Early April Update

It's been a busy 4 weeks. Here's the recap.
We found out in early March that we will be going to Brussels, Belgium for 3 years, and in the interim we've solidified a number of plans. First, we'll be leaving SD on August 21st, and we'll be heading over for a house hunting trip in mid-June. We just started French lessons down here, and we're loving it so far! We're going to institute French only speaking hour at the Hensarling house. I have a feeling it will be pretty quiet around here for at least a couple weeks.
-Birthday Weekend
My buddy Nate and I have talked for a while now about renting a plane and flying our brides up to Santa Barbara, and with his pre-deployment training, and life in general, we hadn't had a chance to do it until my birthday weekend. We checked out the plane early in the afternoon on Friday, and after giving the girls a thorough brief, we launched out of Carlsbad-Palomar on our way to Santa Barbara. We headed out over the ocean, took a little detour over Santa Catalina Island and the Channel Islands, and finally touched down in Santa Barbara. We stayed overnight and got back in the plane early Saturday afternoon. The trip up was fairly direct, but on the way home we took the scenic route through downtown LA, south along the coast, took a detour through Camp Pendleton, and finally headed all the way down through downtown SD and over Coronado island. Awesome.



-28 MAR: Trolley Tour
Jen and I decided to be cheezy tourists and take a trolley tour of SD. Our conductor was Bob, and he was incredibly knowledgeable about SD history. It was a great way to spend a spring evening.