Beautiful Santa Barbara

Charlie and I traveled with Jose to Santa Barbara and L.A. this past week. We flew into Burbank and then drove the approx 1.5 hrs to the beautiful beach.  Though the weather was touch and go Charlie and I were lucky enough to venture out in the morning and mid-day without getting stuck in the rain.  We did the red tile walking tour which takes you around the downtown area to consider all of the historical buildings, most of which are Spanish :-) I fell in love with the courthouse building and I'm convinced it would encourage anyone to get married there an ditch the idea of a $20,000 wedding to be paid in small payments forever.  Jose had business downtown so I researched hotels and found the canary hotel - very close to state street and the like. It was really reasonable and very cute - I would describe it as a boutique hotel - the kind where they have beautiful books availiable in the lobby for you to peruse when you baby is up at 5:30am :-) It was too short of a trip but we were on business time and I felt very fortunate to have the brief escape before heading to LA.