Wednesday, January 16, 2013

CAPTURED: CALIFORNIA ADVENTURES

Hello!! I took a little blogging break to travel across the country and visit sunny California! Jenny and I have been planning this trip for a couple months and we were so excited to leave Friday morning and spend an extended weekend across the country. This trip was a "kill two birds with one stone" trip for us. We really wanted to visit one of our closest friends, Anica, while she is attended school in Pasadena and we also wanted to turn this into a mini business trip and attend Blogshop video so we could gain some new and excited knowledge for Maiedae!

On Friday, we spent most of the day settling in. We arrived around noon, grabbed a late lunch at In and Out and toured around Anica's school. This was Jenny's first time in CA, so she loved seeing the sights and the palm trees that were as tall as some four story buildings. ;) Saturday was spent touring around the city. We went out to eat, went on the WB Studios tour (so awesome), got to see the set of The Ellen show, took pictures at the Hollywood sign, ate a delicious dinner in Burbank, and went to bed early for a full day of Disney on Sunday! I love Disney. So much! We got there right after it opened and stayed for nearly twelve hours. We rode everything we hoped to, got to take pictures with some of our favorite characters and ate a fancy dinner in the park. It was a blast. Our favorite ride was definitely Space Mountain. This was the first ride we went on and all three of us were laughing hysterically and screaming the entire time.


Monday was a full day of workshop goodness by Bri and Angela. After interning with them in Atlanta for Blogshop, Jenny and I decided to take their video class to learn the ins and outs of shooting and editing. It was a fantastic class that I highly recommend it. I'll be sharing more about what I learned in an upcoming post!

The next morning, Jenny and I had a short coffee date with Anica and then caught our plane back to Atlanta. It was a fantastic trip, and I can't wait until we get to got on our next trip for Maiedae. Matter of fact, we will be leaving on February 1st to attend The Makers Summit in Greenville, SC! So ready for some awesome inspiration and craft party goodness with the ladies from Indie Craft Parade. Please let me know if you are coming! I'd love to connect up with you!

And there you have it! A little brief wrap-up of our trip. Be on the lookout for more details on Blogshop and lots of great posts for the rest of the month!


10 comments:

  1. Such lovely ladies, but good lord does this post make me homesick. I always miss me some California.

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  2. Sounds awesome! So glad you got to go.
    I can only imagine how much you learned. Plus Disney was involved:)
    x

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  3. Looks like you had so much fun! I love Disneyland. It is the happiest place on Earth afterall :)
    http://shannonhearts.blogspot.com/

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  4. I am going to Disney next month when my sister + her two kids visit. I've never been to the one In California and am so excited!!

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  5. Wow. Great pictures! Looks like a great time & I would be making the exact same faces in front of the Hollywood sign too. And would have freaked out about seeing The Ellen Show live. How fun!

    -Chelsea
    chelsandthecity.blogspot.com

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  6. That looks like a great mini-trip you girls had! That's great that you got to see a friend of yours as well :) I used to live in CA, when I was little, and I stil would love to go back someday. Glad you guys had a good time!

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  7. It sure looks like you had fun! Love the pictures! :)

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  8. Seems like a good time! I actually live less than two hours from Greenville and wish I had known about this earlier! On February 1st, there is an event in Columbia called Arts and Draughts that I'm going to for the first time, and I'm pretty excited!

    http://www.columbiamuseum.org/artsanddraughts/feb-2013

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  9. ooooookay small world, i used to work with Anica a couple summers ago! what a wonderful lady i must inform her that she was spotted on one of my favorite blogs.

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