Beaches and Baseball

This week we had our 3rd Wedding Anniversary.  To celebrate we went out to a nice dinner, and scheduled plans for a weekend at Disneyland at the end of the month.

Saturday we drove up the coast to spend the day in Santa Barbara.  We walked along the beach, down the pier and along the State Street Historic Downtown shopping area.  We have heard that Santa Barbara is a nice place, but we were surprised by how much we loved this quaint beach town - Bogey included.

 

Sunday we decided to catch an afternoon game at Dodger Stadium.  For you Baseball buffs you may find these factoids as interesting as I (Tim) did: Dodger Stadium is currently the third oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball (behind Fenway Park in Boston and Wrigley Field in Chicago) and is the largest ballpark by seating capacity.  Since the game started right around lunchtime we purchased tickets in the "all you can eat" Right Field Pavilion.  Despite no respite from the California sun, our 1st row seats in the outfield were almost as fantastic as the unlimited Dodger Dogs.  The game was uneventful (offensive wise) until the 9th inning where the Dodgers won by a walk-off home run. It was a great ending to a wonderful day at the ballpark.

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Here and There

We have had a couple of pretty laid back weekends since our last posting.  Two weeks ago we went to the neat town of Orange CA to visit one of Tim's former teammates from Greensboro College.  We spent the day walking around Historic Orange and visiting with Lawren, his Wife and their 3 children.  Last weekend we headed down the street to Six Flags  to ride a few roller coasters before the Final Four.  

Yesterday we went to The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley.  The Museum was quite remarkable, it definitely exceeded our expectations.  Unknown to us, we ended up timing our visit to the Library very well, as it was the last weekend the Miniature White House exhibit would be on display.  Unfortunately flash photography is not allowed, so our pictures will not do justice to this phenomenal replica. But I was able to track down more in-depth pictures of the model here.  One of the highlights of The Museum is the pavilion that hosts President Reagan's Air Force One, Marine One and his motorcade.  We were able to board the Air Force One, but have no pictures since photography is not allowed while on the plane.  The 80's state of the art communication center on Air Force One is now laughable, but it was really cool seeing President Reagan's Nuclear Football sitting in between the seats of the communication center.   Also featured at The Museum is the suit worn by President Reagan when he was shot, a section of the Berlin Wall, a full-sized replica of The Oval Office and President Reagan's final resting place. 

For our Sunday outing we went hiking at Runyon Canyon Park in the Hollywood Hills.  This 4 mile hike had amazing views throughout its 1000 ft. of elevation change.  

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