Visit from Sara and Matt

My sister and her fiance came down to visit over the past weekend. Lindsey and I were eager to share the Southern California sunshine with them, but as luck would have it they came over one of the cloudiest weekends we ever had. Lindsey and I displayed how acclimatized we were as we talked about how we were freezing in the 15 Celsius weather while Matt was sporting swim trunks.

They arrived Friday evening; starving with their luggage lost. We took them to get Mexican food at Tacos 'n Co, a small hole in the wall place in Irvine that makes some pretty good food.

On Saturday, we drove them out to Laguna Beach where we showed them some of the restaurants that were shown on MTV's Laguna Beach. We brought them to the main beach. I was very surprised to see how busy the beach was in such cloudy weather. People were on the beach in only their bathing suits - just amazing! After Laguna, Matt wanted to find a place that would play the Montreal-Toronto battle-for-the-playoffs game. Yes, you heard correct, Matt wanted us to find a hockey game playing in the OC! And not just any game - a game between two Canadian teams. Talk about high maintenance!

Well, we found it at the Fox Sports Grill at the Irvine Spectrum. We arrived nice and early and asked the bartender to put it on one of the plasma screens. Surprisingly, we were not the only ones looking for this game; a strong contingent from Toronto and Montreal were represented at the bar. They were so loud that they got the game and sound played on the main screen in the bar.

Sunday was used to show Sara and Matt Huntington Beach. I stayed back to do some reading, but Lindsey took them out with a special guest, Tia - one of the poddles Lindsey walks. I guess they got some sun out in Huntington and Sara and Matt really enjoyed the area. Huntington doesn't have the dramatic scenery of Laguna, but it has a very long white sand beach and a younger vibe.

On Monday, Sara and Matt headed off alone into L.A. They seemed to have a pretty good time, but unfortunately they took no pictures. Matt had to leave that night in order to make work Tuesday morning. Sara stayed behind to conduct more business meetings and headed out to San Diego on Wednesday.

It was nice having some northern guests to show them the California lifestyle. As an update, I used the flip flops, but they marked up my feet a little bit again.