35th Anniversary in San Diego

Before I got sick, we decided to spend our 35th anniversary at the Hotel del Coronado. It's our favorite hotel! Right on the best beach in the world. The book "Bid Time Return" was set there, which was made into the movie "Somewhere in Time." Unfortunately, they filmed the movie in Chicago instead of at the Hotel del Coronado, and it was the worse for it, in my opinion.

We love San Diego! We had a great time going to Seaport Village, Fresh Produce store in La Jolla, Horton Plaza (where we saw Breaking Dawn, Part one). Rich spoiled me with gifts of new clothing (my favorite) and we had some delicious meals - with Rich waiting patiently for me to finish each meal - I'm so slow at eating now! We enjoyed having a perfect view of the ocean from our hotel room.

the poinsettia tree at Seaport Village

I love the clouds in San Diego

the view from our bed!

Hotel del Coronado

We had visitors on our balcony, there's two birds there!

the tree in the lobby

the beautiful Christmas decorations

Christmas lights on Hotel del Coronado

this is the new dolphin arena at Seaworld

so many beautiful sunsets, from our room!

seagull on our balcony

our bathroom

our perfect hotel room

clouds from our balcony

our picture at Seaworld

balcony view

I love the restroom doors at the San Diego Airport

Disney Cruise

When I was diagnosed with ALS the nurse at the ALS clinic suggested that if we wanted to do any traveling we should do it sooner rather than later. Rich wondered if I wanted to go to the Holy Land, a dream of his, but not mine. He suggested Rome, which has been a dream of mine. But then he suggested that we take the whole family on a Disney cruise and that felt perfect. I was thinking that we would take everyone on a Disney cruise for our fortieth anniversary, so we just did it 5 years early.

It was a great vacation making memories together. And now comes the picture overload:

Andrew in the port hole

Look at those blues! I love it!

Our Disney cruise ship from the tender

the children playing in the ocean with the cruise ship in the background

We ate at a little restaurant in Cabo San Lucas called "the office," it was covered with umbrellas and we had our feet in the sand at the same time.

Connor's food in a ship box

Sophie's food

The food was so yummy under the blue umbrellas!

I love this picture of Abby and Papa holding hands!

Cabo San Lucas and look at those clouds!

We ate guacamole from the avocados in this tree, in the rainforest of Puerto Vallarta

Puerto Vallarta

Dance party on the ship with the Hammers!

Our formal night

The gkiddies with Daffy Duck

Sophie with Snow White

Silly Abby and Andrew, with Jenny taking a shot in the background

Andrew in a Peter Pan napkin hat

The character breakfast with Pluto

Mickey with Laura and Nanajan

Mickey with the Founder of our Cruise

Mickey with G &G