road trip 2011: good eats

we had so many good eats during our road trip

that i had to dedicate an entire post just for

good eats!

first up: pinkberry

we have frozen yogurt places up here in canada 

but none can compare!

the girls love yogurt

make it frozen, add cool toppings like

mochi and chocolate chip crisps 

and they are in heaven

 next: in n out burger

this burger was delish!!!

my little family and i are by no means burger connoiseurs

but we do like burgers!

(our faves being  dick's and five guys!)

the girls gobbled up a burger each!

too bad i didn't know about their "secret menu!"

up next was: food truck central

the hubs and i each had a lobsta roll from the lobsta truck

he had his with mayo, me with butter

absolutely delicious!!!

my zoe loves sushi

so she got some temari sushi from the fish lips truck

well, you know that my girls and i love cupcakes!

so of course we had to stop by sprinkles

i got my favorite: red velvet

the hubs got chocolate with vanilla butter cream icing

and both girls got chocolate with chocolate butter cream icing

i was a little sad that i couldn't cross off

#4 on my "to do" list:

the nom nom truck!!

their schedule just wasn't jiving with ours

oh well! just gives us another reason to come back....

thanks to ruby for all your delicious foodie suggestions!

this is officially my last road trip 2011 related post

thanks everyone for indulging me with my many, many road trip posts!!!
and a special thanks to my sweet girls and sweet husband
for letting their crazy blogger mom/wife
take photos of their food before they had a chance to eat it
(or sometimes while they eat it!)

hope your weekend is swell friends!

road trip 2011: hollywood & beverly hills

 ok

i am one of those

i love reading those trashy celebrity magazines

i watch tmz and entertainment tonight

i might even have followed perez hilton on twitter

(please don't judge me!)

so of course i had to visit hollywood and beverly hills

of course there were no celeb sightings 

(i guess they only come out during movie premieres?)

so off we went to beverly hills

we scanned the stores down rodeo drive

but decided all the stores were just 

a little too "high roller" for us

 so i took some pics of the girls instead

no celeb sightings there either

but that's ok because if i had seen one 

i would have been too shy to approach him/her anyways

tell me, have you ever had a celeb sighting?

if so, who? and did you ask for an autograph/picture?

road trip 2011: santa monica & venice beach

once again, i proved to myself (and the hubs, though he was not surprised)

how truly nerdy i am

i brought a little (ok, maybe not so little) "to do" list on my vacation

#2 on my list:

visit santa monica

i have only seen it in photos or in movies

it looks like such a neat place, that i had to make sure

i could cross it off my "to do" list

 we had so much fun walking around the pier taking

in the sights and sounds

not to mention that the view was breath taking!

 we really wanted to ride the ferris wheel, but the girls

weren't tall enough to go on...

so i guess we will have to save that for next time!

after walking around the pier, we headed to third street promenade for a little shopping

 (thanks ruby for the suggestion!)

we spent most of the day just enjoying the beautiful view

but later on in the afternoon we left santa monica to drive to venice beach

 venice beach was definitely interesting

full of interesting characters

and full of interesting clinics selling legal "medicine"

(let's just say it's not legal where i come from!)

  

we walked and walked around until finally

my little pia was so tired she wouldn't even smile for me anymore

that's when we knew it was time to go back to our hotel...

until next time santa monica!

we might just drive by you next time venice beach!

road trip 2011: disneyland

the main reason for our road trip was to take the

girls to the happiest place on earth: disneyland

you see, we were suppose to take zoe for her

6th birthday, but the hubs was recently

granted a great opportunity for a career change

he will be in school/training for the next 10 months

5 days a week with no holiday time available to him

so taking zoe to disneyland for her birthday in the summer was impossible

but i thought why wait?

let's do this! and so we did.

as you can see my girls were beside themselves with excitement

dancing in the streets of disneyland

when we asked them what they wanted to do they said:

see the castle where all the princesses live

meet the princesses

meet minnie mouse

they saw the magical castle

got a chance to ride the tea cups



they were able to meet princess ariel

princess tiana

and belle

they were in absolute awe of all of them... it was super cute

i don't think they could believe that they were there

right in front of them!

the longest line up we waited in was to see minnie mouse

(over an hour!)

but it was worth it!



near the end of the day, they were getting the hang of it

and telling us what they wanted to do next!



to be honest, i was a little unsure about taking my girls

on such a long road trip

but because it was so last minute, we didn't have the funds to all fly down

but the girls did awesome on the drive

and all my worrying was for nothing

you don't have to be a huge disney fan

or have watched all or even just a few of the disney movies

you don't even need to know all the characters or princesses

the moment you walk through those gates

you are transported to the most magical place on earth

it truly is the happiest place on earth

and i'm so glad that my girls were able to experience it

road trip 2011: san francisco

we were only in san francisco for one day and one night

looking back, i wish we had stayed for at least another night

the hubs and i have been here before

 but i just love this city, and there is always

something to do, see or eat!

we made sure to visit the golden gate bridge

the girls kept asking me why the bridge wasn't gold
(to which, i didn't know the answer!)

we had lunch at a really cool burger joint named Flippers, hubs practically

died over the burger, it was that good.

while roaming Hayes street, we happened upon Paulette

it was absolute macaron heaven!

and i practically died over the pistachio, it was that good!

we were so sad to leave after such a short visit, but it just gives us 

another reason to come back again soon!

thanks alely for your foodie suggestion, we ate there our first night

it was just perfect and only a few blocks from our hotel!