VACATION!!!! April 18, 2011

Can you tell I’m excited lol….

It couldn’t have come a moment too soon. I had a crazy busy week followed by a busy weekend. It was fun though. Saturday I went to the Urban Ladies Brunch. It was a very cool time to hang out with some neat ladies and just hang out and relax. Plus I got to hang out with baby Elizabeth (my friend Adrienne’s baby) I took her at the end and didn’t give her back for almost 40 minutes haha. Let me tell you, if you need help destressing/relaxing just hold a baby and it will do the trick.

After that I headed to the cafe to finish my blog on www.lifeaturban.com titled Duh…Winning (that’s my plug to go check it out haha). Then I went to the pool for about an hour with friends. Which was fabulous since we were having 80 degree weather Then I am missing my best friend’s birthday this week since I’m going to be on vacation so I had to make it special. We went to dinner at Barrio Star in San Diego and it was delicious!!! Such a cool little place. She loved her gift too which was sparkly pink nail polish because if you knew Jess you’d know that anything that is pink or sparkles she’ll love also I found a shirt with the main lyrics to Queen’s Bicycle which let me tell you was not an easy task. Then to top it off I got tickets to Mixtape an offbroadway musical revue that was fantastic!! Let me tell you I was laughing so hard I was crying within five minutes of the start of the show and it just got better. If you have a chance to get to San Diego before it’s done in the middle of June it would be worth it

Needless to say all that kept me out until almost 11pm. Now if you did not know I have to move at the end of the month which is crazy. The hard part of it all is that I am on vacation a full week I come back and have work all week and then have to move. So I’ve been frantically trying to pack as much as possible this whole week. With that being the main focus I left packing for the trip to last minute which is actually no different then normal, but yeah it’s not the easiest thing to do when half your stuff is already packed.

Then there was a glitch with the car where they told me I’d need a credit check to pay with a debit card. Then when I went in this morning they told me that they didn’t just hold 400.oo but they held 400.00 on top of the rental which would put my total over 700.00 which just isn’t acceptable. Luckily I went in ready to fight this morning, but decided to just lay on the sugar instead and be as sweet as I could be. They guy waived my credit check and only charged me the price of the rental and did not add anything else as a hold. What’s great is that I knew God had my back because even the smallest detail was covered. When I went to pick out my car there was only two ford focus’s which I’ve heard bad things about plus I’ve driven one and hated it, then there was a Suzuki which I refuse to drive and finally a Hyundai accent which is a car I love, but it was in red. With the length of my trip I just couldn’t take the risk of a red car. So I went to tell the guy I’d take a Ford but thought to double check and make sure there wasn’t something else in a different section. Glad I did too because he was like yeah that’s it except for that blue hyundai over there that got parked in the wrong spot. So yay!! I got the blue hyundai which is kinda nostalgic of when I had my own little blue hyundai

We had a great service at Urban this morning with five salvations! So good and then I grabbed some coffee and hit the road. What a beautiful drive!! I did wonder if there were a lot of accidents though because of people looking at the great views as they drive The only bummer was driving through LA but that was to be expected. Everytime I drive through it it just solidifies even more so how much I dislike the place.

Despite stop and go traffic in LA I made great time and was in Santa Barbara by 4:30p. My hotel is super cute! As soon as I figure out how to upload photos onto the computer with my new camera I’ll post some. In the meantime you can google, The Presidio Santa Barbara and check it out. I have the room with the roses on the wall. As soon as I got here I changed to go on a run. The super nice gal at the front desk had recommended that I go see the mission, and told me where some other cute places were thinking that I had more than just a few hours today to explore. Luckily by deciding to go for a run I killed two birds with one stone. I got in a 6.5 mi run in and was able to see the mission, the downtown shops, ran through a earth fair thing with live music, saw some cute old churches, some adorable older homes with beautiful gardens in the outer neighborhoods, the seaman’s pier and the beach! All in a matter of a couple hours and I took pictures!

My final event of the evening is dinner alone at a restaurant. Which is where I am writing this blog. I was going to walk here, but my mom wasn’t happy with that idea and even though I am grown I try not to cause her more worry than it’s worth so I decided to respect her wishes. Then I thought I would order it to go, but that kinda defeats the purpose of my independent me-cation so here I sit. Had a delicious mint lamb burger and now I’m just blogging. It wasn’t so bad, though like 3 different people asked me how many were in my party when I walked up and all had a look of surprise on their faces when I told them just me. The saving grace was the free wifi because I got to use my computer and have dinner without feeling that bad about it since it was too dark in here to read. Which worked perfect since I have been without internet for a week now at home!

Anywho tomorrow is part deux of my journey up the coast to see the fam. I’m excited for it though, I absolutely love driving. It’s weird but for me it is one of the most relaxing things. Plus I get to sing at the top of my lungs without having to worry about what anyone else things hahaha.

Well it is time for me to pay my bill and go in search of something sweet to end the day Look at me two blogs in two weeks haha, but I don’t want to jinx it

Live Life Extraordinary,

Alayna

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