Happy Monday!!

Alternate title: Santa Barbara - Part 4

 

So this happened on the evening of C's birthday.  We went down to State Street (its the main street in downtown Santa Barbara full of restaurants, bars and shops) for dinner and then decided to walk around for awhile.

 

After walking a few blocks we came across this.  A homeless man standing in the middle of the street with all of his clothes piled up in front of him. I have no idea what he was doing, he just stood their silently.

 

Needless to say, we got some good laughs out of it!!

 

 

 

Eventually the cops came and took him away, but it sure was funny to see the reactions of the drivers trying to cross the intersection or turn.

 

I hope your monday is equally funny!

 

(Oh yeah, C has surgery again tomorrow morning to get the 5 pins taken out of his wrist.  Please keep him in your prayers!)

 

Any HTML pros out there?

Ok girls, I have what I *think* is a great idea for a swap/mini gift type of thing…..but I am CLUELESS when it comes to HTML!!!  I would have no idea where to start.

That being said, is anyone good with HTML that maybe wants to co-host with me?
 
I don’t want to give too much away, but I think this would be really fun!

Email me at sleepysinglegirl@blogspot.com or leave a comment and we can chat J

Santa Barbara - Part 3

Wine Tasting Day and C's birthday!

32....what an old man! Just kidding.  I'm right behind him :) I let him decide what he wanted to do on his birthday and he choose to make it our wine tasting day.

After a lovely breakfast at Denny's and a leisure time getting ready, we headed up the mountain to the San Ynez Valley.  This area had TONS if winerys!  No it's Napa, but its close.

He drives like this sometimes because his arm gets numb.  I can't wait until he can get rid of that darn cast!

 

On our way.  The was not the safest picture haha.

 

First we stopped in the awesome little town called Solvang.  It is a little Dutch town. Seriously, all of the buildings were so cute!

 

In C's football games they always do this thing on the scoreboard screens about watching his "fro grow" if the crowd cheers really loud.  This mirror made both of our fro's grow!

 

C was feeding the soldier his snow cone...

 

We were walking by a little clock shop and looking at all of the cool cuckoo clocks (yes, I just googled that spelling).   I was just curious how much something like that would cost so we went it. I immediately spotted an adorable Dr. Seuss clock and  told C that I thought that was be such a cute theme for a nursery some day. He looked at me and said, "Should we get it?"  Of course I turned to mush and agreed.  We now have not one, but two Dr. Seuss clocks for our future babies nursery. I am going to have to start collecting. I never did find out how much a cuckoo clock costs!

 

After exploring Solvang for a while we headed to our first winery, Rusack. We got to try 7 different wines and keep an nice wine glass for $9 each.  The landscape was gorgeous and we sat on this grassy lawn with a bunch of snacks (brie cheese, bread, dry salami and our fruits from the fruit stand). Just beautiful.

 

I have never been wine tasting, so I wasn't sure of the protocol. Do you sit there and sip your tasters for awhile or do you zip through them and move on? C was kind of sipping and enjoying, so I went with that. We spent an hour at the first winery.  I suppose that is a sufficient amount of time.  I would have rather spent less time and visited more places, but oh well. It was still fun.

 

 

We found a "C sized" bottle of wine at our second stop, the Sunstone winery.

 

We didn't buy any wine at the second stop, but this place had the most amazing balsamic vinegars and flavored olive oils to try.  We came home with a chocolate vinegarette, so tasty!

 

After that we stopped at one more place in town called Presidio. It was more like a bar that you could do wine tasting at, but it was open later than the rest so we had to stop in!

 

I wish we would have started earlier.  I thought we were going to go to several more places, but they all closed at 4 or 5pm.  Bummer.  Now I know for next time!

 

Have you ever been wine tasting?

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After a few months of thinking about it and telling myself I would do it "this weekend" I FINALLY set up sponsorship on my blog (this last weekend of course)! Since I had some awesome buttons made, I really couldn't put it off any longer.

If you'd like to sponsor me, then great!  I'm pretty much up for anything at this point (guest posts, giveaways, many mentions) so if you'd like to sponsor then just let me know.  I'll work with you on what you'd like to get out of it :)

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Santa Barbara - Part 2

As soon as we pulled into the city of Santa Barbara we saw a sign for the Santa Barbara Zoo.  We looked at each other and thought why not!  I googled the zoo and with a price of $14 for entry we went for it.  The zoo here in Phoenix is more expensicve, so it was nice to see it a little cheaper.

 

It was a gorgeous day and we saw some fun animals, including these awesome elephant butts!

 

Some pretty birds :)

This anteater was on a war path.  He kept making the same determined circle around his enclosure and he was quite fast too!  It was hard to get a good pic!
 

These animals freak me out.  The Capybara. They are the largest rodent in the world. Gross. They remind me of The Princess Bride movie for some reason.  I think in the movie they were huge rats, but close enough!

 

Monkey!

 

Me monkeyin around!

I love the look on this lions face. He was loving life!

 

Its hard to tell with the lighting but this is a tiny fox.  I'd say he was about the size of kitten! I just loved the way he was laying out in the sun.

Giraffes are one of my favorite animals.  I stood there for quite awhile watching them.  They are such unique animals!

I loved the Meerkat in the middle of the photo. He just laid there flat on the ground while all of the others worked around him. It's like he had just given up!

 

Gorilla....need I say more!  He was the animal I was most excited to see :)

 

We came around a corner and there was a much better view of the elephants, thankfully!

 

The guy is a snow leopard.  Such a cool animal. Can you see how long his tail is!? The info board says they use their tails as scarves when in the snow.  So neat. Honeslty though, he looked a little malnourised.  It made me feel really bad.  I'm thinking the heat is not his thing.

Turtles!  C loves turtles, so we stood there for awhile.  These little guys were seriously "running" around their enclosure.  I've never seen turtles move like that before.  All three of them were constantly moving around!

 

Pretty flamingos :)

 

One of these things is not like the other...

 

The last "animal" at the zoo.....C! He was pretending to be some sort of monkey I believe.

 

Next up, wine tasting!