Memorial weekend in Santa Barbara

First, I feel I need to apologize for my photos in this post. I accidentally grabbed the wrong camera bag, so I got to Santa Barbara with my old Nikon and the wrong lenses. This explains why nearly all the photos were shot using the same wide angle lens.

Our friends' wedding in Santa Barbara.
I wasn't in the photo-taking mood, so I managed to only get one photo of the newlyweds...



Ryan met Kira (the bride's niece) about a year ago. Here's a link to a few photos from their first play date and below is a video of Ryan and Kira at the wedding reception....


Annual I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival at the Santa Barbara Mission.
In the seven years that we lived in SB, we never once went to this festival. Now as tourists, we found it so interesting that we had to go twice. We went there on Saturday just as the artists were beginning and then again on Monday to see the finished product. It was pretty amazing what they were able to do with just chalk. The slideshow below contains two sets of before & after photos....


It was nice seeing A/C and the Twins again. It was nearly one year ago that we last went to the Santa Barbara marina and took photos of the three kids. I'm glad we were able to recreate the shots....


I introduced Ryan to my favorite Santa Barbara smoothie. I think he likes it too...


Here's Amelia now....
(link to Amelia and Ryan in March 2010. Check out Ryan's flat, pre-helmet head)


Goleta Beach....