After driving for many many MANY hours, we landed in San Clemente, California to visit our high school friend (and my old roommate) Heather and her husband Eben. Eben is in the Marines, so they live near Camp Pendleton, which is near San Diego. We arrived to beer and delicious vegan sweet potato chili, which was extremely welcome and appreciated after our long drive.
On Monday, Heather and I took a morning yoga class. Heather is a pilates instructor, so she probably made silent fun of me the whole time, but it was a great class. After class we met Eric and Eben for brunch. Heather worked on Monday so Eben took us to the beach in San Clemente to hang out.
The view from Heather and Eben's window:
On Tuesday Heather, Eric and I drove south to San Diego to go to Balboa Park, a large park that houses multiple gardens and museums.
Lily pond!
There was a young lady taking senior pictures, so Heather and I decided to take our own.
There were a lot of beautiful gardens, including a cactus garden and a rose garden.
Eric being a creeper:
Heather being a creeper:
The rose garden was in full bloom and was amazing, although our nice camera died halfway through. Whoops.
After Balboa Park we ate at a restaurant called Veg-N-Out, a vegetarian "version" of In-N-Out. They had all vegan/vegetarian burgers and it was delicious. I have no pictures of our food because we ate it too damn fast.
On Wednesday we left San Clemente and now we're in Los Angeles, visiting Eric's old friend Dusty Jensen. Hollywood and shit, right? Right.
IPhone roundup:
A monstrous latte for brunch in San Clemente.
This was marketed as a "piece" of pie. Also monstrous.
San Clemente sunset.
Eben and Heather own a lot of Legos, so Eric combined the "hippie" Lego man with the "nerd" Lego man to make an "Eric" Lego man that looked surprisingly accurate.
Cactus garden in Balboa Park:
Rose garden in Balboa Park:
Patio beers in LA with Dusty.
He was the self-appointed "Lord of the Cello". He had his own wind machine.
On Thursday I went for a walk to the Baldwin Hills lookout point, which had these absolutely wretched stairs:
View from the top:
Thursday night we went out to Villain's Tavern, a great place in downtown that is home to the LA Hootenanny on Thursday nights. The LA Hootenanny is a group of Texas musicians who get together in LA and play great rock/country/whatnot. They do some covers and some original stuff and are a lot of fun. I flipped my shit because Todd Lowe is part of the band, an actor who was in Gilmore Girls and currently plays Terry Bellefleur in True Blood. I have loved him for a very long time and almost died.
Photographic proof!
Dusty took this very attractive picture of me and Eric:
LA has been great so far, more to come!
Nice senior photos, ladies! Oh and I about peed my pants at the "Eric" lego man. Nice touch. Sounds like you guys are having a great trip! KTJ
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