seal refuge

We went to the bluffs in Carpinteria with Matt & Glenna for a little Saturday adventure. There's a seal refuge out there that I had been wanting to go to so I was really excited. We saw a few seals in the water but I wanted to get closer to them so I swam out to this little rocky island just off the beach. I tried to get a closer look at this seal I saw but Zack starting getting nervous and asked me to come back. As I was trying to get back in the water to swim over I stepped on something sharp and a rock got stuck in my foot and it started bleeding. Cool, let's just attract all of the sharks. Anyways, that was really fun. We explored the rest of the beach then went to Padaro Beach Grill for lunch. It is the cutest place I've ever seen, not to mention delish.

 crummy pic, but there's one of the seals. what a cutie

glenna's picture- i love it

glenna's picture

 twiiiins

4th of July

We started out the day at East Beach Grill eating pancakes with Andrew, Kristen & baby Jaxon. MMM it was soo good! Then Zack and I grabbed my surfboard and went out to Ledbetter Beach. The sky was kind of dark from the marine layer, so that made the water look dark and I just felt a little sketched out about it all. So instead of getting in I climbed up onto this huge rock wall and took pictures of Zack surfing. He had so much fun out there. After I walked out to were the waves were breaking and swam around for a little bit. It didn't take long before I was frozeeen.

Then we went up Mission Canyon with Matt and Glenna to this hiking trail they found online. It was soo beautiful! We were looking for these pools/waterfalls but we couldn't find them and it seemed like a lot of other hikers were in the same boat as us. So we hiked up as high as we could go before the trail broke off into fire truck roads. We figured it was a good turn around spot. After we hiked back down to the car we went to the gas station for rockstars... because we are really healthy like that. By this point we were almost late for the Bartlett pool party BBQ so we rushed home and changed into some regular clothes.

There were a lot of people at the Bartlett's. The Boden family came along with the Van Noys :) We swam in the pool, ate chips and salsa then indulged in Jim's delishh dinner. It was really fun. Zack and I were so determined not to eat dessert but there were brownies, ice cream and laceys (the best trader joes cookies) soo it didn't take long for us to cave in.

  After we stuffed ourselves we all went to the Goleta firework show. Before they started Jim told us some of his classic baller stories from when he was younger. We love all of his stories. The fireworks were pretty good! They played lots of cheesy America songs during them, but I love cheesy. It was all fun and romantic being cuddled up with Zack during the fireworks :) I love him so much. This has been one of my favorite 4th of July's so far.

After fireworks we went to In N Out with Matt & Glenna

standy land

Disneyland!!! a.k.a. disney line & standy land. Jess, Nikole, Stephen & I all went to this magical place on their last day in town. It was SO fun! Radiator Springs, the new Cars land in CA Adventure was finally open. Awww it was so cool, not to mention their new race car ride is one of my new favorites!! After 14 hours of amazingness (I think we did every single ride in both parks) my feet were screaming so my lovely sweetheart picked me up and drove me home :) (Zack drove 3 hours to pick me up since I rode to Disneyland with everyone and then turned around and drove another 3 hours home for me.) Greatest husband award! We did however get to share some delicious pretzel dogs in Downtown Disney together before the trek home. It was a great day! PS this was the first time in probably 15 years that I did Splash Mt aaaaand the first time I've ridden Grizzly Rapids.... ummm why you may ask have I been denying myself these amazing water rides?? Well because of my freakin afro hair, but no more of that! They were soo fun :) especially after dark. 

Aww I love this place.

nikole's photo

nikole's photo

 nikole's photo