Big Bear Girls Trip

 

In September of last year Olive and I went on a girls trip to Big Bear. We stayed at this cute airbnb called "Kitschy Cabin" with a few friends. It was nice to get out of Los Angeles because everything was shut down at that point. Looking back - we actually did some pretty fun things at the height of Covid.

Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe, August 2020

Los Alamos Girls Trip

In July my friend Amanda convinced me to take a girls trip in Los Alamos for a night. We started our adventure in Santa Barbara at a cute little taco place called La Super-Rica Taqueria. Olive still talks about how good the tacos were! Next we stopped in Los Olivos to visit my friend Ashkans winery. Finally we settled at the Skyview Los Alamos and layed by the pool all day. We had dinner at the hotel (I was completely tipsy from all day drinking) and then back to Los Angeles in the morning. It was the perfect little getaway.

Newport Beach Take 2

 

Bay Island, July 2020

Yosemite

 

Over the summer we went to Yosemite with my family. My stepdad and I had a bet that I couldn't hike Yosemite Falls without complaining. 25,656 steps, 11.7 miles, and 134 floors later - I got a pair of high heels.  There was no way in hell that I was going to complain. It was a looooooooooong day - but I was pretty proud of myself for getting through it!

Mexico Day 4 & 5

On our last days in Mexico we pretty much spent the majority of our time at the beach and the pool. I'm pretty sure I had one too many cocktails at the pool bar. We ate homemade ice cream, made more crafts, and had dinner at the Thai and Italian restaurants. There weren't a ton of pics to post so I'm just going to use my favorite one from our entire trip.

Mexico Day 2

Our second day in Mexico was fun...although there were a few tears from everyone including me! You know when you've been looking forward to something for so long....and then something happens that just ruins everything? Well...that happened on more than one occasion for me. From the kids fighting to no one wanting to go on any excursions. To not being able to get into the one restaurant that I was dying to try to not being able to go into the ocean. Etc etc etc. The hotel did have a lot of cool features though. There was a homemade ice cream shop, nightly shows and live music, loads of good restaurants and a gorgeous beach.

See what I told you about the tears. This was one of a handful of times that Buster was not happy. It's hard to be 6 sometimes!! The food was really good. I had these fish tacos a few times on the beach while we were there. 

At the pool you could buy inflatable toys - so of course the kids had to have one! I secretly wanted one too. They also had this really fun spot where you could make crafts. Honestly - it was so fun we did it almost every day. And the finished pieces were pretty amazing. The guys running the crafts added a lot of details that made them look like ceramics sold at the gift shop!

Dinner was always hit or miss. Andrew and I loved it because everything was included.....but sometimes it was hard with the kids. Their palates aren't quite as refined as ours.