Father's Day Weekend

AJ had a region meeting on June 14th and 15th in Laguna Niguel (which is just south of Laguna Beach). We decided to extend our stay until June 17th and have a mini family vacation.  We stayed at the Ritz Carlton Dana Point.  This was a very nice hotel right on the beach.  Our room was overlooking  the water with a nice little balcony.

AJ was in meetings all day/night on Thursday and Friday, so Cooper and I had to keep ourself entertained.  We explored the hotel property, went on walks on the beach and on the nice path that went near the beach, we went swimming, played outside and visited the only "child friendly" restaurant where we became regulars and everyone knew Cooper.

Friday night, AJ got done with meetings around 5:30 pm and they were having a buffet outside, so Cooper and I went along to go mingle for a bit and so Cooper and I could meet his boss, Johnny.  Cooper loved seeing everyone and did great with strangers holding him.  But it was getting way past his bedtime, so we had to head back to the room. AJ continued to stay out with his colleagues.

Unfortunately, Cooper did not sleep well on Friday or Saturday night.  We usually let him fuss for a little, but since we were in a hotel, we didn't want him to cry in the middle of the night and wake everyone up.  So when Cooper was up, so were we.  Cooper got off his schedule during this trip.  He rarely napped because I think he was just so excited about everything.  Thankfully, when we returned home, he returned to his routine fairly easily.

It was nice to have AJ to hang out with on Saturday.  We went and had breakfast, tried to get Cooper to nap, went on a nice long walk, headed to the pool where we hung out with some of AJ's co-workers, and then that evening went over to the external's house who lives in Orange County and had a BBQ.  We had to leave around 6:30 pm because Cooper was getting very fussy and needed to head to bed.

Sunday morning we went and had breakfast, I let AJ go work out for Father's Day while Coop and I packed everything up, we then headed to the beach for about 1.5 hours, then checked out of the hotel and started our journey back up home.  We stopped in Irvine for lunch at Red Robin.  Cooper is now sitting in a high chair.  It's a great thing that he can now sit in a high chair, as I feel we have more flexibility now to go out and do things.

It was a great long weekend and a great father's day.  Very relaxing and fun to spend time together as a family.  AJ also got some very nice grill accessories so he can make a variety of foods on the grill.