central coast

over the holiday Jordan and I decided while we were in California we were going to take a weekend trip up the coast to Santa Barbara. The drives is INSANELY beautiful. One of my besties {Alyssa} grew up there and so she and her husband Brady {see below} met us downtown after our drive up. 

We strolled down main street picked up a starbucks 

{which always reminds me of London when Im with Lyss because we order hazelnut hot coco}

then headed to the pier 

presh.

i guess the needy can't be bothered to actually sit in one place so they just set up shop and ask you to leave some $.  There are little camps lining the pier.

i love the sea

my husband ladies and gentleman.

 always makes it easy to get a good picture, this one comes complete with helmet hair a la road-trip

sisters pretty much.

surprisingly a lot of people ask us if we are sisters

oh hey giant pelican 

scary whale

nice whale

I miss LONDON

not quiet as good as shake shack but still dang good. also its close the beach so the habit wins.

we asked about 4 different people to take our picure, every single one came out like this

finally I propped the camera up and set up the trusty self timer.

{note brady trying to hold jordan's hand here... they love each other}

finally a decent one

in all his glory

We stayed in the most adorable Inn & Spa. It was in little really neat danish (swedish... something like that) town called Solvang. You sorta feel like you are in a foreign country for a minute when you get there. 

this place had the best chocolate

in my pjs hangin by a giant shoe. a good one I think.

can't wait to take another trip.