Take a hike

The past few weeks have been busy! Will got a job at a local grocery store, which was an answer to prayer, but so far it has been "blessfully inconvenient." (Does that make sense? [Is that even a word?]) It's made our spontaneous Cali adventures more difficult. You know when you ask God for something and then He gives it to you, but you want to say, "Uh, hey God, that was kind of what I asked for, but not exactly. If you could just change these details, that'd be great!" Yeah... it's like that. We've had opposite schedules much of the time and it's just not near as fun to adventure by yourself. However, we're learning to be grateful that God's provided this opportunity for him to stay busy and productive and help provide for our family. Because let's face it, life here is expensive! But you know what's free? Hiking :) Most of what we have been able to do in our recent free time has been hiking, and SoCal has some of the best hiking around! I'm so thankful to be making friends here. It's such a blessing to have community and girl time! A couple weeks ago some of us travel nurses hiked to The Devil's Punchbowl in Cedar Creek Falls. It was so beautiful! We were able to cliff jump and climb up the waterfall, too. Pure bliss.

My sister-in-crime Meg

Finally made it!

Cliff jumping! 

Climbing up the waterfall (boo drought...)

We had our first visitor here, too! Will's brother, Kevin, stayed with us this past weekend and we had a blast. It was so nice to be with family and have a sense of "home" being brought here. We did some sightseeing and, of course, more hiking.

Exploring the tide pools in Point Loma.

Cabrillo Monument at Point Loma (with a gorgeous view of downtown SD)

At the beginning of our hike to Three Sisters. If you look closely, you can see the waterfalls. Definitely the most difficult hike I've ever been on.

You know it's intense when it requires ropes. 

So worth it.

We made a stop in La Jolla to look at all the seals. It never gets old watching these cuties!

The only picture we got of all [most] of us together. Will's stepbrother, Chris, and his girlfriend Kate moved to Los Angeles recently. Having Kevin in town was the perfect excuse to get everyone together!

Until next time...

Oh darling, let's be adventurers

Will and I have had such a fun week! This past week I worked my first three shifts off orientation, so I feel like I've gotten a taste for what a "normal" week might look like.  But of course, we couldn't have just a normal week.  Being big outdoorsy people, we always are in search of fun, new adventures and we're always up for anything! I've been blessed with a really sweet friends who is always a travel nurse at the hospital I work at. She introduced Will and me to some of her friends and we had an oceanside bonfire Monday night. It was truly magical... obviously the setting was amazing, but it was also so nice to sit with a group of people and enjoy great conversation. Really anything close to community here is so appreciated. 

We also hiked around Sunset Cliffs some more, which is one of our favorite places so far. We {illegally} hiked down the sandstone and traversed some rocks while getting hit by waves to get to this amazing cave! GOSH was it scary and hard, but so worth it.

This weekend was totally open for us, so we packed up our car and just drove north. We stopped at a campground and sure enough, they had one ocean view lot left! It was fate.

There's a cliff right after the fence down to the ocean. Amazing view!

We also stopped in La Jolla on our way home and adored it! It's so beautiful and full of fun shops and restaurants and great ocean views. We will definitely be back! One of our favorite places was Children's Pool Beach, where we found these cute little seals. If you look closely, you can see them all napping on shore. At first they just looked like rocks to us!

Our last stop was a quick hike on Broken Hill Trail at Torrey Pines State Reserve. 

We are so excited to keep hiking and camping and climbing our way around San Diego! 

More to come soon...