Vegas in Spring

This blog post will basically describe the events that occurred in Las Vegas, but I really won't go into a tremendous amount of details. What happens in Vegas well it stays in Vegas...

Thursday

Left in the mid-day with Linh to get to Las Vegas in order to make the blue man show.

Went to Barstow for the first time, didn't really seem that interesting. Along the way I got to see a crazy vehicle accident.

There was a big rig that got completely destroyed.

I honestly don't remember if we ate before or after the show, but honestly we just grabbed food at the food court.

The show was interesting as there was a lot of audience participation. Including a crazy amount of toilet paper that was used at the end.

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The Blue Man were able to pose for pictures at the end and they did some hilarious poses.

We stayed at the Hard Rock hotel.

Trip to Santa Maria

For those who aren't aware of the wonders of the Central Coast this is one for the record books. This trip was arranged by Joelle and myself as we haven't seen one of our friends/former supervisors in a long time. We leave early Saturday morning and prepare to have a great drive on the way there. It is amazing that this is the first of many trips that Timmerie(my car) has taken. Well it is kind of cheat to blog about the future trips as the haven't happened yet, if I write this in chronological order.

We arrive at Emily's place in Santa Maria where it is a nice condo. Un

fortunatley I don't have any pictures of the condo as I was sneezing and trying to s

urvive by injecting myself with Benadryl. Ok maybe I wasn't exactly injecting it into myself, but I wanted to :-P. Once another one of my friends, Navi, arrived we decided to get a dinner/lunch thing at a steak place. Apparently Santa Maria is known for its tri-tip. I am really not sure why though...So a few of us got the open face tri-tip sandwich, but I went with an open face steak sandwich. You tell me which one looks better...

It was a great linner (lunch/dinner). What else is there to do in Central Coast after a nice meat lunch? That would be wine tasting, yes wine tasting from the individual who never really goes wine tasting/drinks alcohol. We went to the Laetitia Vineyard & Winery, where there were a variety of wines being sampled. While some will recommend going from a white-->red-->a desert, I pretty much went to the desert and had a Muscat. Tasted like oranges and it was very syrupy. Much better than a port.

Afterwards we ended going to see a mo

vie, Date Night starring Tina Fey and Michael Scott! I have to say, after watching this movie and seeing the saviors of NBC in a movie, Tina can act circles around Steve, no contest. I think this is one of the reasons why I really started to get into 30 Rock. Sadly the day ended there as while Joelle and I were off the next day, Emily and

Jacque were unable to stay out crazy late due to work. Joelle and I went back to the room to prepare for the journey back.

On the way back to Los Angeles, we decided to stop in two locations, Solvang and Santa Barbara. At Solvang we walked around and saw some random shops as well as a hat store.

There wasn't too much do at Solvang. It was than time to go to Santa Barbara. This entire trip had been rather gloomy, but when we got to SB, it was like the clouds decided to give us a break.We were able to try some of great items called ebel skivers or fried pancake balls. Its amazing that the majority of stuff to do every where it is consume food.

We went to a seafood restaurant that Joelle had been to in the past. Pretty good, but I still have to say that The Original Fish Company in Los Alamitos still rules the school.

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Got back home safely and I have to say that the few things I learned. I am really allergic to cats and that central coast weather is really gloomy and it can rain a lot...

Trip to Arizona Day 2

So this blog is about 7 months late, but I have decided to blog to the best of my ability the adventures I have had the last few months so I will not have a back log of blogs in October.

The day began with waking up in the hotel. Interesting enough the night before was filled with the hotel being not that great. We had these sheets which did not cover more than half

of the bed. The movie that was playing while everyone was falling asleep was Why Did I Get Married. It was alright, but I swear Janet Jackson lo

oks like Michael Jackson...maybe because they are related, but it was still weird. The weekend was also the same time Wrestlemania was going on in Arizona, so there were a lot of people going to either spring training or wrestling. Maybe I should go see Wrestlemania next year...just a thought.

We arrived at Tempe Diablo Stadium to watch the Angels vs Clevel

and Indians. The day still very warm and not a cloud in the sky. Luckily this gam

e was somewhat in the shade with terms of seating so it wasn't extremely hot. The Angels didn't do that well and lost. After the game it was time to hit the road.

The drive back is somewhat interesting as the sun set was pretty cool. Jessica was able to take some cool sun set photos.

Interesting work related thing that I was able to see, were some

trucks that appeared to be heading to the ports for the whole Prop 1B program.

So overall it was a great trip and an interesting experience outside of California. Will I be back again in the state of Arizona to watch baseball? I would say yes, but I will probably also look at other teams as well.