Galaxy and Cards

I never got a chance to post these before we let Cali...the Friday before we moved, while Braden's parents and brother Grant were in town we went to a LA Galaxy soccer game. I absolutely loved it! Here's some pictures:

That night we all stayed in a hotel in Santa Ana and the next morning we drove down to San Diego to watch our St. Louis Cardinals play the Padres.

Cards warming up:In action:Joe, Diane, Grant, and Braden:

Braden and I:

Cards lost but we had a great time at the game and the stadium was really neat.

Santa Monica

Last night we hung out with Brennan again while he was here. Went to In-N-Out Burger another "California thing" to do and then drove down to my favorite, Santa Monica. We hit the beach and peir first:

Then did some shopping at Third Street/Promenade. As always, had a great time!

Only 11 days til the move. We're still deciding on an apartment, we haven't begun to pack, but both of us only have one more day at our jobs so we'll be able to get it done next week before we pick up the moving truck. Prayers would be much appreciated as we will be in need of extra energy and extra patience...this moving stuff can get a little hectic (especially when not all the details are finalized).

House of Blues

Our good friend Brennan Loveless is in town this week for a conference in Pasadena along with the associate pastor of his church. We took them to the House of Blues for dinner. It's becoming a ritual for us to take visitors to California there to eat! haha! Later we took them showed them around the Hollywood area and saw the Walk of Fame and Graumen's Chinese Theater where the famous star hand and footprints are. Fun night!
Brennan is engaged to one of my best friends, Natalie Doerr. Brennan and Nat were both in our wedding and now it's our turn to be in theirs on June 23rd. Weddings are always so much fun and we're really looking forward to this one! We're sooo excited for them.

Santa Barbara

Last Saturday morning we took a drive about 1 and 1/2 hours north of where we live to hang out at Santa Barbara for the day. We spent the day shopping, people watching, and walking along the coast. We're making the most of our last few weeks here in California. Here's a few photos from Santa Barbara: There was a guy on some kind of board (similar to a wake board, I assume)who was being pulled by the parachute thing. He glided real fast along the water. Not sure what this is called but it was pretty neat to watch:

Dodgers vs. Padres

Arturo, a guy at my work has season tickets to the Dodgers games and he let me buy two off him for Friday night's game vs. the San Diego Padres. There is a big rivalry between these two teams and it is very evident from sitting in the stands when everyone yells "Padres suck! Padres suck!" whenever they make a bad play, strike out, or whatever. So needless to say the few Padre fans that did come to the game were harrassed the whole time because the Padres ended up losing to the Dodgers 9-1.

We went to the game early to see batting practice...

We got free Dodger hats when we walked into the stadium and we bought Dodger dogs, nachos, and soda at the concession. Yum!

Only in California...

Braden and I went to the park over the weekend:

Crazy that most people don't even have wireless in their own homes, but in California, just go to your local park to surf the web.