Friday, May 11, 2012

I LOVE LA

Los Angeles that is! This last week has been so beautiful and I've been having so much fun visiting the ocean and soaking up the sunshine. The drive over here was spectacular and my friend Shannon and I had a blast seeing some of the most beautiful parts of the country. Here are some pictures I took along the way, and then some.

These are pictures I took from the Carlsbad Caverns(which were incredible, in case you didn't know):








Here is the famous Barringer Meteor Crater in all it's glory ... yep there it is.... 


As you may or may not know I'm kind of a big fan of food, and eating in general. You may think that most people like food, but I guarantee you, most people do not like food the way that I like food. Well, one of my favorite shows to watch is Man v. Food. I don't know if you've seen the show, but the premise is that this guy named Adam Richmond visits cities throughout the United States and competes in the various eating challenges that the restaurants have. Our first stop was Austin, Tx, so naturally I looked up what the eating challenge there might be(secretly with the hopes of attempting it). The eating challenge in Austin was at this delicious little Mexican restaurant called Juan in a Million which specializes in breakfast burritos, tacos, and the like. The eating challenge is to eat EIGHT ... read 'em EIGHT of these bad boys shown below. What exactly is "shown below" you ask? Well, it is a heaping pile of potatoes, bacon, egg, and cheese served with 3 flour tortillas. I managed to eat one and a half tortillas filled with the delicious mixture, and I highly doubt that I was able to stuff even half of that gooey goodness into the two tortillas. It was, however, delicious, and I seriously regret not being able to grab it to go. 


Before we visited the actual Caverns, we stayed in a KOA Cabin just outside of the city of Carlsbad, and when we walked up to the Welcome Center, we found this sign. How cute is this? 


As you can tell, and as I've said, we had a super fun time on our road trip adventure. Needless to say, though, I am so excited to be home. I can't believe this is the place that I got to grow up in and this is the place that I get to call home, I am seriously so blessed. Like today, I went to the beach with a couple of my friends and we poked around in the tide pools and found some cool things. Let's have a look:


 This rock is covered in baby Sea Anemones, at least they looked like babies to me


Close up shot of the babies(Yes, I confess, I spent a good, few minutes poking at each one) 



I have no idea what that is, it looks like an alien to me ... that must be it


My friends torturing playing with sand crabs. There were so many!


STARFISH!


More sea anemones 


Isn't it beautiful? 


Well that's all for now folks. As far as wedding planning goes, I'm working on invitations and then centerpieces are next! It's creeping up so fast that I can't believe it's only like 3 months away! Eek! Better get crackin'!