Whirlwind trip to Santa Barbara
Pictures below post.
We are back, and very tired, but it was a great trip. We stayed in a motel in Santa Barbara and spent a lot of time in their two outdoor swimming pools. This is a luxury we have not enjoyed in San Francisco--being able to swim outdoors in the evening, comfortably. Daisy had possibly the most fun of her life in these pools. One of them was only two feet in depth so she could play all over the pool without me holding her the whole time, which was a totally new experience. She was so excited that she was shrieking and babbling with delight. She makes up these hilarious nonsense babblings, and for some reason one of them was "Compliments to the chef!" (She kept yelling this as she was running all over the pool). We loved our first evening of swimming so much that we got up and did it again in the morning. We also walked around downtown Santa Barbara in the evening and ate outdoors at a Mexican restaurant for dinner; visited the Santa Barbara mission; visited the UC Santa Barbara campus, where Mark got his Master's degree, and did a brief tour of horrid Isla Vista dumps where Mark once lived (although they looked nicer now, in the glow of nostalgia); and had lunch with an old friend of Mark's!
Daisy was a champion. Unbelievably, she only napped for 45 minutes on the way down; luckily, she got a 2-hour nap on the way back to make up for it. Our potty-trained girl did a spectacular job with the bodily functions on the long shlep, too. She would tell us whenever she needed to use the potty, and we'd just pull over to the side of the road and use our cheap-o plastic potty wherever we were! She did all her bodily functions in it, the whole trip. She was pretty good at sleeping in the motel, too, and spent most of the night in her travel bed (5 AM to 7:30 in bed with Mom). She had some slightly whiny moments at the mission, where she kept asking us plaintively, "Do they have swings?"
Having fun at the pool in Santa Barbara
Daisy has a new interest in making funny faces. She invented this new face on the trip--squinting her eyes shut and jutting her chin out and making this big toothy grin (well, she also has a close-lipped version, and that's the one here). These are our funny faces for the camera.
The fountain outside the Santa Barbara Mission
The beautiful mission
We are back, and very tired, but it was a great trip. We stayed in a motel in Santa Barbara and spent a lot of time in their two outdoor swimming pools. This is a luxury we have not enjoyed in San Francisco--being able to swim outdoors in the evening, comfortably. Daisy had possibly the most fun of her life in these pools. One of them was only two feet in depth so she could play all over the pool without me holding her the whole time, which was a totally new experience. She was so excited that she was shrieking and babbling with delight. She makes up these hilarious nonsense babblings, and for some reason one of them was "Compliments to the chef!" (She kept yelling this as she was running all over the pool). We loved our first evening of swimming so much that we got up and did it again in the morning. We also walked around downtown Santa Barbara in the evening and ate outdoors at a Mexican restaurant for dinner; visited the Santa Barbara mission; visited the UC Santa Barbara campus, where Mark got his Master's degree, and did a brief tour of horrid Isla Vista dumps where Mark once lived (although they looked nicer now, in the glow of nostalgia); and had lunch with an old friend of Mark's!
Daisy was a champion. Unbelievably, she only napped for 45 minutes on the way down; luckily, she got a 2-hour nap on the way back to make up for it. Our potty-trained girl did a spectacular job with the bodily functions on the long shlep, too. She would tell us whenever she needed to use the potty, and we'd just pull over to the side of the road and use our cheap-o plastic potty wherever we were! She did all her bodily functions in it, the whole trip. She was pretty good at sleeping in the motel, too, and spent most of the night in her travel bed (5 AM to 7:30 in bed with Mom). She had some slightly whiny moments at the mission, where she kept asking us plaintively, "Do they have swings?"
Having fun at the pool in Santa Barbara
Daisy has a new interest in making funny faces. She invented this new face on the trip--squinting her eyes shut and jutting her chin out and making this big toothy grin (well, she also has a close-lipped version, and that's the one here). These are our funny faces for the camera.
The fountain outside the Santa Barbara Mission
The beautiful mission
posted by Sarah Goss at 9:48 PM
4 Comments:
Ok, Daisy sounds ready for the trip to the lost Goss ranch, where she can play in the Salinas River (just a shallow creek at the ranch).
G
Thanks, Sarah! This trip is inspiring to the three of us who have yet to travel. The pics are relaxing to look at too (plus I have this strange thing about liking pictures of swimming pools like photos of Sutro bath etc). Glad you had a great time!
Adrienne
Okay, great, Dad!
And thanks, Adrienne! We should talk and figure out a good time for our SF visit, soon.
Compliments to the chef! -- HAH! Made me laugh out loud, in silence in the hotel room at 3:30am.
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