Hanging Poolside

When the temperature soars into the hundreds, it's so, so nice to head out to Corona and go swimming. This weekend it was hot and I mean Hot with a capital H!

Ahhhh... the water was so nice - it was almost like Heaven on earth!

Like father...

Like son.

Swim, Swim, Little Fish

Dillon has been taking swim lessons for the last couple of months. At first he wouldn't stay in the pool - he would just climb out whenever he wanted, but now he loves it and listens and does what he is supposed to do and stays in the water. He is so stinking tan, I'm totally jealous. After every lesson he runs to me with a big smile on his face - I love it!

Tutti Frutti

Nothing is better on a hot day than some frozen yogurt for dessert. Our current favorite place to go is Tutti Frutti. Jason likes it because they have fruit flavored yogurt, Dillon likes it because he gets to pull all the knobs - it's a self serve place, and I like it because I can pile on all the yummy toppings my heart desires.

Solana Beach

Nothing better than walking barefoot, hand-in-hand with my sweetie along a near-empty beach

Del Mar Fair and Kelly Clarkson!

Way back in March, Jason and I discovered that Kelly Clarkson was touring and we were excited to see that she was playing semi-close. She was playing the Del Mar fair which is about two hours away. Upon our discovery, we quickly hopped onto the Ticketmaster website and scored ourselves tickets in the eleventh row! It just sucked that we had to wait so long to see her.

Our tickets included parking (and we got to park like twenty feet from the front gate of the fair),fair admission and dinner. The dinner was delicious. There were several choices but we both picked the fillet with asparagus and blue mashed potatoes. We were a little weirded out by the fact that the potatoes were blue, but they were so, so good.

After dinner, I went to snap a few pictures only to discover that the batteries in my camera had died. I was bummed because I wanted to take pictures at the concert. So, I dragged Jason all over the fair on a hunt for batteries. I finally found some - just in time for the concert. As we were walking into the show, we saw the sign... No cameras! Seriously? Yup, there were actually two signs. I looked at Jason and he said just wait and see if other people were taking pictures. And were they? You bet they were. Everyone had cameras and everyone was using them and nobody said anything. Hooray!

Kelly is really wonderful in concert. She has an amazing voice and is so down to earth. During one of the songs she stumbled over the words and she just laughed at herself after the song. She said "well, at least you guys know that I'm not lip syncing." A few songs later her mic pack fell out of her back pocket and she blamed it on her "big butt" - her words not mine!

After the concert Jas and I walked around the fair for a bit and went for a ride on the sky way. We saw a teenage get his foot run over by a security guard in a golf cart and saw all kinds of strange fair food, including but not limited to chocolate covered bacon, mac and cheese on a stick and zucchini weenies. The most intriguing of them all were the zucchini weenies - hallowed out zucchinis with a hot dog inside battered and then deep fried. We didn't eat any of these strange foods, but we did share a giant cream puff that had chocolate whipped cream inside. Yummy!

Malibu

My dad and step-mom were staying at a hotel on the beach in Malibu and they invited us to come hang out for the afternoon with them. Even though we were dead tired from not getting any sleep during the Relay we decided that it would be fun to do with Dillon.

Since their hotel had it's own private beach there were not a lot of people and it was just perfect for Dillon to play in the sand and chase the waves.

I kept looking for a celebrity since you always see pictures of them on the beaches of Malibu, but I wasn't lucky enough to spot any... darn. I did however see this lady dressed in this totally crazy outfit that included Ugg boots. Who wears Uggs in the summer and on the beach no less? She looked so funny that I had to discretely snap a few photos of her as she walked by us - coming and going.

The Ugg Lady: