I’m back in California after 5 days of luscious relaxation. If there is anything better than being surrounded by your favourite people out on the water with good music and tasty drinks, I haven’t found it yet.
They say you can’t buy happiness, but you can buy tickets to Montana in the summer, and that’s pretty much the same thing.
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| Hail storm |
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| hydrate or die |
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| sister sister |
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| please sir, i’d like s’more |
We went on our first trip with my sister and her husband a few weekends ago, we were only in Vegas for a couple of nights but we had so much fun. I hadn’t seen them since Thanksgiving so it was great to catch up, and hang out, just the four of us.
We didn’t win any money, but we did some shopping, dancing, lots of drinking, and ate at some really cool restaurants. I even tried calamari (it’s gross) and encountered a magical chocolate fountain (it was amazing).
Vegas has always been one of my favourite places, when I was little I always more excited to go to Vegas than Disneyland, I just loved the lights and the environment and the showgirl costumes. Now, with our family so spread out, Vegas is kind of a central place for us all to meet up and be together, so it will always have a special place in my heart, no matter how much of my money it steals.
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| I am obsessed with mermaids. I will never grow out of this. |
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| the mermaid tank at the Silverton |
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| Siegfriend and Roy’s secret garden |
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| beatlemania |
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| hogs and heifers |
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| thousands of dollars worth of bras. seriously. |
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| fremont |
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| old school slot machines that give you actual coins, soooo much better. except his hands were black from touching all the nickels |
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| this guy had actual magical powers. sooo talented |
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| i wanted to try every single one of these |
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| yum |
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| supper at lakeside, amazing food |
We booked our tickets for Fourth of July in Montana, I am way too excited.
Boating, swimming, margaritas, twisted tea, smores, dill pickle dip, early morning runs with my mom, goldfish races, dancing with bearded, over-alled men (is there any other kind?) at Homesteaders and huckleberry cheesecake blizzards with extra cheesecake, and doing all of these things with my most favourite people.
But mostly, this:
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| He will eat your face |
He just could not be less excited to be wearing that. But, safety first. And by that I mean of course, safety for the rest of us, because if he falls into the water (aka is thrown in by my dad) and you happen to accidentally get between him and shore, or getting back in the boat, he will scratch you bald headed.
Can not wait. Only 3 more weeks.
I haven’t actually unpacked from my trip to Hawaii yet (it’s been a very lazy week) and I’m off to Las Vegas tomorrow. I am so excited to see my older sister, we haven’t seen each other since Thanksgiving, so even in the unlikely event that we spend the whole weekend trapped in an elevator at the Wynn, it will be a great weekend.
I was feeling a bit guilty about our whirlwind month of travel, so far in May we’ve spent a weekend in L.A, and then 10 days in Hawaii, but I’m really only going to Vegas to see my sister, so I think it’s definitely worth it.
I just read this article about how to buy happiness in the LA Times, and it’s making me feel better. Thirty years from now, I won’t remember the Memorial Day weekend that I stayed at home and relaxed, but I will definitely remember my first solo (besides our husbands) trip with my big sister.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
My parents came in to visit us for a couple of days last week, and it was really fun showing them around. I tend to try to pack as many things as possible into when they visit, I figure if they have lots of fun they are more likely to come back and visit sooner, right?
It was my dad’s birthday so my mom got us all tickets to the Sharks game (they lost, damn you Burns) and then we went to Capitola and tried almost every margarita on the boardwalk. We had supper at a really great restaurant in Aptos called Cafe Rio, I highly recommend it. I don’t even eat seafood, but I ordered salmon (since I’m trying to be more adventurous) and it was A.MAZ.ING.
After that we went wine tasting, had lunch at BJ’s and did some beer tasting, and then did some sight seeing before we went to a little town called Port Costa and went to The Warehouse Cafe, which is now definitely top 5 for my favourite bars in the world, and is certainly my favourite bar in California.
It’s a very eclectic mix of people and decor, they have a life sized polar bear, a bartender named Gina who is a crazy Italian in the most endearing way possible, and beers from over 450 different countries, and they ONLY serve doubles. All of this located right on the bay, in a run down old shipping warehouse that you can wander around in for ages and continue to find something cool around every corner. As my Dad said, “It’s like a place from a different time.”
We finished up with supper at Texas Roadhouse and then went home to eat the banana cream pie I made for my dad’s birthday cake. It was a really wonderful couple of days, and I can’t wait until they come back again. Sadly, my phone broke right before they got there, so I didn’t get to take as many pictures as I would have liked, but I did get a few.
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| ominoussss |
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| love them |
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| I don’t know if I could drink all of that, but I would like the opportunity to try |
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| derek’s new buddy |
I came home from supper to find this package from my sister:
A cute new shirt and shorts, VS bikini bottoms, cookie corner cookies, kettle corn, Benefit bronzer, Diorshow mascara, new perfume, a hand drawn picture of me that time I was in a movie, and lots of other goodies. One of the best and most thoughtful gifts I’ve ever gotten.
loveliness. 