Our First Anniversary in Ojai

For our first anniversary, we drove up to Ojai for a few days. We stayed at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa. When we got there, our room wasn't ready, so they upgraded us to a much larger room. Here is the view from our balcony...

We spent a lot of time looking at the view, and drinking champagne.

...and eating salami.

The hotel welcomed us with this lovely plate of chocolate-covered strawberries, which we immediately devoured.

In between eating, drinking, and getting massages, we decided to rent some bikes.

Who says helmets don't look cool?

We discovered a beautiful bike path that took us right into town.

On our last night, we watched the sunset from our balcony.

All in all, it was an amazing, extremely-relaxing couple of days. We played cards, laid out by the pool, and ate great food. It's amazing that this little getaway is barely an hour and a half drive from LA!

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Va Va Voom

For Valentine's Day we went to the Lucha Va Voom Valentine's Sextacular at the Mayan theater downtown. The entire event is a crazy mish-mash of comedy, Burlesque dancing, and Mexican wrestling.

The evening's commentators were Blaine Kapatch and Tom (voice of Spongebob) Kenney. We had some shots of tequila, and for a few moments, the room really looked like it does in the above photo.

The Burlesque performers included four girls dressed as cavewomen, trapeze artisits, a guy on a Pogo stick, and Leroi La Girl Boi, who seemed to really be enjoying herself on that chair.

Karis did some amazing trickery with a Hula Hoop. It was sort of like a gay Cirque du Soleil. Er, make that, an even gayer Cirque du Soleil?

There were several wrestling matches. One of the higlights was the battle of the "minis".

Here's one of the "minis" making his grand entrance.

Sometimes the wrestling and the Burlesque collided into one great super blend of stripping and fighting.

Obviously, there wasn't a huge backstage, because the girls and the wrestlers were always getting ready right behind the ringside seats.

This was great because I got to meet some of the "Buxoticas"...

...and Gina got to meet crowd favorite Dirty Sanchez!

Lucha Va Voom was the perfect Valentine's party. They lived up to their promise of "sexo y violencia".

You can see a lot more pictures from our evening here.

THIS AIN'T YOUR MAMA'S 7/11

My new favorite place in the whole wide world is....(drum roll, please)....FAMIMA!! It's silly to think that I would get so much pleasure from a Japanese convenience store, but when I walk into one and see all the yummy goodness they offer I just can't help myself. I scream, "I LOVE YOU, FAMIMA!" Okay, it doesn't really happen that way. I usually just stand there in a trance, absorbed with all the fabulous items they have.

Come on people...They have Pocky! A yummy wafer type cookie coated with chocolate.

Not to mention yummy sushi, fresh salads and interesting drinks you can't get anywhere else.

Thanks Japan! Me love you long time!

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These photos are from a trip to the Georgia Aquarium - May 2006.

The aquarium has a cool penguin exhibit. Children can crawl through a small tunnel and poke their heads up inside the penguin tank. Here's Gina hitting her head as she stands up to pose with the penguins.