Catalina

Catalina Island!
This trip we did right before I began Law School - over a year ago! We left early in the morning and took the boat over. It was fun, a little cold, but very fun. There were pods of Dolphins that we saw while on the boat over, but I'm glad that it was only an hour because I thought that I was going to toss my cookies... In fact, we got there so early the shops were not even open yet! We ended up eating the breakfast that we had brought on some random park bench because nothing was open...

We snorkeled in the afternoon and hung out at "lover's cove." Not sure why they call it Lover's Cove becase there isn't really any place to sit down... It is all rocks, and no beach. It was a nice little cove and there were a ton of big fish. The only problem was that it was cold. We didn't bring wet suits, so we only lasted as long as our bodies stayed warm. Surprisingly, Alison wasn't as cold as Ryan was!

Avalon is the main town there, and it is quite small. We walked the entire thing several times throughout the day. Alison is here standing at the center of town... Exciting. We couldn't really find anywhere to sit or relax on the extemely small man made beach, so we went to a hotel. There was this hotel that had a nice grassy area with lounge chairs so we went in, grabbed a lounge chair, read our books and relaxed. It was great! We both fell asleep and it was nice.


Before we went our on trip we scheduled a helicopter ride home. We were so excited. The only problem was that we were tired and wanted to go home before our scheduled helicopter trip... So we tried to change the time we could go and got to leave about 30 minutes earlier. We were so excited! It was AMAZING! We video taped the whole thing, and then the video camera was stoeln... No more video... But, we will always remember the way it felt and the exciting 10 minute ride. It was so cool! We can't wait to do it again... when we save up our money... It was a pricey 10 minute ride, but totally worth it!