Since getting the new car we have been on several trips, 3000 miles on it so far. A few weeks ago we went up to San Francisco to visit Angela's brother. I learned that San Francisco is not for manual cars, I am pretty sure this is where the California stop was invented, and that parking is never available. We went on a trolley ride:
We ate a lot of bad food, starting with breakfast at:
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We also went and watched the sea lions at the pier for a while.
This last weekend, on Sunday, we went to RCX at the fairgrounds in Pomona. I forgot the camera, but Angela got a toy:
An R/C helicopter, I'm not sure why, but she just had to have it. I have to admit it is fun to fly around. There were also a lot of other cool R/C displays, demos, and racing. They had a lot more than I expected for the larger 1/5 scale cars (I want one). The cars and planes each took up a building plus a few car displays and the racing outside, and then there was one guy there doing boats off in his own little pool area...what happened to the boats?? For size reference:
And finally yesterday we got new cell phones. Mine had been losing signal randomly for about a month and the screen randomly going blank for about the last 6. Angela's also started having screen issues a few days ago. We both got the LG Dare:
A good phone is $$$$$, after all the rebates they will have cost about $350, with a car charger! Ouch! A good chunk of that due to California's near 10% sales tax on the before discount price of $410 per phone. Nice things about them are 3.2 megapixel camera, bluetooth (can sync it with the Acura), looks like it has a good music player, big touch screen, and a the keyboard I need for texting.
This weekend we took off to LA again for the LA Invasion Rim of the World Cruise, car show and drag racing. We took off Saturday morning and stopped a few places on the way down so Angela could look at brides maids dresses. Sunday morning we headed out for the cruise. There were around 60 cars registered and more showed up.
Once at the top there was a BBQ planned, but the caterer was called and apparently he thought the meal was Monday, so we went and found our own places. We ate at a nice place called the Peppercorn Grill. We headed back over to the meeting area for the cruise back down. We somehow ended up driving down with the group that had driven in from AZ.
We got back to the hotel about 5 and just rested the rest of the day. The next morning was the car show and drag races.
We watched most of the day of racing and then headed back home and got back to Ridgecrest around 6. It was a really good weekend.
