It's another late night for us...but so totally worth it. We spent today in Pasadena visiting Candace before she leaves the country. It was SO nice to see a familiar face (as it has been with other visitors). Today was one of those days that made you realize that it doesn't really matter what you do when you have good company. We spent most of the day just walking around Old Pasadena and window shopping. We stopped in Gap (only to buy socks, though. I wore the shoes from our wedding...which were MUCH more comfortable that day, for some reason....and quickly ended up with blistered, painful feet...so we bought socks hoping to remedy that. Of course, while they helped the blisters, they made the shoes too tight, so my feet are happy to have a break), Crate and Barrel, an antique store that was going out of business, a lawn furniture store, and a couple other places.



An awkward specimen of a wedding dress we found in a boutique as we were walking. Candace's question was if a man or woman would design a dress with such, shall we say, attention drawing flowers. Wow.

Somewhere mid-walk, we stopped at 21 Flavors, a frozen yogurt place recommended to us by one of Adam's co-workers. It was good...even though I immediately spilled chocolate on my shirt. Oh well.



Candace and I enjoying our frozen yogurt treats.



Adam...on the other side of the table...enjoying his selection.

We found this little courtyard place to sit and eat our snacks. It was nice and a good place for people watching. We started our journey here and returned a couple times in the day to take a load off. The restaurants in that area, however, were a little pricey, so we traveled on in search of a place to eat. We eventually decided on a sushi bar. I was a little frightened because I didn't know how much I'd like it. It was alright...but my favorite was the Philadelphia roll. We also learned that soy sauce that says less salt doesn't mean a whole lot...it's still very salty. Regardless, though, we all enjoyed our meal.



Adam and Candace at the sushi bar.



Adam enjoying some of Candace's shrimp sushi.

By the time we were done with dinner, we realized it was a lot later than we had thought and how fast time flies when you're spending it with good people. We walked back to the parking garage and headed back to Candace's campus to say farewell. Here's a view from the parking garage of where we spent our afternoon. It was a lot more impressive from the ground :).



We had tons of fun with Candace and didn't want to have to leave...but knew that we had to. We said goodbye, fired up the GPS, and went on our way. For whatever reason, the GPS took us a completely different way to get back...and while it was very pretty...it was also very windy and made Adam a little tense. We did a lot of going up and down and around and all over mountains. This is just a little taste of the long (and far more scenic) ride that we had



So now we're back home in Rosamond. We had a great day and will miss Candace...but wish her luck teaching overseas. Adam's packing for his trip to Texas tomorrow...and I'm going to go get ready for bed. Thanks for reading this and giving us motivation to keep it up. It's nice to recount our days and all we have to be thankful for. Enjoy!