we <3 socal (part deux)

alas... discovered a distinct paucity of pictures to document the rest of our socal stay. BUT that is not to say we enjoyed that unimmortalized-by-film time any less than our previous days. with that in mind, let us start with a picture (not even my own- stolen from yelp) of what we had been CRAVING for the past few months...

yes. CHA DOL. ooooh how we missed you. we got our fill of the yummy meat on friday night, with jimmy, susan, diane and ida in attendance. we ate to our heart's content, then stuffed ourselves with yogurt d'italia afterwards. a perfect way to end a lovely OC day~ we'd had brunch in YL, and spent the rest of the day like pampered OC housewife & househubby wandering around south coast plaza.

saturday- church and requisite yogurt-run afterwards. good times to be had at CKSDA. then we headed to k-town to pick up our new ride..... *drum roll*..............ah yes. the new car. all nice and shiny in that glamour shot, no? SO the hubby now has a new commuter car- nothing fancy, just a civic. and no, we could not afford the hybrid- $5000 > base price for our model!!! jeez... tho it definitely hurt my ego as a supposed hybrid-lover/green-advocate to have to forgo the "status symbol" car, our model's mileage and emissions ain't too shabby... and as andy and i tell ourselves, we'll go green when we gots green.

so now that we had a car, we had ourselves a ride back up!! (and a nice southwest credit to boot)
we drove up on sunday morning, but couldn't resist a detour to westwood. why, you ask? well, as yogurt fanatics... we had to try red mango before heading back up. all that fuss about pinkberry biting off red mango, pinkberry NOW being a "real yogurt", etc..etc... we decided to see for ourselves.... which yogurt would reign supreme?

here's andy's answer ------------>

pinkberry foreva!!!