Spring Break

Let me try again - I had written out a lovely description once before and my explorer froze and I lost everything.

I have to say that spring break begin in a stressful way for me and Justin, but for Justin mainly. He had spent half the week leading up to break competing at a moot court competition (fake appellate court) in Wilmington, Delaware. The plan was that he would fly out of Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon, arrive in Madison on Sunday night and we would wake up and fly to L.A. on Monday morning. Unfortunately, for some reason that was never made clear to Justin, flights out of Philadelphia were delayed several hours and it was beginning to look like Justin wouldn't make it back to Madison in time to catch our 8:30am flight. He was entertaining the possibility of flying into Detroit, renting a car and driving over six hours to Madison. Luckily it never came to that and Justin was able to make into Madison with just enough time to retrieve his luggage and check-in for our flight to California.

From there on out the trip was lovely. The flight to L.A. was uneventful - except for a view of the Grand Canyon. Once in L.A., we met up with Justin's family and headed to the beach in Santa Monica. The water wasn't particularly warm, but the sunshine felt great. While in southern California we perused the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica and walked the Santa Monica Pier. We drove through UCLA and made a brief stop over at the law school. We ate lots of delicious food.

After Justin's family returned to Wisconsin, Justin and I checked out USC and the L.A. Coliseum and then made our way to the O.C. and spent a day at Disneyland. Justin met Mickey Mouse for the first time! From Disneyland we headed to my aunt and uncle's house in Huntington Beach. Justin also met them for the first time - lots of firsts for him. From there we headed north (after a pilgrimage to Newport Beach).

The hills along Highway 5 were a beautiful green and the fields were dotted with wildflowers. I do like them golden as well, but everything looked so fresh and clean (with the exception of Harris Ranch).

Once we made it to my parents' we were exhausted, but that didn't stop us from spending the next two days looking at wedding locations. We liked two of the 6 that we saw. Check out the websites and let us know what you think. Vine Hill House and Trentadue Winery