Catching Up

It's been a really busy two weeks, which is why I haven't blogged much. My aunt from Chicago and one of my cousins was out visiting for a week. It was so much fun and SO nice to have them out here. It's my mom's side of the family, which I'm closest with. It was just busy spending a weekend, evenings, and lunches with them. I wish they could have stayed longer though and I know they feel the same way.

What else is new...just got back from getting a haircut. I went for a short bob again. It'll be easy to take care of during our trips this summer.

Work's been busy - another reason I haven't been able to blog. This next week will probably be busy too. We're working on a possible new show, but that's all I can really say about that.

I'm just so glad it's a 3 day weekend. We decided not to do Monterey cause we have a lot of upcoming travel the next 2 months. Maybe we'll go over Labor Day (if we're still here). And no, no movement on that, I'm just trying to stay positive. Oh, but on that subject, did you hear about the 4.7 earthquake here last Sunday and the aftershock on Tuesday? This place should be declared a disaster area. We've gotta get outta here.

Ok, that's all for now. Enjoy your long weekend and Go Cavs!

Cleveland Rocks!

I was halfway through a blog about bumper stickers (sounds exciting, doesn't it?) when I saw this short video. It's about my lovely hometown. We'll, not good old Cuyahoga Falls, but the bigger city: Cleveland. Ah, so funny. I need to send this to my family and friends from home now.

I heard our Hawaii song last night

The whole time we were in Hawaii we heard the Jason Mraz, "I'm Yours" song a couple times a day (I love the scenery in the video). It seemed like every time we got in the car, the song would be on the radio. It will always remind me of Hawaii and every time I hear it, it makes me happy. And slightly sad cause I wish we were back in Hawaii...soon, hopefully.

It's funny how a song can instantly remind you of a trip or time or location or person. The other song that reminds me of Hawaii is what we called "These islands are amazing". We heard that the whole trip too. It's much more original Hawaiian. The pictures in this video are even better. I think the beach at 4:16 is where we were at for sunset on my birthday...that was one heck of a good day.

What Would be Most Relaxing?

We've been torn about traveling over Memorial Day weekend. We don't have too many long weekends to travel and we hate to waste one (hopefully one of the last in LA) sitting at home when there really are amazing places to visit in CA. On the other hand, we've been needing a three day weekend for months and really want time to RELAX.

Mostly, I think we're debating Monterey and Paso Robles. We still need to fulfill our life goal of staying in each room at The Old St. Angela Inn! I called the Inn and got Diane and she said business hasn't been good and they're offering low rates even for the holiday weekend. I felt so bad. I tried to offer hope that the summer will hopefully pick up and then things will get better and people will start traveling again soon. It makes me want to go there even more now so we can give them business. They still have the Crow's Nest, Bayview, Newport and Nantucket open for the weekend. Crow's Nest or Bayview would be great. Too bad the Gilday's are busy that weekend. One thing's for sure: If we go to Monterey, we're not going on the Carmel wine trolley!

Then there's Paso Robles wine country. We were just there last November, but it was so nice and pretty and we only just scratched the surface seeing all the wineries. We just opened a great bottle of wine last weekend that we got there and it makes me want to visit. It's a shorter drive than Monterey, but it doesn't have The Old St. Angela Inn there.

I suppose Monterey would be relaxing too. Walk to the beach or the Pacific Grove main drag or just sit at the Inn and eat obscene amounts of good food. Hmmm.

Glad We're Not on Qantas!

Did you hear the story about real life snakes on a plane in Australia? Twelve baby pythons were making a trip within Australia on Qantas. When they landed, there were only 8 snakes in the bin. They weren't able to find the rogue snakes so they had to fumigate the plane.

Scary.