Day 4 or 1 of the Bindbeutel Family Vacation

Yes, my family has been in CA for four days now, but this is the first day we have all been together.

My mom and sister spent Sunday and Monday at Disneyland, while my dad and i stayed in the Venice/Santa Monica area.

Today we left the LA/Anaheim area and are at our first stop...Santa Barbara.

It's a pretty perfect area of California. I now wish i would have made this trip a long time ago. We had lunch at the Cold Spring Tavern (http://www.coldspringtavern.com/menu.html) The rest of the day was spent walking around down town and spending way too much money at the farmers market. Anything my dad sampled he had to buy.

Currently we are taking a small break in our hotel room watching the cardinals vs brewers game Thank You ESPN!!! This is the first Cardinals game i have seen all season!!!

Tomorrow we are off to Hearst Castle

*pics*

where we had lunch, the cold spring tavern. It reminded me of YL's camp, Frontier Ranch.


the view from the drive to and from the cold spring tavern



downtown Pasadena...there was a farmers market going on when we were there. The bag my dad is holding is full of the best cherries in CA. The same cherries Emilee and i bought when she was in town at the Santa Monica Farmers market = the cherry lady gets around