Mom and Dad got in late Thursday night. Friday morning we had breakfast at Bottega Louie, a cute French Bistro. Delicious! I had a shoe dilemma, so I was 5 minutes (if even that) late meeting them at their hotel. When I got there, dad was talking to some guy. Surprise, surprise. He introduced the guy to me as his best friend from high school. Yeah right! There are a million areas to stay in Los Angeles and a million hotels to choose from in each area. It was legit, though. He hadn't seen the guy (Kevin) for 15 years, but they recognized each other. Crazy!!! After breakfast we headed to Santa Monica. It was windy and chilly, but no rain! We wandered around and ate lunch on the pier. Friday night we went to the Lakers game. So much fun!!! They ended up winning, but didn't deserve to. They didn't play at all until all the sudden Kobe decided to tie the game to go into overtime. Then they actually (kind of) played. It's kind of sad when Kobe only has 16 points at half time and the majority of those were free throws! Steve Nash, however, wasn't too good with his free throws.
Saturday we headed up to Santa Barbara. It's just beautiful there! I had been there with Uncle Bill and Dana, but neither Mom nor Dad had been. We started our day with whale watching. It was also windy and chilly and before we even got on, the captain warned us that we might not see a whale in the current sea conditions and could refund our ticket. He was essentially begging us not to go. We didn't end up seeing a whale, but we saw two dolphins which are apparently a form of a whale. Whatever. Since we didn't see a whale, we got our tickets stamped to come back again for a free excursion. We stamped our tickets and had the genius idea to sell them online. It was a great idea until the boat started on fire that afternoon!!! Not even 2 hours after we got off!! I guess people were more upset than we were about not seeing a whale! (Link to the article http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=110307.)
After our unsuccessful whale watching excursion, we spent the rest of the day wine tasting. The wind died down and it warmed up a lot, so it was a beautiful day! There's an area with a bunch of wine tasting rooms you can walk to. Perfect!
I had a great weekend with my parents. I wish they could stay for more than a couple days at a time. I also wish I could see them more than once every few months.
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