November 23, 2010, My sister Corinne and her husband Paul, Richard and I went on a two day two night vacation to Catalina Island. Paul found an excellent Package Deal on TravelZoo for us and it ended up being a GREAT trip!
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Here we are in the Ferry Terminal.
It takes 1 hour from Long Beach to Catalina.
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Paul and Corinne on the Ferry.
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Richard on the Ferry.
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Corinne sitting in the Courtyard. It was a Gorgeous Patio/Courtyard!
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By the Fire Pit. It was COLD by the way.
(Definitly off-season in Catalina.)
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Across the sand from Pavillion Hotel, which was FIRST CLASS!
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We went for lunch of wonderful Clam Chowder plus other good things. Right in the middle of the restaurant was this ship--where we chose to eat!
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These next shots are of the hotel rooms at the Pavillion. So so nice and spit spot. Many amenities including free movies, WiFi, and a most excellent breakfast. Included in this package was the Ferry ride over and back, the Zip Line, Harry Potter Movie in the Casino, Minerature Golf, Island Tour, Ocean Tour and many others we didn't have the time to take advantage of.
THIS NEXT PART IS VERY SCAREY
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I can't believe how naive we were--smiling and laughing in this picture thinking we were awesome to be doing something so daring and scarey. We had no clue.
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It just seemed like it was going to be so fun. What an adventure, we thought.
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Richard was the first of our group to go. The man is 80 years old! Has he no common sense?
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He said later we was scaird; he gave no sign of such.
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I had watched the others. No problem thought I.
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Amanda opened that gate and led me to the edge.
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I'm NOT GOING! No way was I able to walk off the edge of that platform!!! I was terrified! I even tried this squat , but Amanda would have no part of that--I was to stand up straight and jump out into the abyss. I COULD NOT DO IT!!!
Well, I talked her into giving me a shove.
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This is another gal who didn't make it all the way to the platform so they threw her a rope and they pulled her in! Man, I am so happy that didn't happen to me.
6 comments:
I think your all amazing!! I wanted to do it when we were in catalina last year but it was not opening for 2 weeks. You all looked wonderful and brave and in general fun fun people.
Claudia
I love the pic of you and Aunt Corinne in your zip-line attire. You both look so young and hip! I'm very impressed you all did this! Awesome!
What a fun vacation. I am glad you had a good time.
Good for you for going on the zip line.
This is horrible. The anxiety I am feeling watching my 80 year old father take off, and then you are about to go next!!!!!
I did love the hotel pictures though. Looks like a REALLY nice place. You didn't happen to take pictures of the breakfast did you?
Jill, No I didn't take pictures of the food. It was a continental breakfast, but it had real glasses, dinnerware, silverware, glass pitchers, French pastries, wonderful fruit, etc. First Class! Susan
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