Our annual trip to California was wonderful this year. In retrospect we tried to plan too much and relax too little. We decided to go north of San Diego this year to the Santa Barbara area. We have always wanted to explore that area and we weren't too disappointed. The weather was near perfect for our whole trip. We rented bikes one morning and rode the Ventura Bike Trail that goes along the coast. We saw some really neat landscape, got to breath the ocean air, and even stopped and got an ice cream cone along the way, did I mention heaven?!
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| Kodak moment in the flowers |
One day we spent in the european inspired town of Solvang. Cory had gone there last year and it sounded so fun that we made the hour long detour to go see it. Wow we were amazed. We loved every part of this quaint little place of heaven in California. The shops, the many bakeries (and yes we tried our best to go in all of them and taste a little treat). The buildings all were european in design so it was really fun. We ate at the Greenhouse Cafe which was fun and really yummy. Perfect warm/cool day. Love, love, loved it!
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| Solvang - Danish heritiage city |
We spent one day with Cory and he was a great tour guide. Cory is stationed in Long Beach with the Coast Guard so it was fun to spend a day with him. He took us to the Korean Freedom Bell site. It was really something and I will post more pictures soon. It was a fun day and we met up with Kristen in the afternoon.
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| Me and my boy |
We took one day and sailed to the Channel Islands (more pictures to follow), on the way we met up with a school of dolphin. Did I mention heaven? I have always wanted to see dolphin in the wild. One more check off my bucket list. Next is a whale, I looked and looked but no whale in sight.
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Dolphins at sea
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