So 2 weeks ago, I returned from my vacation and got to have a little stay-cation when some of my favorite people came to visit me!!! Chelsea, Caroline, and Emily came to California!
They enjoyed a day in San Fran and I drove up to meet them after work last Friday night.
I was still recovering from the black plague that I was stricken with following the cruise and I didn't have much of a voice (think pre-puberty 12 year old boy). So when we did a little late night walk to Ghirardelli Square, I just got tea instead of ice cream (and got criticized by the Phines).
Side bar: many photos stolen from Caroline and Chelsea.
We woke up to an absolutely beautiful morning filled with sunshine and Golden Gate Bridges.
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| Fail....... trying to hold up the bridge. Not raise the roof. |
Then we began our drive down to SLO. Stopped for lunch in Monterey, of course.
And then took the always-beautiful drive down highway 1. I have made this drive about half a dozen times now, and each time it still takes my breath away. It is such an absolutely amazingly beautiful sight that I really can't describe it to you even through pictures.
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| Right before Emily left those sunglasses on top of that rock.... |
We even made it to San Simeon to see the elephant seals (the dark blobs in the picture below) before it was too dark.
The next day we were blessed with another beautiful day, so we rose bright and early to go on a ride.
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| I love our Cal Poly broodmares.... I think they are so pretty :) |
Then we cleaned up and headed down to Avila Beach for some sunset-watchin' and classy wine drinkin' (red solo cup.... I lift you up.....).
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| Saw some random guys jump off the pier. |
For a different account (and slightly different photos) of this trip, check out here and here. Now is a great time to give a shout-out to the brand-new Caroline and Chelsea blog, aka 2 Phines. They post some pretty good stuff (and tell you how to make yummy edibles).
I am so, so, so incredibly lucky to have these girls in my life (you too Hales! You were greatly missed.). They have been by my side since elementary school. Well, OK, maybe they weren't totally on my side all the time in elementary school, but in middle school we got our mess together.
The last time I saw them was in August for only a short 2 hours at a dinner while I was in town, before they left town (to come out west, ironically). It is amazingly wonderful that after so much time apart, we still have the same kind of friendship. We've changed, and life has changed, but the way we work together hasn't changed at all. And I love that. I haven't lived within 1,000 miles of them in almost 5 years, and we still laugh at the same stupid things, feel perfectly at home with one another, and at the end of the day we are still perfectly content to call it a night at 8:30 pm and watch Friends re-runs on TV. I know that they still have my back and still love me the same way that they did when we were in 11th grade, even if we do live 3,000 some miles apart. And that, my friends, is freakin' awesome.
love,
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Food for thought (I should probably stop calling it this, since I'm not giving y'all much food for thought anymore.... I think I'll change the name of this section to "Mostly stupid YouTube videos that are good for a laugh with an occasional deep-meaning video most likely related to agriculture")
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