| adventure update |
[Jan. 14th, 2009|09:52 am] |
Oh gosh, so much ground to cover!
We left southern california and drove up the beautiful Pacific Coast Highway (1) and then cut up highway 23 through the mountains to get to Thousand Oaks, where we met a friend there and galavanted around the mall, bought some gourmet chocolates, and saw Tale of Despereaux. It was very cute, but there were a few minor details i didnt like. W/e its a kids movie. Overall a good movie if you like cute kid movies (Which i do!) =)
We stayed in T.O. that night at a hotel, which was lovely. Then we took the 101 up to Santa Barbara and say some "old" friends (people I hadn't seen in about, oh, a week. lol) It was a short lived visit, however, as time was passing on and there was more ground to cover. We took the 154 though the mountains and saw lake Cachuma, and passed through Solvang, The Danish Village. It was a little tourist trappy, but it was neat. Unfortunately we got there a little late, and most of the shops were closed. But we got some interesting food (pics below). It was.... okay. I don't think I'll ever eat it again, but I'm glad I had the experience! yay adventure! We left solvang and got back to the 101 and got up to Pismo Beach. We stayed at a LOVELY resort that my family use to stay in all the time, called the Kon Tiki Inn. Check out the view from out room! It was shockingly vacant and reasonably priced.
No vacation is complete without a walk on the beach, so we got up and strolled down Pismo Beach, and it was so pretty! Then we checked out and continued allllll the way up the PCH to arrive in Monterey Bay. It was a pretty foggy and almost ethereal trip, but it was still very pretty! Then we cut in to get to my brothers place in Santa Clara. We stayed there for the night.
The next day, we took a day trip up to San Fransico. As per tradition, we spent a good deal of time in china town, were, as per tradition, i spent more money than I intended to. lol We bought a set of nifty chopsticks, a book on how to play Go (a favorite strategy game of mine, very old and popular in asia, that consists of placing white and black stones on a big grid. You've probably seen it before), A small chinese calligraphy learning kit (its so cute and small!) a 'tiger' pendant (my last one had broke, and it was highly upsetting, so i was very glad to find a replacement), and a bunch of tea from our favorite little hole in the wall tea place. Its very tastey! We went to go see the golden gate bridge, cuz Raj had never seen it (even thugh i told her it was really just a big orange brige). Then we cut through Golden Gate Park, and walked through the Japanese Tea Garden. It was very pretty, but i was sad because my camera ran out of juice, so no pictures of it. We made it back to santa clara for the night.
The next day we had a lazy morning, and then Feles for lunch. Again, a short lived visit, but it was good to see him again ^^. After lunch we hit the road for Sacramento. We spent the weekend with my friend from fresh/soph year Steph, and her friend Adam, who was gracious enough to host us. We had a great time, lots of goofing off, having fun, videogames (I know want a PS3 for the sole purpose of playing LIttle Big Planet. Its like crack. Oh yeah, also i want final fantasy, my OTHER crack. lol) On saturday afternoon, we visited my friend Sabrina (also in Sac) and played catch up with her over sushi! yum! On sunday Steph, Adam, Raj and I went to a small local anime convention (my first!) It was interesting. I drooled over all the cos players, and it was really inspiring to get back into costuming and arts and crafts and stuff. It was weird though, because I really dont know that much about anime at all, so I was a little in the dark some. lol. It was still fun though! That night we hauled back to Santa Clara.
On Monday we caught a flight from San Jose to Seattle, were I am spending the week visiting family (I have alot of relatives up here). it's been a nice relaxing time so far, pretty laid back. Yesterday was mostly just hanging out and eating. (It's a shame I dont really like seafood at all, with the exception of sushi). At night, my aunt (with whom we are staying) convinced me to go rowing on her Dragon Boat. It's a big 20-person canoe. There was only about 8 or 9 of us though, so it was pretty challenging, but it was a really cool experience to go rowing at night on Washington Lake. The view wasnt quite as spectacular as it usually is, i guess, because it was still pretty foggy. None the less, it was a very neat night! I'm glad I did it, even though im slightly sore in my back this morning (my aunt says that means you were doing it right! lol) I think we might end up going again on Saturday, if we're around; my mom really wants to go.
Today we're trying to get everyone out the door to go see the Space Needle and some other sight seeing!
((GTG, pics coming soon!))
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