The Last of Costa Mesa

Our last day in Costa Mesa was quick but nice. Kristi, Erin and I got up early and went with Mac toe the Orange County Swap Meet that was about 10minutes from their house. We walked the ENTIRE thing! I think it is something like 20 Rows that are probably an 1/8 of a mile long, maybe more! We all took out cash and I think we all pretty much spent it all (not too much though)! The find of the day was this hair thingy- which is too hard to really explain, but easy to use.

On our ride home Erin Made me take a picture of her with all the snack we had brought. It was pretty funny, and so was she. Kristi even joined in on the fun! What you won't see is the two containers of cream cheese-pesto-sun dried tomato Dip that we went through on the Ride up! YUM!!!! We LOVE Trader Joes!

We made one stop in Santa Nella for a potty break (when you ride with Erin you count on at least 3 p0tty breaks) so I made the girls take pictures in front of Pea Soup Andersen's As seen Above. What a great ending to a wonderful trip. Thanks for letting Erin and I tag along Kristi and Kaitlin! We had a good time with you and your family!!!!

The Food of Costa Mesa

JD (Uncle as you will recall) is an amazing cook. I don't know how I got away from dinner on Friday night without taking pictures! The man made us three unique pizza's that were unlike any other! My favorite was the Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza with ground beef, mustard, ketchup, bacon and lots of cheese! It was the most amazing thing in the world! The other two were great too. One was Carne Asada Fajita Pizza with the most tender carne asada, and the other was Chicken Pesto Zucchini Pizza....of course I picked off the Zucchini- but it was still amazing!!!

Saturday Night Mike, JD's best man from his wedding came over and cooked us Mac & Cheese Two Ways, Grilled Chicken and Steak, Spinach Salad and a Killer banana Cake! Oh My GOSH! I was in Seventh heaven! Check out this food!!!!!!

The Drive to Costa Mesa- WOOt wOOt!

This will be a four or so part blog. So check back each day for a new event from the weekend since that is the only time I can seem to do anything interesting and I HAVE to go to W-O-R-K during the week!

Kaitlin, Kristy (her cousin), Erin S. and I all headed down to a weekend in Costa Mesa spent with Kaitlin's family! We were sooo stoked to go down there that instead of leaving Friday morning we took off after work on Thursday. Our 6:30 departure turned into 7:00...turned in to 8:00... OH WELL! Sometimes you just gotta go with the flow and we were in NO hurry! We made sure to stop off at In-N-Out and get a new found "secret menu" item thanks to Kristi- Double Cooked Fries....talk about a grease bath, but the grils loved them- animal style and all! I had of course the plainest of plain fries and cheesburger! Yum!

We headed out of In N Out about 9:00 and made the long drive down to Costa Mesa in about 5 hours! Woo Hoo! We got in at 2AM to a very welcoming Uncle JD! What a sweet heart he was. He came out and greeted us at our car... I am just glad he found us in the car and not in the middle of the cul-de-sac.....but that is another story......