Santa Barbara and Wine Tours

We spent Memorial Day at Paradise Cove Beach in Malibu.....super fun! The next day we drove up to Santa Barbara and had lunch at Brophy Bros. Oyster Bar at the marina. Then we headed up to Los Olivos and went to a few different wineries. We ended our day by getting dinner at a ramshackle Mexican restaurant (that was frequented by Julia Childs) called La Super Rica Taqueria.



Our first stop was the gorgeous Sunstone Winery.


Our second stop--Zaca Mesa Winery




Our final winery--Fess Parker (for you Sideways fans, this was the fictional Frass Canyon Winery)--Fess Parker played Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett in the old Western movies....then he moved to Santa Barbara and opened a winery.

Olivia and I trying on the coonskin caps.



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Greystone Mansion (and Aaron's first poopy diaper change)

We spent a fabulous afternoon at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. It has been featured in many movies and now is a public park. Olivia and I gathered a picnic in the morning at the Studio City Farmer's Market and then we went to Sprinkles Cupcakes and got dessert!


There were a lot of stairs--it became necessary to evenly distribute the weight of the baby

The gorgeous mansion

Olivia and Kai at our picnic site

Aaron and I with a gorgeous view of the L.A skyline







A turtle pond on the property

Aaron picked a turtle up from the pond and got it out for Owen to check out.




What do we have in here??

Oh boy.....this is worse than we thought

Aaron used about 5 wipes during the diaper change.....Olivia was trying to ration the wipes

After originally putting the diaper on backwards, Aaron finally figured out which side Elmo goes on

Success!!

Universal CityWalk

One night after dinner we decided to take a walk to Universal Studios (less than a mile from our house) and stroll around CityWalk.


Swapping stories.




Whoa--look at all the lights!!!

The Schons and Van Voorhis' Do Hollywood

We had an awesome long Memorial Day weekend with some of our best friends, Kai and Olivia Schon, and their 10-month-old son Owen from Cheyenne, Wyoming. Enjoy some pictures of our weekend!


We were trying to be Shirley Temple.

Look how tiny her feet were!!

"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"--Marilyn Monroe

Arnold (aka The Governator)

Graumann's Chinese Theater

Point Lobos State Park/Big Sur

Can't see them closely--but here are some otters in the kelp off Point Lobos--they were everywhere in Monterey Bay!

Robert Louis Stevenson was inspired to write Treasure Island while at Point Lobos Beach in Big Sur.



Lots of seals resting on the rocks off Point Lobos.
Mama seal and her baby on a rock right off the beach in Point Lobos.





Bixby Bridge over PCH in Big Sur


View from Nepenthe
The view from our table--gorgeous!!
Nepenthe Restaurant in Big Sur off PCH