Yet another lesson to learn while we are traveling the world. Hanalei hit the beach after spending time in the states and she fell right back into place and began her discovery. She is truly a child that belongs on the beach and in a location with no restrictions or boundries. She loves to explore.

In fact, we had breakfast this morning and she took off on her own and walked through the trees chased "Meow's" ran on the beach...and we watched from afar. I told Brian that she really could care less if she knew where we were, she is so confidant and secure with her surroundings and we are so grateful for that!!

Swans arrive in Costa Rica

San Diego Stop off

After meeting everyone in Vegas we decided to go back to our home town of San Diego. We lived their for 11 years by the beach so we decided to stay downtown for a change of atmophere. It was so cool to be down there, in fact it felt like I had never been there before, because the only time we ever went downtown was to go out for dinner or a baseball game.

Our condo was right next to the ballpark and we walked there everyday for Hanalei to play with the kids.

Right before we left my best girlfriend Lori threw an awesome pool party at her place in the Harbour CLub downtown...oddly enough we didn't know that was going to be our last weekend in San Diego. Our buddy who's condo we were staying in, called and said he had a a renter moving in on Monday..this was Sunday so we were going to stick around for the 4th but because of the drama with finding a place on the 4th weekend in San Diego...we decided to jump on a flight to Costa Rica~! We love it here and the surf rocks!

Gosh I love choices.

Below are pics of our stay downtown and our pool party.

Surprise Brithday party in Vegas with all our buddies

Our best friend Matt turned 35 on June 14th, so his wife planned a surprise party for him at the Wynn hotel with about 20 friends coming from NY, Chicago, San Diego, Wisconsin..everywhere.

It happend to have been the same week as mine and Brian's birthday so we knew we had to put Vegas in our plans. We flew in a week early and flew my Mom out to watch Hanalei while we hung with the crew for a few days and it rocked!!!

Universal Studios


I surprised my family in Vegas.

I have to confess...the USA rocks

So it has been awhile...Over a month actually and I am going to have to confess. We left Mexico and headed to Panama City Beach to visit Brian's parents (His Mom, Judy is our assistant and a life saver while we are out of country) so we had some banking to get straight that we didn't think would be an issue, until you leave the country.

SO I stopped blogging because I really didn't think there was much to share now that we were back in the US.. Man was I wrong~!! We have had a blast.

Bike Week, Universal Studios, West Palm Beach, Vegas, and back to San Diego.

Following will be a picture and video trail of our US adventure.

What you do had a trickle down to your kids...

We are so blessed to have the opportunity to travel the world with our little girl, and are grateful for Brian's Dad that had a vision for his kids.

The Swan's Endless Summer Journey

The Swan's Endless Summer Journey

112 days ago seems like so long, it has now been over 193 days of 730!!!

Saturday Morning Band at Bike Week

We decided to take a little stopover in Florida to see family and to experience Bike Week in Panama City Beach.

Looks like the bikers sleep in!