Good ol' California

So about a month ago matt was rewarded a trip through his work, AT&T, to the St.Regis Monarch Beach resort. Its was AMAZING. Basically like a second honeymoon! The trip was givin to about 400 AT&T employees who had outstanding service or in the top 1% of sales. Matt happened to be in the 1% of sales so they sent us away for a 3 day stay, all paid for by AT&T in beautiful, sunny California. The hotel first off was awesome. We had to go to welcome dinner for all the employees so didnt have much time to see anything. During the dinner they had karaoke. Matt decided to step out of his comfort zone and sing me a little something. He chose the song "Joker" by the Steve Miller Band. It was great, he even came down off the stage and sang to me during the last part...spot light and everything. The best part was he was the ONLY sober person who got up to sing, so he didnt have any excuse for being bad ;)

On the 2nd day of the trip we got to choose an activity to do. They had dolphin safari, whale watching, golfing, and all sorts of stuff. We got stuck with a day at leisure with your own rental car since we booked too late. Well turns out, it worked out perfectly! We thought we'd get a ford focus or something but nope, they stuck us in a Mercedes on at&ts tab. We had so much fun driving up the coast. We made our way up to Long Beach and I took Matt to one of my favorite restaurants...BUBBA GUMPS! If you havent ever been to one i suggest you find one and get there right away. Matt loved it and was very impressed! Its based on the movie Forrest Gump and has the movie playing all day and is just filled with pictures from the movie and other fun memorabilia! Afterwards we had some time to kill before we had to head back to the hotel and return the car. We dont know California at all but we knew the Queen Mary was right across the bridge. We ended up going there for a little bit and toured a Russian submarine that was next to the Queen Mary. Matt is so interested in this type of stuff since he grew up on war movies so he was in heaven. It was actually pretty interesting. We got to talk to an old Navy guy who was on an American sub during the Korean War. It was fun to listen to some of the stories and how the subs work.

The 3rd day we went to Disney Land! It was fun but super crowed since it was spring break, so we only ended up going on a few rides. Matt and I are going to Disney World with my family in a year and it got me even more excited for that!!!

Im so proud of Matt for working so hard and earning this trip his first year at AT&T. I know it wasnt easy, but hopefully we can go again next year and have even more fun memories!! Heres a few pictures of our adventures...

I couldnt leave out the picture of Matt with "The Duke" at the John Wayne airport...he searched the airport to find this statue since he knew it had to be there...bless his heart :)