So long sweet summer

I am depressed.  I hate when summer is over.  I love the summer season so much, but  it always seems to fly by so fast, and I am left thinking that, once again, I didn’t take advantage of it. 

Honestly, we only went to the beach three times!  How sad is that.  When I was growing up there wasn’t a Saturday we didn’t spend at the beach in the summer.  Now I only manage to make it once a month! Granted, we do often take advantage of our close proximity by running and riding bikes on the beach, but just laying out, soaking up the sun and having a picnic, just didn’t happen. 

Adam and I also did a little hike in Peter’s Canyon at the beginning of summer, and I thought, oh, wouldn’t it be nice if we tried a new hike at least once a month in our surrounding areas?  Yeah well… that didn’t happen either.  That was the only hike in the OC we did at all... perhaps hiking in the spring is the better season to do that anyway, right? 

We did manage to have some fun this summer.  Adam spent much of the summer working in Seattle, so for Father’s Day weekend his whole family went up there and we enjoyed a little get away together.  

Hiking with the Blaesser Family

Giants vs Mariners game, I am pretty sure there were more Giants fans in the stands than Mariners fans

View from Kerry Park

Chihuly Garden and Glass Exhibit

Unfortunately that was also the weekend my sister Julie and her family came down to visit, but I got back in time to see them for a couple days, one of which we spent at Knott’s together.  It’s always fun to have family come visit.  

Considering I spent 12 days of July in Viet Nam, that’s all I really remember from that month.  What a great experience that was.

In August we took our annual trip up to Huntington Lake in the Sierra’s and enjoyed a weekend of fishing, eating, sleeping, game playing and relaxing.  It was so relaxing that I didn’t bother to ever get my camera out except for one time.   But then again I could put pictures of from the prior years and you wouldn’t know the difference, it looks the same every year. 

I did take one picture, it started pouring rain while we were out fishing, so I had to snap this shot of the men 's dedication to fishing.

We also celebrated Adam’s 30^th birthday in August.   I was pretty lame as far as a celebration goes for him.  Adam is quite possibly the hardest person to buy gifts for on the planet.  He never wants anything, except for the occasional tool, but I decided to try something new.  Neither of us had seen a Cirque du Soleil show before, so I got us tickets to Iris in LA and we enjoyed the amazing acrobatics and seemingly impossible bending bodies.  We took in a little of Hollywood as well, which, as many of you know, is kind of a dump, but it’s a fascinating place to people watch. 

Hollywood sign trying to peak through the lovely LA smog

So now we’re onto Fall…. I tried to enjoy some of the fall festivities last year, and perhaps will try to figure out what everyone loves so much about it again,  but honestly if we could just fast forward to December that would be fine with me. I am missing summer already.