Cali - Day 1

Good Morning Everyone,

We are live here in Huntington Beach, California, also known as Surf City USA ( where the Beach Boys began). We were up at 3am Saturday morning because we had to be on the road by 4am to get to the airport. Mama Rosie, aka. JoAnn, drove us to the Providence airport. We had an hour flight into Philly and then a six hour flight to LA. Kristin and I lucked out because we had no one in between us, so we were able to sprall out an relax while we watched "PS I Love You" for our in flight entertainment. Below is a picture of Kristin's "secret" handshake, which she turned into it being a luck handshake so that no one would sit next to us on the plane. The second picture is homeboy Twon.




Let's talk about our flight experience now......The first flight to Philly was on a small jet (about 50 seats). There were two flight attendants, one, who I will name Kanesha, was not friendly nor helpful. Thus, it is not the type of person who hands I would like to put my life with at 35,000 feet in the air. The second flight attendant, who I will name Eduardo, was flamboyantly gay. He did not fit the stereotype homosexual men typically do, i.e. excessive, open and funny. If fact, he was quite the polar opposite. Our experience started with him with first yelling at the man behind us who had a small dog on the plan in a carry case. The dog, needless to say was scared and might have yelped two or three times. Eduardo came over and said "Um, that thing most definitely cannot come out of its cage as the two of us are most definitely highly allergic." Um, hello, you're a flight attendants. Who is paying for the flight, us, or them? As we were en route to Philly, Eduardo struck again. This time, to an innocent girl sitting next to Kristin. Eduardo came running down the aisle and stood next to the girl and said "If I can hear the lyrics, it's too loud, so turn it down." The girl next to Kristin, as I am sure you devised, was listening to music, which by the way was not loud at all. Needless to say, she had to turn her music down to please Eduardo. The last Eduardo experience was when we landed and were no farther than 50 feet from the gate. Everyone anxious to get off the plan started unbuckling their seat belts. Eduardo was not happy with this at all, so he picked up with intercom and said, "As the plane is not at the gate, seat belts should still be fastened, so for all those that took their off, put them back on, thanks." At least this time he ended with thanks, but, it did not have friendly intentions.

The next two pictures were taken from roughly 42,000 feet up in the air as we flew over the grand canyon. The pictures were not that clear, but nonetheless, amazing. I have to say, that I was awe struck seeing some of the breath taking landscape from that far up.





We ended up getting to our hotel at 12pm yesterday. The hotel is beautiful and its right on the Pacific Ocean. We ended up getting a room with a balcony looking over the ocean. Our room was not ready when we got here, so Kristin and I went and had some lunch at the outdoor restaurant at the hotel. I was reading that the produce and fish here are incredible because it's all fresh right from the State. After lunch, they called us to tell us our room was ready. When we got to the room, we were both surprised with a Birthday cake for Kristin and massive chocolate covered strawberries decorated to look like they were in tuxedos, for me. We ended up going down to the pool to relax for a little while, before heading to dinner at Sparks, that was across the street from the famous Huntington Beach pier. Below are pictures from our room. The pier you see if the Huntington Beach pier, which by the way, is massive. Kristin and I walked the pier last night and watched the surfers. The pier itself has several stores and shops built on it as well as a look out tower for Baywatch babes to watch the surfers.

Well, TaTa and I are off to San Diego to go to the zoo. I also planned on bringing Kristin to see Balboa park, which I went to a couple of years ago. The park looks like pictures of the Garden of Eden. If we have time, we might go to Sea World.