California: Day 4

Today we attempted to eat our leftovers from Friday for breakfast.. and it was gross! Luckily, I had an apple from breakfast yesterday, so all was not lost! After packing everything up and checking out of the hotel, we drove up to Rialto for one last visit with Rusty and Michelle before going over to a local tree nursery to get some more souvenirs. This guy was really funny.. and we stayed way too long! We bought a Chinese Windmill Palm (can survive down to 5 degrees!), an ultra-dwarf orange tree, and a weird orange tree that makes really small ones that are sour. The two fruit tress will stay inside the house until we can get a little green house figured out for them, but the palm should be able to go out as soon as Cody can plant it.



After spending the rest of our cash ... We left for home! We stopped in Barstow to eat at the original Del Taco .. It was pretty good! I wasn't expecting it to taste different, and it may just be because it's in California with fresher ingredients, but I was pretty impressed! The chicken-soft taco I got was definitely bigger and it had tomatoes!


The drive home was pretty boring .. I got to surf the internet for most of the trip, but that got old after a while. So, we listened to music the rest of the trip. The trees in the back was pretty comical, and the wheel cover came off our car about half-way home. Cody was able to fix it (well, cut it off!), so it was ok.


Well, we made it safe. I'm really missing it already, but I'll be ok *sniff* 'Night ya'll!

California: Day 3

Today, we ate a quick breakfast and headed over to the swap meet at the Costa Mesa fairgrounds. It was pretty fun! My feet hurt a little from all the walking (four miles of booths!), but we got a few goodies. I got a bracelet with a peace sign on it and Cody got a karma-catcher and a laser pointer .. Not too exciting, but it was fun!


After the swap meet, we decided to head up to Hollywood. As we were driving, it hit me that the Oscars tomorrow.. That equals lots of traffic, so it took us a lot longer than we thought. Plus, I didn't get to see the handprints at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre because it was blocked off for the awards.. bleh. We went to the Hollywood Museum, which was pretty cool. Not amazing, but there were a lot of things in there from movies and such. It was interesting for sure. We ate at Burger King (so exciting!) and we also got to see the Hollywood sign, so that was great.





After we got done with all that, we went back to Newport and to the beach for one last evening there. Unfortunately, the clouds were out and my beach sunset plan was foiled. Also, my camera's battery was dead, so I didn't get any photos. After soaking in the last of the beach, we headed back over to California Pizza Kitchen for dinner. Very yummy, of course! We were pretty tired after that, so we went to bed!

California: Day 2

Today we headed over to the beach which was surprisingly close to our hotel! (only about 5 minutes!) Cody was still feeling a little under the weather, so we mostly just walked around and enjoyed the sun.



From there, we drove around a bit and found a nice little spot for lunch. We went to Subway to grab some lunch and went back to the spot to eat. We shared with some pigeons who quickly became our best friends .. It was pretty funny!


After eating, we walked down to the water to warm up from the cold drinks and shade. We ended up staying until about 5 just watching the surfers and amazing waves. It was so nice to just sit wand enjoy the scenery!


When we were finally able to tear ourselves from the beach, we went to dinner with Cody's Aunt and Uncle Michelle and Rusty, along with their daughter Marcy and her friend. We went to Claim Jumpers and it was pretty yummy! After eating, we went over to the local Walmart to look at their plants (since we bought a nice spider house plant last time that has been doing really well the past two years). We didn't really see anything special, so we just went back to the hotel and to bed!

California: Day 1

We left for California around 7:30 this Thursday morning, so here is the start of our trip!

We stopped in St. George for fuel..


Then on to Las Vegas where we had lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe ..


We stopped in Baker to see the big thermometer and our good friend Big Boy ..


We then checked in our hotel and then headed to dinner at California Pizza Kitchen (YUMMY!)

So yeah, sorry this is a little late, but the rest is to come!:)

DEADLINE!!

Alright, folks. It's time for me to make my photoblog and writing blog password protected. Tomorrow at 3pm, I will make the switch official, but I wanted to give one more warning this afternoon. If you would like to be added to these lists, please leave a message on this blog, or either of the other two before 3pm tomorrow. If you don't plan on looking at them, don't worry about it. If I remember correctly, these are my participants so far: Roo, Brittni, and Darah. If you would only like to be added to one specifically, please say so and I'll take care of it. Otherwise, I'll just add you to both. I don't plan on making this one password protected anytime soon. Comment!!

**EDIT** My photo and writing blogs are both open to the public.. I can't remember why I changed this originally, but they're back to normal! SHEESH!