travel

Zack & Ina at Full Belly Farm

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We made it up to Sacramento last night and continued the drive out to Full Belly Farm after lunch. 
Our driver think he is cool. 

This tower is apparently a big deal, so I had to take a photo of it.

First sign, we made it!

We got there early and had plenty of time to set up camp and relax before the party started.
Camping weddings are awesome!

Some wardrobe adjustments and we are good to go!

Very awesome handcrafted signs everywhere! Everyone had to take photos!

Sweet dinner and then dance all night!

Roadtripping

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We are heading up to NorCal for a farm wedding. The big question was which shoes to wear for the party. I settled for Vans. Black Vans works for everything!

Roadtripping

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We are heading up to NorCal for a farm wedding. The big question was which shoes to wear for the party. I settled for Vans. Black Vans works for everything!

Headquarters Campground

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It turned out that the very awesome campsite we found was not actually a designated campsite, so a ranger came by this morning and asked us to move our tents. We got a spot a little further up, but it wasn’t as cosy, so the boys went scavenging and found a spot at a campground just down the road.

I didn’t really want to move campgrounds at first, it seemed like a hassle to pack everything up, but I didn’t wanna be queen about it so I just kept quiet and let someone else make the decision.
It turned out the move was great! No more surround sound from the several large parties that was playing loud music from 8am to 3am. The music was really starting to do my head in.
We set up new camp and had lunch. Holy crap, these people brought the whole fridge with them! It’s only 4 of us yo!

The new campground also had running water, so we could wash up and cool down without having to run down to the river.

We headed into “town” to have an ice cream and pick up new ice for our food and beverages and got back ready to jump in the river.

After an hour or so of play, we saw this thing swimming by and declared the party being over, so we headed back to the tents for a nap and dinner.

Late night snack; grilled banana!

San Diego

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The troublemakers are here! We started off with road tripping to San Diego for the day!

The universe didn’t want me to be so excited so this happen.

Now I have to figure out what to do next with this phone. I have not had much luck with it.
First thing first though, let’s get something to eat!

I like San Diego, it has a more chill atmosphere than Los Angeles, and the buildings look cool.

We didn’t stay long in San Diego and took the coast home, stopping in Laguna Beach for ice cream.

Homebound

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Heading back to Los Angeles today. My friend told me about the Busboy & Poets cafe so I went there for breakfast. The cafe was really cool! Great coffee and atmosphere. Food, not so good, but maybe I caught them on a bad day. 

It took me some 3 days, but I finally connected one and one and figured that the second flag that was waving around everywhere must be the DC state flag! I felt a little stupid when I figured that out.

I had plenty of time to wander around before I had to be by the bus stop to go to the airport – or at least so I thought… I had missed the little detail that the bus was stopping by the 7th St SW and not the 7th St NW. I had to run a few blocks and got there with a minute to spare. Hooray for traveling light!

Made it!

Washington D.C Day Two

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There’s a ton of free museums in Washington DC and everyone has their own favorite. People kept telling me to go to The Smithsonian, but The Smithsonian is actually about 20 different museums so when I got to DC I just walked around to see what seemed interesting. 
I decided I wanted to see those important documents that stated that “This is our country now, whoever was here before can bugger off!” – Also known as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. I figured they would be in the National Archives Museum.

There were no photos allowed, but I could not resist. They are in there!

Beer lunch, hell yeah! I miss these old Brit like, not dive like, pubs – I wish we had more of them in Los Angeles.

My feet were still super tired today from all the walking yesterday. I kept walking today, but a lot slower and with a lot of breaks. There’s always something to look at though, so that’s cool!

Memorials everywhere! The Jefferson Memorial;

The Cherry Blossom Festival started today, but it’s been so cold on the east coast so the blossoms were not out yet. This is all supposed to be pink… I’ll have to come back some other year to check them out.

Kind of knackered I felt it was time to head back, have a beer and fall asleep early, but then I walked by the National Museum of American History and felt I should pop my head in and see what it was all about.

They had the vey first Star Spangled Banner on display which was cool, but then I got to tired and fed up with America that I had to leave. A beer was definitely over due.

I figured one thing out over the past two days; if a building has pillars, it probably means it is important.

Washington D.C

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I got into Washington DC at 8am and it felt like I walked about 100 miles throughout the day. I started off with the Capitol Building. 

These two R’n’B singers win! They were recording a music video. I don’t think I need to do anymore sightseeing today, nothing will top this!

I heard you might be able to go inside, but I could not be bothered researching that, I felt there was so much to do anyway. Off to the Washington Monument I went.
“Off course the have to renovate it now, when I’m here” I thought as I saw it had turned into a construction site. I later learned it was damaged from the 5.8 earthquake in 2011. So, fair enough…

A glimpse of the White House, but I’ll get back to that later.

The Lincoln Memorial was crowded! A few busloads of school kids must just have arrived.

They had drained the Reflecting Pool, but I could still see some reflection!

I’ve always found the Lincoln Memorial a little creepy. Why does he have to be so huge like? Sitting on his throne looking out over the people.

After the creepy Lincoln, I headed over to Georgetown. The old part of town. I had made my research before hand and learned that Baked & Wired was the best place to find delicious baked goods. There were a huge line out the door when I arrived, and I got a little stressed and disappointed. All I could see was cupcakes. I’ve never been a big fan of cupcakes. I wanted a cream pie, not a stupid cupcake. I couldn’t find anything on the menu that really looked appealing to me, so I just grabbed a gluten free chocolate cupcake, that surprisingly was really good. Coffee was pretty good as well. As I had my coffee and cupcake I finally saw where they were hiding their pies – under the counter! What the hell!

I liked Georgetown a lot, super cute old buildings.

Washington DC has this awesome bike share system, you pay $7 for 24h and you get to use a bike as much as you want. There’s hubs all over the city where you can park your bike and pick up a new one. Brilliant system, I want Los Angeles to adapt this as well!

By 4pm I was already exhausted from all the walking, but I made it to the real reason I came to Washington DC. I had an appointment with Sweden.

After being laugh at by the Swedish ambassador due to my Justin Bieber haircut on the 5 year old documents, I made it out of there. The first beer of the day was way overdue!

I was gonna meet my friend at 7pm in Chinatown, 2.5 miles away from where I was. I was tired, but had plenty of time, so I kept walking.

I walked by the White House, the light from the sunset was really nice.

The White House seem a lot smaller than I was expecting. We have bigger houses than that in Los Angeles, haha!

I walked by the Capitol City Brewing Company. I had to stop in for a beer.

Back to Chinatown!

Off to Washington D.C

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I get to spend the weekend in Washington DC, pretty excited about that since I have never been.

I always have to have a pint of beer before boarding a plane. It helps me fall asleep before they even shut the doors.
I am supposed to be on a gluten free diet, but I can cheat while on vacation. This beer tasted so good!

Southbound

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After a couple of nights in San Francisco, it was time to drive back to Los Angeles. I wanted the kids to be a little exhausted so they wouldn’t have much energy left to fight in the backseat. I told them they’ll get $5 each if they ran up the hill and back.