Day 3

Day 3 was downtown LA day. Ok maybe not DOWNTOWN LA (no gangs and muggings) but pretty darn close.

First we went to Santee Alley in the fashion district, recommended to us by sister-in-law Jenne. It was super fun... even Paul the anti-shopper enjoyed it! Basically it's a 3 or 4 block long alley filled with street vendors with knock off everything; purses, shoes, sunglasses, suits... everything. We both got a pair of sunglasses for 5 dollars. I got a super cute purse. And Paul bought a Nintendo-like game system that had over 100 games stored in it... for his brother Aaron.

From there we went to Chinatown... and let me preface this by saying I was REALLY hoping for a dragon parade and the like. But alas no dragons, it was still pretty cool. We got me another purse, a pillow, and some chopsticks AND ate at a restaurant where Jackie Chan filmed Rush Hour. Food wasn't so great... but Jackie Chan was once there!

And my personal favorite part of Chinatown.... Chinatownland! :) loved it!

From LA we drove north to Paso Robles where Paul's aunt and uncle live. LONG drive! But the Paso Robles area is beautiful! I could handle living in THAT part of California. We stayed at my favorite motel there... funny part was that it was STINKY! It smelled like sulfur the whole time. We had a hot tub/spa tub in our room that was fed by mineral water= stinky sulfur water! Gross! But it was super pretty.

Oh yeah... we're probably moving to...

For Paul's school. We've decided we both feel good about chiropractic school and the grandaddy of all chiropractor schools in in Davenport, Iowa at Palmer College. It would be for about 4 years. If we moved this year we could cut off a year of his undergraduate work. They have an accelerated science program at the community college there. So instead of having 2 years of college here plus 3.25 in Iowa now we will just have 4.25 in Iowa... FUN!

We've been told that Davenport is a city of extreme weather... bitter cold winters and hot muggy summers. AND it's the 2007 most livable city!

Day 2 of the Honeymoon

Disneyland!

Pardon my ugly pregnant looking outfit... it was really cute in my mind when I put it on... without the shoes, flip flops made it way cuter I promise! But I'm glad Paul talked sense into me and had me put real shoes on, I would have been in agony otherwise!

Anyhow enough commentary on my clothing... Disneyland was day 2. It was my first time there and it was pretty darn fun. But I really can't imagine spending more than a day or two there. I think I would go batty! We rode all the important rides... Indiana Jones, Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, Pirates of the Carribbean (boring!), Haunted Mansion. Ate at pinapple whip at the Dole stand (DELICIOUS thanks for recommending it Hil!) and ate at the restaraunt inside the Pirates of the Carribbean... also quite delicious... and quite expensive. But Paul LOVED it! It was his favorite meal of his life and he would willingly go back to Disneyland just for the food there. (Talk about rave reviews!) Here we are eating...

We deliberately avoided the areas with characters... bah humbug aren't we! But my friend at work really really wanted me to get a picture with or of Eeyore. But after waiting in line for an hour and a half for Splash Mountain we weren't about to stand in line for a picture with Eeyore... so this is as close as we got :)

Then we crossed the street and went to California Adventure... which I think I preferred. It could have had to do with shorter lines and our finally figuring out the QuickPass thing. We went in the middle of the Main Street Parade, meaning shorter lines for us!

We loved California Screamin (super fast rollercoaster) and did some shoot you up in the air really fast ride... don't remember what it was called. And rode the twirly ferris wheel... someone took their seeing eye dog on that one... poor puppy!

And the winner(s) is (are)...

JOSH AND MEAGAN!!

They were the first to discover my secret... I'm blogging again!!!

Honeymoon Day 1

We flew into California (Ontario) got our rental car (a sweet Toyota Corolla) for my husband who LOVES Corollas, but it got great gas milage which was good for those California gas prices! And drove to our hotel in Anaheim.
I saw my first ever palm tree growing in the ground (this picture was a few days later at Hearst Castle):

Then we went to the Newport Beach temple, it was beautiful. But we got kicked out after only a few minutes there.

Next we went down to Newport Beach beach... it was funny because I always ask Paul when we're watching movies or TV shows set in California all the girls are walking around town in bikinis and the boys without thier shirts and he always denies it... WRONG! It was totally true here! No pictures of that though sorry, we did see a sea lion on the beach AND saw a dolphin jumping out of the water. Not bad wildlife viewing for a city beach!

And let me tell you what SAVED us the entire trip... the love of Paul's life (and it's not me) it was his...

IPhone!

The directions on there were a lifesaver!!!!

Link to Wedding Pictures

For those of you who don't know our pictures are on the following website:

http://www.mountainswestphotography.com/

- go to galleries

- then go to weddings

- click on us (Ramos)

- the password is: pnramos

Sorry that there are so many, he put them all up. Some are funky faces but we have funky faces so what can I say!

Welcome to the future!

You will all be DELIGHTED to know that Paul and I finally have joined the 21st century and got the internet at our apartment! That means I can join my fun family in the blogging world again! This way I'll be forced to take pictures... and communicate with my siblings. All bonuses. Keep posted for updates :)