Carolinas Medical Center allows us to have five days each year to spend at a conference and covers the expenses for the trip. Chancy and I decided to go to an ACOG Leadership Conference in San Diego. We were probably one of the last flights to get out of Charlotte last Wednesday during the blizzard. We were very lucky! We left thirty degree weather and eleven inches of snow for seventy degree weather and sunny blue skies. We had an amazing time. The scenery was breathtaking. What a perfect conference :)
Our hotel room was beautiful! I loved the bathroom too!
Chancy's high school friend, Devon, lives in San Diego now as a traveling nurse and was an amazing tour guide. He took an entire day off to show us all around San Diego. Our first night in town, we went up to a bar on the 30th floor with great views of the city.
We started our first full day in San Diego at Mount Soledad. It had fantastic views of the city and beaches.
Me and Chancy
We ate lunch at the Cliff Hanger Cafe looking out over the Pacific Ocean. Hand gliders jump off the cliffs at the edge of the restaurant. It was the most beautiful lunch view I have ever seen.
Hand Gliders!
I bought lots of sunscreen :)
Devon drove us to a beach with hiking trails. We definitely got our exercise.
Hiking with cacti
So beautiful!
On top of the world!
I could have taken hundreds of pictures of these views!
This little guy was perfectly posed.
Next, we drove down to the caves of La Jolla to see the sea lions. They were smelly!
Chancy and the birds
La Jolla
I love sea lions!
After our hiking and sea lion watching, we drove back to Ocean Beach to Devon's house. We sat on the clifts to watch the sunset. So perfect!
I can't believe he lives here all the time!
Chancy and Devon watching the sunset!
Meghan, Devon and Chancy before dinner at our hotel.
Chancy and I went to some of the conference on Friday morning, but decided to bail at lunch. We still had so much to see in San Diego! We walked down to the piers to have lunch at The Fish Market Seafood Restaurant.
After lunch, we took a ferry over to Coronado Island.
We walked to Hotel del Coronado. Marilyn Monroe filmed a movie here at "the Del".
Happy Valentine's Day to us!
Moo!
Waiting for our ferry back to San Diego.
Saturday morning, we headed off to the San Diego Zoo! They had a skycar that takes you over the zoo.
We loved the polar bears.
Little red pandas
The highlight of my trip was seeing the pandas!! I have always wanted to see a giant panda!
So happy!
This is the baby panda! He was such a ham laying on his back right in the front of his enclosure.
Elephants
Hyena
We had an absolutely amazing trip! So thankful to be at a residency program that supports such fantastic vacations :)
