Spring Break in Laguna

Over Spring Break week Ryan and I got to leave our children with the grandparents and take a trip to California! Our first stop was a night aboard the RMS Queen Mary. 

This is what the ship looked like when we arrived late the first night. The Queen Mary used to be quite the fancy way to travel abroad but it is now dry docked in Long Beach and the once famous first class cabins and suites have been turned into a hotel. Much of the boat is still preserved and historically accurate, although there are obviously some modern accommodations. 

After getting checked in we joined our friends at Sir Winston's restaruant aboard the ship. We were a bit jet lagged and to us it was like 11 o'clock at night but that didn't stop us from enjoying this delicious steak dinner. I can honestly say that I've never eaten that much steak, nor steak that late at night, but it was worth it!

Much of the original 2nd and 3rd class areas have been turned into galleries. I liked this look of how the Titanic would look if cut in half. It had tiny miniature pieces and everything was labeled so you could see where everything would have been located. 

The next morning we walked all around the ship on our own, took a guided tour, and visited the touring Princess Diana exhibit on board.

Later that afternoon we finally got to put our toes in the Pacific! We stopped for lunch at Huntington beach, and as we arrived a crazy fog was over the whole area. You couldn't even see the water from the edge of the sand.

Then we traveled on to Laguna Beach where we stayed at a Mariott Resort.  I enjoyed Laguna a lot, and it reminded me of visiting Vancouver, Canada, with the way the city is built up.

 I don't know why this photo is fuzzy, but the essence of it is that shirt. Wowzers. One afternoon we shopped around and we made our purchases at the Laguna Thrift shop. I got an awesome new purse and Ryan snagged this shirt. He doesn't look like a tourist dad at all. Not one bit.

 At the resort before heading out to dinner on our last night in California. The resort had so much to offer, I wish we had planned more time to just lounge around! It was actually pretty chilly most of the time so we didn't even enjoy the pool as much as I would have thought. Guess we will have to make a trip back to enjoy it all :)

Our travel buddies! We had a wonderful time enjoying California with our friends, the Glasers. 

My two great loves - Ryan and the beach. I'm already longing to go back to the shores!