In New York

went back to NYC for the womens apparel market with my clothing BFF's...overall a great trip, learned lots, saw lots of beautiful clothing and best of all got really excited about the huge opportunity that zappos and clothing have together :)

first day in the city...zappos tradition, meet up for breakfast before heading out to appointments
chocolate break with some of my favorite foodies Karrie and Jarett at the top floor of Saks where we overdosed on truffles and macaroons :)

the weather couldn't have been better, was so nice out we had to sit outside
after dinner met up with some of the others for a drink and dessert
Day 2 with my tall friends :)

dinner at Da Tomasso for Italian food and some merch planning bonding...food was okay...
dessert was better, flown in from Italy because supposedly they can't get it right in the states?
then for a broadway show, Mary Poppins...was good...I did fall asleep for one tiny little part, but it was the one slow part and I was tired, but otherwise really good and entertaining, best part at the end when Mary Poppins went flying through the sky and hearing "just a spoon full of sugar and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"

Day 3...it started to get hot and humid out...a vendor had highly recommended a peanut butter banana smoothie at gregory's, so we had to try one and was glad we did, it was delish!

Dinner was at Ilili's Mediterranean Restaurant and I loved it! Was so happy because I hadn't really had anything amazing yet during the trip except for the peanut butter smoothie...this was well worth the wait

I've had kabobs before but these were the best ever and I know
this for me because I am usually a steak person, but this time I actually liked the chicken better, so soft and flavorful and the rice was exceptional, usually a winner for me when I must take Jay back to try :)
so before the kabobs came out, there was about 10 other appetizer dishes like hommus, baba ghannouj, eggplant (tasted like friend bananas, so good), rolls, saugage, but my favorite were these pancake looking things that tasted like meat, pancake, syrup, almost like a mcgriddle...hee! can't remember or find what they are called
Day 4, one big appointment and then headed home
Til next time New York!

San Diego

got home from New York about 8pm Thursday night and we were up by 3am Friday morning to drive straight to Uncle Rommel's retirement ceremony as a Chief Hospital Medic at Camp Pendleton. So proud of him, he served for 24 years!

we made it just in time, started at 10am, we seriously got there right at 10am, was pretty crazy but we did it, changing and brushing teeth at starbucks isn't so bad :)
with cousin Abby
daddy having a moment...his little girl...getting so big!
Congratulations Rommel!!!

spent the rest of the weekend playing with cousins...fun day at the park
walked around to pick up some food and found a foam fountain
Jaylin and Maddie were trying to save some to show their cousins

we didn't realize Uncle lived so close to the Trolly so we decided we would spend Sunday before we left exploring downtown San Diego
first stop, gaslamp...walked around for a little but spent most of our day at seaport village...Jaylin was throwing a fit cause she was cold
as soon as we got to seaport village, we saw this and the kids begged us to go on it...Jayme said that is all she wanted, we thought it would be fun, so we did it but first some walking around
was so pretty out
cute little area with all the vendors and interesting people
like the rock man, was crazy how he balanced those huge rocks
then the sword man who stuck a sword down his throat for a quick second, bent over to show everyone and then flung it out

and of course the yummy treats, it's bad when I looked up on line the restaurants and saw all these dessert places and we went to all of them :)

these cookies were amazing, all soft and moist, we had 8 between us
Jaylin ate hers in a tree
Frosted Robin cupcakes were fantastic as well, not all of them only a few, the top left was called "milk and cookies" had an orea at the bottom of it, middle right was mango and bottom right peanut butter...the green mint and pink bubble gum weren't that great
and then Jaylin had to have a candle apple at Seaport coffee and fudge

boat time...first on land around downtown and then in the water

sea lions...while we were out we saw 3 military R, M18, something airplanes (something big because everyone was in shock) but they were so fast I couldn't get a pic of it :) we also saw a few dolphins because some of the trainers were out checking on them. Was a fun time, the past times we've gone to San Diego it was for amusement parks, so it was nice to see this downtown area, we'll be back soon, so much more beautifulness to see in San Diego!

Father's Day - Top of the World

Father's Day Weekend started with the usual Friday night dinner at Town Square...daddy's favorite, Sushi!then Saturday took Dad and Jay to The Top of the World Restaurant at the Stratosphere...have been up before for a party but not to the spinning restaurant

thought the kids would get a kick out of it and they sure did, they couldn't believe we were moving...glued to the windows
finally got them to sit...best part was passing the dessert tray :)
which was really good
the banana bread pudding was our favorite

food was pretty good, I got the Lobster grilled cheese, Dee got the Bahn Mi and we halfed both :) was good just got saltier as you at the grilled cheese and I like salty so this was a little too much...the Dad's did steak
Happy Father's Day Dad!
Lolo got an extra special card from the kids this year, not a singing card but a recording of their voices wishing him a happy father's day

afterwards we headed up higher for more beautiful views...then surprisingly Jayme wanted to ride the Xtreme, which like I said sooo surprising cause she is such a baby when it comes to roller coasters

up high

down low

they did it! we were so scared and proud at the same time of Jayme!
It wouldn't be a Jay Day if we didn't go somewhere with something ridiculously sweet, first he said we wanted to go to both Sugar Factory and Serendipity, but we were good after Sugar Factory :)
had lunch this time, again food is okay more for the fun of it on the dessert side which this time we did fondue
the chocolate taste like any other fondue, but what made it fun was the assortment of dipping choices
especially their home made marshmallows, I'm not a big marshmallow fan, but these were good especially when put with the brownies before dipping :)
kids enjoyed it and of course made a mess

afterward went to the see the water show

the kids each got Jay something small, it was cute...Happy Father's Day Jay!!!