Yesterday was an amazing day. I had work in the morning, but after I got off Doug and I had plans to go hiking. It was cold and cloudy here, so secretly neither of us really felt like going, but neither said anything and off we went! On our way out to the trail, we stopped by the movie theaters to buy our tickets for the midnight showing of Harry Potter. It's the last of the movies so I'm so excited that we get to see it at midnight (especially since we leave for Europe two days later).
The trail was up in the Los Padres Forest above Ojai. It took us about an hour to drive all the way there (curvy unfamiliar mountain roads), but we were glad when we broke through the clouds and had beautiful bright blue skies and sun!
We knew that we didn't have that much time since we had plans with our friends that night. But we started out on the trail because we thought that we could reach these rocks that we had seen from the road. And we did! It was a little over a mile to get there. We had to cross a couple of creeks and hike a couple of hills but it was a fun hike. We explored the rocks for a bit before heading back to our car. We felt like we were in a star trek episode or something and were glad that neither of us were wearing a red shirt :)
From the road as we were driving to the trailhead. The rocks in front are the ones that we ended up hiking to
Hiking the trail
The rocks. Or as they called them Piedra Blanca
Watching the clouds spilling into the valley
The clouds were really thick on the way down the mountain. Don't worry, we drove slow :)
We didn't even feel like we were cutting our hike short, which was good. And we made it home with plenty of time to get cleaned up and ready for our friends.
Three people in our group have birthdays within four days. Sammy's is the day before mine so we celebrated both of our birthdays last night (we celebrate Elyse's on Tuesday). We played team trivial pursuit, which is much better than normal trivial pursuit. The questions are more reasonable (still some are really tough) and since it's team, you have a much better chance of coming up with the answer. I always blank out during trivia games. Then we had cake and opened presents. Red Velvet! Mmmm. James ate way too much frosting for three dollars. Then we played Cranium. We divided ourselves up by birthdays, and the current birthday team won! (Which was me, Elyse, and Sammy). It was a great day and night.
This morning we found out that we have a place to stay in London (so stoked and thankful!). Doug made us waffles and bacon, and now we're going to go to the beach (still waiting for the clouds to burn completely off). Should be a great day though!!
Sidenote: I took this picture when I made Doug dinner earlier this week. It was the first time I used some of our serving dishes and wanted to commemorate the occasion. We just haven't had a reason to use them yet!
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