After celebrating Christmas 2007 with our folks, Lee and I took off for a mini road trip to Santa Barbara -- home to Sean and Gus of Psych -- for a few days. On our LA road trip, we really only stopped in SB for burgers. This time, we were able to explore the adorable downtown area (including visits to all of the Blue Bee stores!), meet up with Justin, and go visit the cute candy shops and trinket stores on the boardwalk. It was a nice, relaxing few days before I had to head back to work!
For anyone who is planning on visiting Santa Barbara, you must heed this advice: go to Tupelo Junction Cafe. Order the fried chicken salad with cornbread, dried cranberries, pumpkin seeds, and herb buttermilk dressing. It might change your life.
We were pretty tired when we arrived at our hotel, so we decided to be lazy and order room service. I was planning on just getting a salad or something, but Lee, resident hotel expert (in his humble opinion), shot that down and explained that a salad wasn't the proper way to order room service. So we did it the "real" way and went a little nuts -- but we were able to finish almost everything and had some cold pizza left over for breakfast!
Lee with our ridiculous feast:
The weather was pretty cold out. We took a walk on the beach across the street from the hotel, but were bundled up in our coats!
I think both of us kept insisting to ourselves that we were in (kind of) southern California, so it must be warm enough to swim. We took a frigid dip in the pool, then immediately made a dash for the warm jacuzzi.
We had dinner with Justin and his friends at the Palace Grill -- it's pretty sweet to be a tourist in a town where your good friend works in the hospitality business! Our friends at the Four Seasons were able to get us great reservations -- thanks, guys!
I'm not really sure what's going on here... Lee looks amused.
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