Playa, Sol y Palmeras!

Just some shots from the beautiful Santa Barbara.















This place is just unbelievably gorgeous. You know when you look at a chocolate cake with a ton of frosting and cream and strawberies peeking out... you can almost feel the sugar rush in your temples. Well, when you look out over the hills in SB a very similar rush happens...

Here is Marvin choking the pillow at the hotel... would probably help if he closed his eyes.


Back in reality, NYC prognosis is F90+ temperatures, so I hope to spend the day at the pool. Tomorrow however I'll be watering myself with some very cold beers watching Brazil play Australia. Looking forward to some exciting footwork... You know what they say... Brazilian players got the footwork because they're all good samba dancers... we'll be watching out for Kaka'! I wonder if his young beautiful, Paulista socialite wife will be there? You know coaches are divided on the issue of player "doing it" during WC with their wives/giflfriends...but Brasil's coach is all for it!

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Fly birdy fly!!!!

I'm really becoming a bit of royalty! I've started noticing that in the last year or so... I mean I get aggravated when certain little comforts are not immediately available, when I'm not served with a proper amount of ceremony at a restaurant, or when I have to wait for something in line with mare mortals.. etc, etc, etc.

Like for example, I was getting extremely annoyed at being in Economy class during my flight to LA. (AS IF I've ever flown first class.) However, the people next to me were definitely not cute enough, except for Wallstr of course, the food was lacking! (No literally... there was NO food at all, only for ordering... like I'm going to give you $5 bucks after having payed hundreds already!!).

Anyway, I was just thinking, where the heck is this all coming from? I've never been a demanding litl brat...

But really is it too much to ask not to contract SARS on a freakin' plane!??? Seriously this chick next to us kept coughing up a lung in a very un-elegant manner!!! Ewww!!

*After further harassing of Nico... he finally told me that I should bring a guide book with me just in case... since he really is not from around there (being that he is just on a work project) so I should probably prepare something if its not ok to just wing it... than he yawned...

I think he is just pulling my leg... but what if he's really not? Ok, I'm SO making my own plan, so if he drops the ball, I'll take over!

By the way, that's Marvin on the photo, my traveling duckie. If you press him on the tummy, he quacks in a very repramanding manner at you! He is awesome!

PS: the game US vs Czech R. was just a painfull disgrace... so sad... why can't the US just join the rest of the world in playing some good foot ball... and maybe using the metric system!!

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Quick 10 overview

I'm back. I can't believe its over!! Bummer! Though at the same time I'm glad and I'm even looking forward to going to work tomorrow. Yep, I must have picked up some exotic virus from the lovely fellow passengers on the flight back. Is sars still a problem? I'm not sure, I've been away from the world for a week...

The pictures! I hope to go through them in the next day or so and put up the gorgeousness that we saw!

Some of the highlights of our trip included:

1. Girls' night out in Santa Barbara... under-aged boys trying to hit on us... (no.. WAY underaged)

2. Making our limo driver 30 mins late to a wedding she was supposed to work after taking us around wine tasting.

3. "Tasting" enough wine to be able to float... fly... and perform other similar tasks.

4. Pacific Highway one between San Louis Obispo and Monterey... on EMPTY. (What! gas costs a lot now days, so we decided we just won't use it!)

5. The most gorgeous beach in Carmel!

6. San Fran has got way to many dam hills! (Good workout for the ass, which is probably necessary considering their many good yummy restaurants and the Ghirardelli chocolate sold in all forms and shapes all over the place.)

7. Gilroy has got AWESOME fruit wine and champaine!!! And tastings are free!

8. Its hot in L.A

9. Paradise Cove is a nightmare on a weekend!!!

10. The "other" side of Malibu rules.

And very important lesson we learned from a BABY: if you want someone to like you, smile and laugh alot!
Duhhh! (Oh, sometimes gurgling sounds may be good too.)

Hasta man~ana banana

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CALIFORNIAAAAAA

Hi!!!!!

We are here, Wallstr and I that is, in San Fran!!! Oh my goodness.... we spent an awesome time in Santa Barbara... as you can see we are alive after the limo driven wine country ride... than on our way north to San Luis Obispo... and up highway 1 through Big Sur and etc... AMAZING UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!

Today we were in Carmel, California... GORGEOUS!!! We are having such an unbelievable time its .... UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!

ohhh, Nico misses me... just in case ya'll were concerned, and I'm sure you were..

Oh and btw why no one said its hard to walk in San Fran... all these dam hills up and down and up and down... we are going to have buns of steel (even more than now).

sooooooo we are now going to go and have some drinks and some Italian food... and relax our legs...

Be good!!!!!!!!!!
Kisses from SUNSHINE filled californiaaaa
Love,
Ale and Wallstr

Seeya

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