There's No Place Like Home!

There is a LOT of good Mexican food in California. Mexican is typically the first place we pick if we're going out to eat. Everyone has their taco shop. I just wanted to show you a picture of my all-time, 5 year standing favorite meal at any Mexican place. This is the Carne Asada Nachos from Santana's in PB. The picture may not look amazing, but it's just my favorite-est-est meat, pico, guac and cilantro meal! I highly recommend this place (also called Fresh MXN).

We've been in San Diego about a week now. It's been great to be back where we have so many great memories, family and friends!

If you saw Peter's blog (I think a lot of our readers are shared), you know that I caught some 24-hour bug. I'm mountains better now, but Tuesday night - Wednesday night was plain ugly. I'm not sure how the flu inspired it, but I did three puzzles in 24 hours and watched The Happiest Millionaire. In that time, I saw what was in my inner-self and I saw what my inner-self likes to do when I'm hurting. Puzzles and classic old Disney Musicals.

Happy Holiday Home

We'll be away from Tucson for Christmas, enjoying holiday-family-play-eat-music-cheer time. We don't get to enjoy our tree for long, but we love when it's up!

This is our new apartment. I love that we inherited the light green walls. I like the way it makes the tree pop against the fireplace.

Family Pictures

We got these pictures taken right before we left Pacific Beach last summer. We felt sorta silly, like they were engagement photos again, but I'm glad we did it. We LOVED living a mile from the beach and all these places are places that were really important to us for those 2 years.

Oh, the places you'll SLEEP

I left for my big trip three weeks ago today. In reflecting on the trip - I wanted to put down in writing where I've slept since then...

1 night on a plane to London
1 night in Qatar
3 nights on a spare bed in Dubai
1 night in different bed in Dubai
3 nights in Tiff's spare bed in Qatar
1 night on a plane back to London
1 night at my mom's new house
3 nights with my mom in a Marriott in Palm Springs
3 nights with Peter in the same bed at the Marriott
1 night on a pull-out bed/couch with lots of kids on the floor
1 night in a different bed in the Marriott, alone finally
2 nights in our bed in Tucson

So- there it is. This is probably more for me to remember and enjoy than for your enjoyment, but it's 11 beds in 21 nights. Seems like I'm in my early 20's again... I was always crashing and staying at friend's places. (right, Tash?)

Pictures of my to trip to Dubai, Qatar and London

I'm back in Tucson after 3 great weeks out and about this planet!!

I had a fabulous time, and it was a perfect trip to the Middle East!

I uploaded my photos to Facebook from my trip. I think it would be too much to post that many photos to my blog-ito, so I'll attach the links for the people that don't have FB (ahem, Anne), so you can see them.


Dubai



Qatar


London

Thirtieth Birthday Trip!!

My 30th birthday is this week and it's been on my mind for months. It could be said I'm going through a "Third-of-Life-Crisis." So, I'm doing something about it, I'm going to Dubai and Qatar in 2 weeks and I'm so excited!! To me, and to people that knew me in my early 20's, this is the perfect trip for me.

My longtime girlfriend, Tiffani Clark Bates (check out the MTC below) lives out there for the last few years with her husband and darling children and has always offered for us to come for a visit. Unfortunately, Peter is just so busy with school and I'm just not busy with anything else. I wish he could come, he wishes he could come, but he gets that I need to do this trip (and it gets him off the hook for a big birthday gift). :)


QATAR SKYLINE

DUBAI SKYLINE

DUBAI'S PALM ISLAND

Fabulous old pictures of Hermana Clark and Siostra Romney
Sep 2003