Eternal Blue Forever Green!

California 2: Angelina 0

I have to completely give up all my prejudices about California now because after this weekend I am seriously in love. Turns out I really need to be in a marine climate. The desert makes me cranky. While the sunsets are beautiful, everything else is brown, tan, beige and more brown.

My license plates came in just in time! Chris snapped this picture of me just before we hit the road.

The drive to Los Angeles was pretty easy. We made it in just under 5 hours. And it's easy to see why settlers heading west thought they found paradise when they hit California. It's all desert, desert, desert until you hit the San Bernardino mountains and then Bam! It's green and luscious and full of trees.

But we broke our first rule of travel. We stayed in a hotel with doors on the outside!

There are exceptions to everything. Our hotel , Hawthorne Suites, was adorable and the rooms were very nice. No complaints here. The first thing we did too was unpack and call Jared. We waited outside the hotel for him and were immediately accosted by some snaggle toothed wanderer who had the nerve to REACH OVER AND TOUCH MY PURSE! But we are partly to blame as we were sitting in the smoking area (it had a bench) and he was stealing butts out of the ashtray and smoking them.

In case you couldn't tell, Chris really hated my blue hair. Ha Ha.

Then we broke our second travel rule : Only eat at places you couldn't eat at at home. We had lunch at The Cheesecake factory in Redondo Beach. Eating at restaurants is a bit of challenge now that we know Chris is allergic to egg whites. Eggs are snuck into a lot of things. He ordered the lettuce wraps which was a safe choice but he also ordered some buffalo chicken wonton things. I warned him that they probably use an egg wash to seal the wontons but he wasn't having it. His love of all things buffalo chicken clouded his judgement and 30 minutes later he was scratching all over. It was pretty eye opening to see that just an egg wash, even deep-fried, is enough egg white to get a reaction out of him. His arms and lower back got rashy and itchy. It wasn't pretty.

We had a lot of time to kill when we arrived at Home Depot Center too. So Chris and I toured the grounds and he made me go into the Galaxy team shop. They had Donovan and Beckham everything. It's like nobody else plays for the Galaxy! But I will be the first to admit that Home Depot Center is a nice stadium. The grounds are beautifully landscaped too.

The Sounders had a 1:1 draw against Chivas but we still had a fantastic time. It's clearly been a while since we have been in the Brougham End because 20 minutes in I was exhausted! LOL. Can't sing and pogo like I used too. My favorite part was after the game. James Riley, my favorite Sounder who now plays for Chivas, came over to the ECS section. Only a few of us sang the James Riley song but I thought it was great. Clearly Seattle was more then just a place to play soccer for him and he was definitly more then just a soccer player to our community.