Our Babymoon

On New Year's Eve, Trae surprised me with a trip to California for our final vacation before babies: our "babymoon".  With twins coming, our Doctor doesn't want us traveling after our 24th week, which is February 8th.  So, Trae took advantage of MLK day and booked us a long weekend trip January 19th-23rd to a resort called Terranea located about 30 minutes from downtown Los Angeles on a peninsula overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
We had an early flight that had us arriving in Los Angeles by 8AM, so we drove over to the popular shopping district and celebrity hot-spot, The Ivy to eat breakfast.  While we didn't spot any celebrities at that hour of day, we had a great time relaxing and discussing the days ahead of us.  From there we headed over to Warner Brothers Studio's. I was too sleepy to take the tour, but I wanted to see where The Ellen Degeneres Show was taped and so many of our favorite movies and TV shows were made!

 

After our stop to Warner Brothers we were ready to get to our resort and relax.  The drive up the Coast was beautiful.  We passed through Manhattan beach, Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach all before getting to the Resort.  Our room was beautiful and had a great view of the pacific ocean.

We started out every day with a morning hike on the trails around the resort. We would see dolphins every morning and look for whales which were migrating down to Mexico while getting some nice exercise. 

 We both indulged in massages at the spa before relaxing in the warm southern California sun making us completely forget about it being January.  Trae's choice of reading: The book of baby names.  It was fun going through ideas and meanings of the names in that special setting.

 Each night we ate our dinner outside overlooking an amazing sunset. The sun was warm and when it started to set the heaters and fire pits turned on around us, and blankets were passed out to those who wanted some extra warmth for dinner and drinks on the patio.

After dinner we snuggled up next to one of the several fire pits around the resort and cooked our own s'mores.  YUMMY!!

On our last full day in California we we decided to go exploring in some of the cute beach towns we passed through on the way to Terranea.  Our concierge recommended we rent bikes in Hermosa Beach and bike to Manhattan Beach to eat lunch and look around.  I was a little nervous to get on a bike with my poor equilibrium due to pregnancy, but after a little practice we felt comfortable and was so glad to be out doing something different and fun.  The weather was amazing and so were the homes we biked past on the strand right next to the ocean.

We were having such an amazing time with our exploring that we didn't realize we had missed Manhattan beach by several miles until we saw LAX right in front of us. Whoops!  We turned around and headed back to Manhattan Beach where we ate lunch right off the beach. 

Pounding my root beer at lunch.

We made our way back to the resort in time to take pictures with one last California sunset.

Our "babymoon" was absolutely amazing: relaxing, romantic, active and so happy in such a beautiful setting.   We left feeling happy, refreshed and ready to embark on all the adventures that await us!