USA (back to the trip) - Jan 2008

Well, this is the last photo I will post about this trip. If measured in pleasure, crazyness and delight, this was a truly succesful and rich trip, that I hope one day we'll be able to reproduce. Love to all family who made it possible! Specially to my mom who helped us in her own way and to my stepfather, who made 3 wonderful children that welcomed us with their hearts open! I love you all!




After our Northern Californian tour, we landed in Disneyland where we met Nikki and the bunch! It was a great day, we really had tons of fun... adults and kids! Plus it was great because Nikki's kids had never been to Disneyland before either, so it was a big discovery adventure for everyone! And then back to San Diego that same night (what a day!) were Nikki read a bed time story to the kids...































This is the very famous BigSur, highway 1... our third love-at-first-sight site! Unexplicable feeling of peace...






Monterey to Carmel...


Monterey and it's aquarium...







Architecture!








Chinatown!




Look closely... the manager and the (poor) waiters are actually window-dancing! They put music on and do a little show for the lucky side-walkers passing by at that moment!



Cable car!



There's a tradition of mural painting in San Francisco. There are many done by famous artists; here's one done by Diego Rivera...



Pier 39, which we had never heard about before, but is pretty cool... a good lively ambience... a little turisty... we had our first clam chowder though... always impressed by seeing seals in the middle of a large city!



There, there... right over there... you can see The Rock... yeap, not only have I seen to many shows, I've also seen too many movies ;-)!


I never thought the Golden Gate was anything special, but once you are in front of it, it hits you! You've seen too many episodes of 3 is a Bunch, because seeing that red bridge is making you want to cry!! And the redwoods... well there is a have-to-do-it-before-I-die wish come true.








And now in San Francisco!!! Our second love-at-first-sight town!




Now, headed towards San Francisco. Please, bare with me... here are a few (important) photos for my husband, the geek ;-)...





Next day San Luis Obispo, just as cute of a town (but w/o the beach)...




Now, again, on the go! Dani had gone back to Arizona and we left San Diego as well (having again exchanged the make and model of our car!) towards Northern California. Our first stop... or shall I say, our undistinguishably first love-at-first-sight stop: Santa Barbara...


And the sweetest photo...


Of course, Taty was not going anywhere until she gave one of her special dance workshops...




And the seals...




Before getting to La Joya we stopped at Mission Beach Park for a couple of rides...






US Magical... this is the kind of thing in the States that you rarely see elsewhere... the client is the KING! We were able to exchange make and model of our rented car 3 times! We just kept going back for a bigger or prettier or glossier car! Depending on our mood that is. So for this ocasion we exchanged our Grand Cherokee (I think) for a convertible... YES!!! Too cool! And since Rob has a collection of cars, they just took out there's and we went out for a ride to La Joya to see the seals. Apart from that, please enjoy Paul's and Dani's convertible love affair ;-)...





Rob took us to Ocean Side, a really cool part of town where... bunch of houses right off the shore... a playground right by the beach... a boulevard to ride your bike on :-).








Here we are back to the trip photos... I know there are zillions of photos of this trip and it was already so hard to pick from the trillions of photos we took! But hey, it's my blog and it was our great trip, so here, our best souvenirs ;-)...