... right here in San Diego, our hometown! Note: Although our Leadership Convention coincided with the birth of our granddaughter and six months have already passed, I'd be remiss if I didn't share this blog I began in March. This week, now September, I am preparing to head to Covention! We started with a classic beach cruise with Russell Buttars and Andrew Barrus from the Corporate office on Sunday afternoon. I picked them up from their downtown hotel in my everyday car for convenience and...

Apparently, we took not a single pic from our stop in Oceanside, a sign of a good time and that we were all a little tired as we were heading out for our various summer adventures! The campground itself was so nice, clean and orderly. We loved it despite the less than easy entrance, that required me to stand in the middle of the 1 and stop traffic, so Doug could swing wide! Our highlight was that Haley, Zeina and Frankie joined us for dinner. We found a great fast food restaurant just a block...

I'm not a Johnny on the spot, never was. So when we canceled our trip to Montana and beyond, just two days before departing....that meant that I would be planning a trip, just two days before departing! First I called around and canceled all of our reservations that we had made 4-8 months prior. Then, I began booking online and when necessary making the dreaded calls. 'Oh boy, we are in the peak of summer, you really should have called sooner' the well intentioned employee would tell me....