The weekend that is...it flew by! I'm sitting here watching "Pam Am", I love that show! I missed the new show "Once Upon a Time" which started tonight. I'll have to watch it on Hulu! ..... So I was just thinking....Halloween is only a week away! And Thanksgiving is only a month away!Craziness!!
On Friday night Diego and I drove up to Palmdale ( about a 2 hour drive from LA)...D had a class downtown and then went over to his parent's house. He was wanting to leave his truck there because it needs some work, so I eventually drove my car over to pick him up. I got there around 7 or 8ish. D felt like going for a drive and I had been wanting to get out of the city for awhile now, so we just started driving. D used to go up to Palmdale with his dad when he was younger and wanted to take the back way over there. We drove through the Angeles Forest which took us through these winding roads and up a mountain. There was an amazing view though! Even better than the view at Mt. Baldy in Azusa. We pulled over at a bunch of different turnouts and the view of the stars was absolutely amazing! I saw the little dipper and we both saw shooting stars. I've seen a bunch of falling stars, but had never seen an actual shooting star before. It was pretty cool!
Palmdale was right in the midst of the mountains, it was literally surrounded by mountains, but was like a dessert with shrubs etc. As we were driving, we saw a coyote (w/ a rabbit in his mouth) run across the road right in front of us. So yeah, it was a lot of fun! It was nice to just drive around and see some different scenery! It was a long night though, we didn't get home until 2:30 am or so...haha. So we definitely slept in on Saturday! Some pictures from Friday night:
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| We were starving so we stopped to eat in La Canada... |
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| Our burritos.... |
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| yuuum! The corn salsa is so delicious! |
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| I really liked the decor |
So Diego and I are thinking about taking up a new hobby: gold prospecting! It's actually becoming a lot more popular around here...there are supposedly lots of different spots go gold panning and I'm really hoping that we can go try our hand at it some weekend! We spent Saturday morning looking up information on the whole process!
On Saturday, we went over to D's fam's house in the afternoon. Ate some sopes for lunch. Crystal and chicho were wanting to make some banana pudding, so Alicia and I went with them to the store to stock up on supplies. Afterwards, we went to the Halloween Festival @ Pierce College. They had a bunch of different activities: food, pumpkins for sale, live music, arts and crafts, corn maze, haunted house, haunted trail, etc.
The corn maze was a bit disappointing because it was pretty small (5 acres i think) and it wasn't overly dark. Some of the others wanted to go to the haunted maze and didn't care for the adventure maze so that kinda sucked. We finally split in to two groups. We went through the adventure corn maze and then Alicia, Jessie, Berenice, and Jacob went through the haunted trail.
Here are a few photos from Saturday:
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| Pomgrenate! |
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| it's such a strange fruit! |
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| Edgar showing off the fondant flowers that he and rachel made! |
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| ribbons that they made |
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| Crystal and Chicho were getting ready to make banana pudding, which turned out wonderfully by they way!!! |
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| Getting to the Halloween Festival...We rode with Larry and Alicia... |
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| Alicia! |
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| We rode a wagon shuttle from the parkign to the actual festival... |
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| In line for tickets... |
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| Pumpkins for sale...they were way too expensive though. An average carving pumpkin was about 12 or 13 dollars. |
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| Arguing about which activity we should go to.. |
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| haha |
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| the corn maze! |
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| the trail was really uneven... |
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| We had a little map with different checkpoints |
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| Checkpoint! |
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| We finished the maze! |
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| the scary haunted trail...had a super long line... |
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| Walking over to the food stands.. |
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| yum! |
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| chillaxin... |
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| Posing by the pumpkins |
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| Jacob and Berenice... |
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| Moi! |
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| Our tractor ride... |
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| Diego with his boss and her husband...they were dressed up for a halloween party. We saw them when we got home Saturday night....At first we didnt know who it was but finally figured it out. haha... |
Well, I think I'm going to head to bed. I'll try to write more tomorrow or Tuesday...night all!
