We will go again next summer, here are just a few memories. I went every summer from the time I was 7. As we got older we would invite lots of friends, the girls would split the cost of two rooms with a shared bathroom in the Atwater Hotel. The boys would split a smaller room on the opposite side of the hotel. I always wondered, did my mom plan it that way? lol. A dorky story: I used to always hike up to the bell tower and look out over the bay and wonder what my life would be like the next year, example, "next year will I have a boyfriend?", "next year will I be married?" "next year will I be pregnant?" etc. etc.
When Blaine and I got married we were pretty poor, so we went to Catalina for our honeymoon, Hawaii or the Caribbean it wasn't, but I loved it! When we started having kids we decided to go every other year so on the off year we could do other vacations with the kids, Oklahoma, Utah, Georgia, Oregon, Arkansas, Missouri, usually to visit family or go camping and see the national parks like the Grand Canyon and Zion National Park.
I will always love Catalina and look forward to sharing it with the next generation, my grandkids!
