Catalina Crossing 2010

It is Paul's 30th birthday on Monday so when I asked him what he wanted to do, he said he wanted to paddle in the Catalina race.  He did it last year and because of money/timing, I wasn't able to go with him.  So we figured that we would take the ferry up on Saturday and make a little mini vacation out of it.  We had such a good time! I can't believe that I had never been to Catalina before.  Maile was such a good little girl too! We would love to go back sometime soon and rent a golf cart and really get to see the island. I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as we enjoyed our weekend.

Maile had so much fun on the ferry ride over to the island.  She is such a people watcher and will seriously stare at someone until she can get their attention and then flirts with them like crazy!

I know its hard to believe, but she really is like this about 90% of the time...how lucky are we??

We were in Catalina on September 11th, so they were flying the flag at half mast.

All Smiles!

Apparently there are buffalo on the island.  We however, only saw this crazy beast! Maybe next time we will see the real deal.

It got pretty chilly over there in the evening and I just couldn't resist taking pictures of Maile wearing her hoodie! 

This is a picture of the start of Paul's race.  It's kind of hard to see, but all of the boats were lined just past the pier.  It was the first time that I actually got to see the start of a race in so long!  All in all, it was a great weekend!