i'm still in ca for this belated blog...

After a bit of a hiatus on the blog… I am back. I haven’t finished my ca trip so I’ll start there. On sat, sarah and I woke up and went to pick up some bagels to bring to catherine and matt. It was so wonderful to see catherine, meet matt, rosie and finally meet miss lucy whom I have read so much about on her blog. She is such a wonderful little girl full of giggles and big big smiles. Rosie is a super sweet dog who just wants to be a part of everything, but right now she has a cone on her head b/c she blew out her leg and had to have surgery. I had no idea this could happen to dogs, but what do I know?! It was so fun to catch up with another scrippsie and also perhaps meet a future scrippsie! Catherine is such a wonderful mommy and you can see the love in her eyes for this adorable little girl. It’s so sweet…it almost makes me want to have one… wait, what?! Did I just write that?! Anyways, the time to leave came way too soon, but I did manage to get a lot of great pictures and you can see those below.







From catherine’s house, we went to the beach where we met up with aj, his gf Rachael (who I’d met when they were here in Chicago last year) and her brother ari. The beach was beautiful and warm and sunny! Though I did hear from a couple of the ca folks that it was a little chilly. I couldn’t have been happier and was sad that the beach time had to come to an end and I wouldn’t get to spend anymore time there. Rachael came up with the idea to go and get food and since sarah and I had just had bagels that morning, we were game for some grub. We went to the apple pan which I’d never heard of, but has apparently been around forever. If you have the chance, I highly suggest going! It is a burger style counter place and at like 330 or 4 in the afternoon is was pretty well packed and even a wait. Luckily, we got there just in time and didn’t have to wait to order our burgers and fries. Delicious. Then ari wanted to try the pie so I had to be his partner in crime and we devoured the apple pie and ice cream. You can barely see the remnants in the picture.






That night sarah and i took it easy b/c we were doing the Redondo beach 10k the next morning and we were going to have to get up rather early. So we had a very nice night on the couch watching girl movies and vegging. I love those kind of nights! I really have no idea what movie we watched as I’d never heard of it before, but I really liked it… sarah, what was it? In addition to our loafing around on the couch, we made a trek to sarah’s favorite taco place where they know her ridiculously well and they won’t let her pay for her food. Seriously. Now, where can a girl find something like that here in Chicago?! After our bellies were full and we were good and tired, we went to bed.