My family visited!

Wow, I didn't realize I hadn't posted since the beginning of August. Seems like it can't be right. . . Well anyway, this is long overdue! My house is in much better order now, and I've had requests for pics on the blog, so I'll try to get to that this weekend.

Otherwise, not too much has been going on. There was a fun trip to a farmers market in San Diego's Little Italy district called the Mercato with some girls from church, but I need to get some photos from one the ladies I went with. The post just can't do without. :) hopefully you will all soon see why!

Other than that, I haven't really done much up until last weekend. Truth be told, I was starting to get pretty homesick and missing everyone pretty badly. So somehow, instead of trying to go and hang out with some of the new people I've been meeting, I just ended up staying home and drowning my sorrows watching Downton Abbey (2nd season) and reading Mansfield Park, the last long Jane Austen novel I had left to read. Probably would have been more helpful for morale to hang out with people. At least it would have given me something to report here, besides TV and reading. Oh well.

I made up for it all when my family (dad, mom, Nick and my aunt Glenna) all came for a visit! We did a lot of fun things and ate a lot of good food, and I got all the hugs I've been missing. So that should hold me over til my next visitor!

Here are some pics of the fun things we did! We went on a trolley tour of the city that started in the Olde Towne area and goes by 9 or so different stops. We got off at Seaport Village, the Gaslamp district, and Coronado Island!  The pics on the left are from Coronado - the top one is the Hotel del Coronado, this famous huge (and expensive) hotel, and then bottom is a view of the San Diego downtown skyline from the Coronado Bridge. Middle is the Gaslamp district sign. We also saw one the best sunsets over the La Jolla Cove that I've seen since I've been in California while the family was here. The grapes are from a winery we visited in Temecula when we went and visited a cousin of my dads, and the bottom right is my cinnamon french toast with blueberry paste decorations that we had for breakfast one day. So yummy!

We also visited Point Loma where there is the Cabrillo National Monument. It also afforded great city views, and had some great rocky coastline with tidepools where we found the little crab (if you can see him - upper right)! The statue is a statue of Juan Cabrillo, who was the first European to land in that area.

We had a great time, but sadly, I did not manage to get a picture of us all to prove that I really did have visitors. The best I have is this picture of Nick on the rocks at Cabrillo Ntl. Mon., looking out into the ocean, perhaps pondering the vastness of the Pacific, or how much he wants to move to California to be with his favorite sister, or something of the sort!