Goal #23 Kayak La Jolla sea caves

Since I was born and raised in San Diego county, people always think I'll have tips on what to do there. I don't. I didn't get my license until I was 17, and even then I was afraid of driving on the freeway. I much more of an expert on fun things to do in Utah than I am in my home state. So this adventure was one step toward fixing that!

Last summer I took a break from school and went home for the first summer break since I was a freshman. Since I was home, my mom and I continued a tradition we'd had when I was little--going on "birthday trips."

Birthday trips are the BEST! It's when you're a kid, and it's the weekend before or after your birthday, and your mom takes you ANYWHERE you want, and you get to sleep in a hotel and everything! I usually would choose to go to a play. My mom and I went to the Pantages theater in LA, the Lawrence Welk, or Hollywood seeing a new play every year.

This time my mom said she wanted to go on an "adventure" with me--something from my 99 list! I was impressed. So I researched this goal, and found out there were SHARKS! Harmless leopard sharks, but the pictures looked like this. Yikes.

There was no way my mom was gonna do this! I thought. And she looked a little green when I told her. But she still wanted to go. That's love.

We had a lovely time, exploring 7 caves with the La Jolla Bike and Kayak Tours, Inc. We didn't take our cameras with us on the tour, so I stole some pics from the internet of the caves:

Fortunately, they had a photographer taking pics of us as we came in, and he even got us flipping over our kayak! Apparently 2-seaters always do that. They didn't tell us that ahead of time. Luckily my poor mom didn't go too far. I, however, got launched. :) And loved it.

My dollar for completing this goal goes to one of my students' DonorsChoose campaigns (I teach educational technology to elementary ed majors). She wants an iPad mini for her classroom.