A Winter Break

I'll be the first to admit that there is nothing prettier

than Mt Timpanogos on a cold wintry day. 

However, by the end of January I've had enough,

 so I recently exchanged this view for this----

----Sunny Santa Barbara!

On Saturday we went on a 3 hour whale watching

tour and we were not disappointed!

Not too far out of the harbor we came across

this huge pod of dolphins

They were so fun to watch because they 

loved swimming right next to the boat

We spotted this big gray whale and followed him

around for about an hour, he put on quite the show

 

Another day the temps were in the 70's and

Jeff had the day off so in the morning we went up

 into the hills and hiked around these rock formations 

for awhile, the kids loved it.

By afternoon it was warmer so we headed to the

beach in Carpenteria,  still a little too cold to get in 

the water but the kids had a blast "sledding" down 

the sand hills

One night we hurried down to Hendrys Beach

to watch the sunset, it was amazing.

Loved my Winter Break and loved spending

time with these people!