We got a ‘News Flash’ from Vancouver, B.C. late Friday night but I’d already written and submitted my blog. it was great news so Paulette managed to scramble around and beat me to the punch with her Saturday morning post. I couldn’t possibly improve on what Paulette wrote, so I’m just going to go with her words:
We received some wonderful NEWS last night…middle daughter, Maggie and her boyfriend, Toby GOT ENGAGED!!! (insert a happy dance here!!) Man, I love that Google++ (it’s similar to Facetime and Skype with video) as minutes after Toby popped the question, we became part of their celebration! I am SO happy for them and for our family as Toby has been ‘hanging around’ FOREVER…and will now officially become part of our family!! Truth be told, Toby already IS a part of our family and already feels like a son but this seals the deal…and I have to say I couldn’t have picked a better man to do the job! And you KNOW what they say..First comes LOVE, then comes MARRIAGE….
Congratulations, Maggie and Toby!! We couldn’t be happier or more pleased!! Wishing you both a life time of happiness!
I agree 100% with everything Paulette said – congrats Maggie & Toby!
San Diego’s Ocean Beach – this is a leash free Dog Beach
It was getting just a little bit too hot for our liking here in Desert Hot Springs this week, so Friday night we planned a one-day getaway – to the beautiful, cool, Pacific Ocean. We left the Sands at 8am and our destination was San Diego with our goal being to explore the Mission Beaches area just north of Old Town San Diego and Coronado.
Molly and Rylie loved this huge, sandy, wide-open Dog Beach=
After a mandatory 1 hour stop at a new Quilt Shop, Rosie’s Calico Cupboard, in San Diego, I got back on I-8 and headed west until it dead-ended near Mission Beach Park. I parked the truck and we walked around the grassy park for a while to give the dogs a run.
It was barely 60F on the San Diego beaches – what a difference!
We sure did get away from the hot weather alright as it was barely 60F on the San Diego beaches. There was a lot of fog hanging around and the sun was having a difficult time shining through. What a difference to drop more than 30 degrees in just over a 2 hour drive south from the Sands RV Resort in Desert Hot Springs.
Even us humans like this Ocean Beach Dog Beach
After walking around Mission Beach Park, we got back in the truck and were driving around rather aimlessly when I saw a sign pointing to Ocean Beach – a sign also announced it was a Dog Beach. That sounded interesting so we followed the signs to the beach where we were expecting to find a small section of a not so great beach.
Boy, were we ever wrong! The Ocean Beach Dog Park is huge, beautiful and worthy of us humans even. It’s one of the nicest, white sand beaches we’ve ever been to. Even though it was a bit cool for us, lots of folks were sunbathing, swimming and surfing in the cool ocean water. And dogs? There were hundreds of them running all over the place. It was great.
Since all the other dogs were off-leash, we let Molly and Rylie loose and they took off over the sandy beach at a full gallop. What a great time they had. It’s been a few months since they’d been to a beach and I guess it reminded them of home a bit. They are, after all, Island Dogs!
View from Mission Beach Park
We hung around Ocean Beach for quite a while letting Molly and Rylie have a good run. When they eventually tired out we walked back to the truck and headed up the road to La Jolla. What an expensive, trendy little town this turned out to be. Lots of designer shops, cafe’s and stuff. It reminded us a bit of Carmel up on the Monterey Peninsula. We were a bit hungry by then but we figured that even a hamburger might be out of our reach in La Jolla.
Molly and Rylie are both experienced beach rock scramblers
Tired by this time, we found I-5, headed north and cut over to I-15 well before we got too close to Los Angeles and its dreaded freeway system of stop-and-go. We were lucky as we had a straight drive home, no traffic tie-ups, and drove into the Sands just after 4pm. It was 89F and it felt really great! To heck with 60F – way too cold!
Have a great Sunday, and thanks again for visiting!
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