Day 196, September 2nd

We made the drive to California Friday morning, rocking out to some seriously sweet tunes.  When we got to the coast, we changed out of our car clothes, and started our weekend fun.  When I was growing up, my family went to Newport every summer, so I have lots of memories stocked up.  My bestie Rachel went three times with me on the family trip, so Ryan was able to hear about all the fun we had together when we went all those years ago.  I also text Rachel most of the weekend to walk down memory lane with her!
We took the ferry over to Balboa Island, wandered around, shopped a little, and enjoyed the beautiful day.  
I have a picture of me on this little horse when I was a youngin, so of course I wanted to recreate it, this little boy walked by as I was reliving my childhood, and told me I was too old to be riding the horse...so I hit him, no I didn't, but I thought about it!! 
We headed back to Newport, walked around the beach and then had dinner at BJ's, which does contradict my rule about eating out on vacation at a place they have where you live, but I think the Phoenix version is nothing like the Newport version, so it's okay.  When we sat down to read the menus, we noticed that they had the calories next to everything!! Why would we want to know that?!?! Oh California! It was a great first night in California, and we were already super relaxed!