Happy Birthday Dallin!

Dallin's Birthday was today.  He had to go to school but we had a nice dinner and some cake! and he's been on the phone with friends and family all night, so I think he's enjoying it.  O and the presents I ordered him didn't come yet, but the pens that I ordered so that we could get free super saver shipping on amazon came... it was pretty funny.

California

On Thursday, Dallin started school and I took off and went to California for a little vacation.  I visited with my mom and my old roommate  Jessi came up from Arizona.  We went shopping and hung out at the beach. It was really fun to see her and to catch up and talk! Then on Sunday we headed down to Carlsbad where our friends were camping and stayed until Tuesday when I came home.  It was so good to go to a beach with waves!  I had really missed the sunsets, on the east coast there are so many trees that you can't really see the sun set, and I got to see a really pretty one while I was there.  I also got to see a ton of dolphins on Tuesday morning which was pretty cool (Dallin asked if they were bottle neck dolphins, but we're pretty sure they weren't, bottle nose maybe, but not bottle neck).  While I was there I got a much needed tan! and Susan and my mom say I am a normal color now and don't look sickly and pale which is good news. I am now all rested and relaxed and ready to start school on Monday.

Monuments

We went to look at the monuments at night last week, it was still really hot, but there was a concert by the U.S. Army Band was playing a free concert so we listened to that for a while and then walked around, it was really pretty. 

Bethany Beach

So Dallin and I were finally able to get out to the beach here on the east coast!  We started the 3 hour drive at about 9 am and in true Dallin and Autumn fashion we picked a busy weekend and got stuck in a ton of traffic.  So five hours and one really long bathroom line later we made it down to the beach.  We managed to find a meter (that still had some time on it!) and walked a few blocks down to the beach.   It was the first time either of us has ever been to an east coast beach so we were pretty excited.  We found out that the Atlantic Ocean is really warm which made it more fun to swim in, but the waves were really small so there wasn't much to play in.  Dallin went on a mission to find me some good sea shells and did really good until the tide came up too high for him to find any.   After our 2.5 hours was up on  our meter, we went up the coast a bit to Rehoboth Beach where my friend said there was a really good Italian restaurant and had dinner there and then splurged and got some ice cream too.  The drive back was much better since there wasn't any traffic and we made it back in under 3 hours with a little bit of a tan! hooray!