I'm justifying the fact that I'm writing about the weekend on Monday
night because it's still technically my weekend; I had a 3-day weekend
and took COMPLETE advantage of it!
It was glorious.
Husband
and I went out in the Santa Barbara Harbor on Saturday! A couple weeks
ago we pretended to be tourists and grabbed a bunch of "what to do in
Santa Barbara" maps at the Visitor's Center downtown, and one of the
maps contained a coupon for a half-day whalewatching cruise. The weather
was beautiful, and we had nothing better to do, so why not?
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| I tried to look nautical. I regretted the lack of a sweatshirt later. Facepalm! |
We
saw our home from a completely different vantage point (just as
beautiful!), but since no whales made an appearance, we got a free
voucher to go on their boat again. Sa-weet!
The trip
was so worth it, even without the whales. And we got to cruise with
Dolphins and surf the giant boat through the waves (Husband and I would
grab hold of the inner guardrails and hop whenever we'd go over a
wave--a couple times we had several seconds of hangtime. It was nuts.
But anyway.).
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| FLIPPER! (Sorta) |
Even though it was an absolutely
beautiful day with hardly a cloud in the sky, it was COLD on that boat. I've grown up on boats my whole life, and I'm ashamed to admit I wasn't prepared.
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| Overexposed (both me and the picture!) Har har |
Now I know why they sell those stupid sweatshirts on sightseeing
boats. It's for unprepared "tourists" like me. Husband shelled out the money to the absolutely THRILLED concessions seller on the boat and we left with another souvenir of our trip... That we'll probably never wear again. Oh well.
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| Hold onto your hats! And your ridiculously overpriced sweatshirt. |
It
was even colder as the sun went down (and we slightly regretted taking
the scooter rather than a heated car!). We thawed out with some coffee
and chowder at a harbor-side restaurant and watched the sun go down,
then bundled up and shivered the whole way home.
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| Mmmmm, warm and toasty. |
How was your weekend?
Wow! I think you really did have a fun weekend!
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Such a cute outfit!!!! Looks like u had a marvelous weekend! I love little mini holidays on the weekend, so relaxing :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Neeno! And acting like a tourist in your hometown is the BEST, it makes the weekend seem special and gives you something to look forward to during the workweek ;)
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