

So I haven't updated our blog in a while, so I'm just going to stuff everything into one big post!

To start off, I just read this book

It is seriously amazing. It is mostly fiction, but it has a lot of history in it too. It is the best book I have read in a long time, and it has made my list of top five favorite books. Anyone who has some free time should definitely read it! It's about a book club, so it would be a perfect book for a book club!

For Christmas break, we spent a few weeks in California with my family

On New Year's Eve day, we went to an island called Catalina which is about an hour off the coast of Laguna. For you runners, there is an annual triathlon held there.

This was our boat as we were coming into Long Beach

Sunset as we were getting off the boat

Us on the boat on the way over there. It was really windy, hence the hair

On the boat again

That's the island behind us. On the way there, we saw a couple of whales (which is really rare, no one ever sees them anymore). I also saw shark, but no one else saw it, so they didn't believe me. It was really there, I swear.

On the way back, we saw hundreds and hundreds of Porpoises. We just crossed their path while they were migrating or something, and it was amazing. They were everywhere.

It was only my parents, Chance and I, and Jeremy who went to Catalina. Everyone else was gone.

We also went to the Aquarium after we got back from Catalina.

Jeremy and Chance had a styrofoam sword fight in the middle of Toy-R-Us. MY husband is so mature :)

Us on the beach

This is the beach in Three Arch (where my family lives).

Chance took this picture on Balboa Island, which is a manmade island right off of Newport Beach, He thought the second 7/09 was really funny.

We went to the island for a few hours, played some games and walked around. It was fun!

I'm running out of time before class, so the next post will be our pictures from the cruise!