The Perfect Saturday

The perfect way to start a perfect day is to have a perfect breakfast and that is why we went to Aroma in Studio City. It's a quaint little cafe filled with lots of trinkets, pastries, cakes, jars filled with candy, and a menu with breakfast, lunch and dinner. If you click on this collage you can see how delicous our breakfast was. Al's was of course the sweet dish....french toast and mine was the eggs benedict with asaparagus and a bowl of fresh fruit.
After breakfast we drove to Simi Valley which is where I work now. Normally I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that city on a weekend, but I had big plans for us to go to the Blueberry Farm and the Ronald Reagan Library. When we got to the Farm I was so excited to find goats and llamas that you could feed and OF COURSE I fed them. One of the goats was being really lazy, basking in the sun on his 20ft post. Picking blueberries was so much fun. I'm sure it would get old after about an hour, but since I've never been to a blueberry farm I loved it. Picking blueberries is definatley harder than it looks. It's very time consuming and I totally understand now why they are so expensive in the stores. If you look at the top right picture that was the blueberry winner.....big, blue, and round. I'm a pro now!!

You may sample, but don't make a meal out of it. I'm suprised my teeth weren't blue by the time we left because I had a lot of samples:)
They also had a Farmers Market and I was in heaven. I loooove fresh fruits and vegetables. I would have been perfectly fine if Al would have left me there for the day. Hooray for Farmers Markets and picking your own blueberries!!
Next stop.... The Ronald Reagan Library
Air Force One
You weren't allowed to take pictures in Air Force One which I didn't really understand, but I figured since I paid $12 and turned off my flash that I could sneak a couple of pictures. This was the plane for Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W Bush. George W. Bush got a new plane at some point and I'm sure the one Obama is flying around in is amazing. Below is a picture of the office.A sitting area. Reagan apparently loved jelly bellys and they had jars of them displayed all over the plane.

This next picture is a perfect replica of Ronald Reagans Oval Office
The next exhibit was my favorite.....inside the White House. A mini White House replica that took over 600,000 hours to create. It shows every room inside the White House and has tiny working televisions, hand carved chairs, and crystal chandeliers.
It was so impressive that at one point I thought how cool would it have been to have a doll house like this when I was little......maybe even now, lol.
The top left room is the First Lady's sitting room, next to it is their bedroom, and next to that one is Obamas sitting room and of course the guy gets the t.v.
Close Up
Air Force One, one of Reagans cars, and a beautiful view of dried up Simi Valley.

A piece of the Berlin wall, so much amazing history.

The Ronald Reagan tree. There is a Nancy Reagan tree on the left, so sweet.

A beautiful and amazing Saturday.

June Gloom

On Friday night we went to the Dodgers game. We are going to try and take advantage of living so close to Dodger stadium and go a couple times a month even though I suffer from severe ADD and can't focus on the game for more than 10 minutes.
If you look closely you can see the LA smog line.....It can't be good for our lungs. Everytime we go to a game Al teaches me something new. That night I learned about Closers and Jonathan Broxton. I was like wait....so that's all he does? He just comes out at the end of the game, runs around to hard rock, and pitches? Sounds like a pretty sweet gig to me. Broxton made LA proud and THE DODGERS WON!!

Downtown LA

On Saturday we went to Ventura to visit Tonya, Billy, and Baby Camden. I hope Tonya convinces Billy to move back to California soon:) Check out Camdens shades....sooo cute
He is adorable
Tonya and Camden
Billy & Camden
Al and I with the Bush family. It was so much fun to hang out with them for the afternoon....it doesn't happen often enough.
On Sunday Al did the WORLD FAMOUS 10k mud run at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside.
There were so many creative team names. These were some of my favorites I saw.
Mud Studs. They won the team race and finished in 49 minutes which is so fast because you have to wait until all 5 runners are together to finish.
The Dirty Girls
I'm not really sure about this guy.....maybe he was just craving attention. I think the sign on his back says Do I look fat in this dress?These guys were my favorite,Front side..... Salute This
Back Side....I wish my wife were this dirty
I would have totally been on this team Little Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf
The starting line. Get ready for 3 miles of runnin and 3 miles of muddin.

The last mud pit the runners have to crawl/run through.
The first runners that were totally cheating....they were lifting up the streamers they had to "crawl" under.
Here comes Al

and he's in the Mud

So sick. The mud smelled so gross.

The guy on the left looked like he was in pain.

Almost to the finish line

Way to go Al!!

Mud EVERYWHERE. Teeth, Nose, Ears, Eyes, Shoes, basically anything you can think of.
Don't touch me please:)

The guys Al ran with.Nothing like a cold community shower.

Afterwards we had big plans to go to breakfast and the beach, but believe it or not June Gloom really exists. It has been so gross this week....go away June Gloom. We had breakfast at The Longboarder Cafe in Oceanside. It was delicous and we will definately be going back, but only if it's sunny at the beach!!