A Happy New Years blog

You may have noticed no Christmas cards from the Goleta Seidel’s this year. We have been busy traveling since mid November and Christmas cards were not on our to-do list at that time. So, how about a New Years letter instead?

Our friends Cindy and Gary invited us to go to Kauai in mid November for a week. Who can pass that kind of invite up! Here are some photos.

On of the infamous Kauai Chickens who roam the island

We also stayed in Walnut Creek after we returned from Kauai for Thanksgiving. I think that makes 3 years in a row for us to do that.

In early December we did a 4 day cruise on Royal Princess with Tim and DeeDee. What fun for just 4 days.

Royal Princess from Catalina Island

Royal Princess in Ensenada, MX

Clyda and DeeDee having Bellini's at the Bellini Bar

We came home on a Monday and on Friday Gary and Cindy picked us up and we drove to Del Mar for one night before boarding Holland America’s Oosterdam for a 7 day cruise to the Mexican Riviera. We had great weather for the whole trip with temperatures in the high 70’s during our shore excursions.

Oosterdam in Puerto Vallarta

Street scene in Puerto Vallarta

Restaurant on the Malecon, Puerto Vallarta. Good food and Margaritas

Entrance to Cathedral, Mazatlan

Cabo San Lucas harbor

Ship Christmas tree

We returned to Del Mar and stayed there for Christmas with Cindy and Gary’s family. We spent part of the time in the Del Mar Hilton which was nice.

Decorated palm trees in Del Mar

We came home the day after Christmas in all the traffic caused by the closure of all the highways going North out of Los Angeles because of snow and ice. All traffic was routed along the coastal route, highway 101. It took us 10 hours to make the trip. Talk about slow crawling traffic. The last 40 miles took us 4 hours.

We were home for New Years but will be leaving shortly for our annual winter desert trip.

Happy New Years to all!