Santa Barbara

Well folks, let me make this short. We're about to head out the hotel and towards Los Angeles today. My two are still sound asleep, and sleepless mom tries to figure out things with her German bank. Which isn't too hard after all, b/c this Italian travel group is more than loud!!! Don't you just hate noisy Europeans? *lol*

Butterflies alive

Mission Santa Barbara (from a back angle)

Fountain in front of the Mission

Decoration inside the Courthouse

What does this have to do with jurisdiction?

View down from the bell tower

Exploring the gardens
of El Presidio

Flaggs at Stearn's Wharf

Bradbury Dam, Santa Ynez River, Lake Cachuma

Our trip continues to be rather exhausting for me, and the two pain attacks were proof enough of it I think. No clue yet of what to expect in the city of angels. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about, right? Anyways, so I'm sitting here, thinking about what we saw in Santa Barbara, and that was quite a lot, let me assure you that much: the museum of natural history (with wonderful alive butterflies), the Mission, the courthouse, El Presidio, the Stearn's Wharf with pier and on our way back to our hotel in Santa Maria we passed (and stopped) by the wonderful Lake Cachuma and the Bradbury Dam. We were gone like eleven hours or so!

Going butterfly crazy

The Sunday was rather unspectacular compared to that. We walked to the museum of flight again, to write something in there guestbook, played cards (FLUXX, you know the game? It's still kinda puzzling for us...), went out to grab some Mexican food for dinner at some fast food joint, and came back and did crosswords until midnight.

Watching the butterflies

Action paired with relaxation. Peter went sunbathing and to the pool a lot, Sabrina was stuck to the internet most of the time, and I 'wellnessed' if there's such a word. We gotta save up our energies in order to manage two weeks of sightseeing LA *giggle*.

Just us

I'll report right back with you guys as soon as there's more to report, ok? And you keep up the good work and keep commenting on my blogposts, so I know you're still out there and with me, paying attention. Hugs 2u all, you know who you are!!!

Can we take this home as a sofa?

For more photos (on all the sites) please go to my German blog... I refuse double posting pics ;-) Regina's German travel blog