so it was great.

i'm back now, the weekend was great, seeing annie was awesome, everything i'd hoped it'd be. i picked her up on friday evening, in azusa. if you know anything about geography out here, driving from long beach up to azusa around five on friday evening would be at or near the bottom of anyone's list of fun things to do. so yah, traffic was horrible, and missing the exit to get on the 605 on the way back didn't help any.

anyways, we just sorta kicked back on friday night, which was relaxing. annie is one of those people who i can be with and not say anything at all and not have it be all weird and crap. the weather the whole weekend was gorgeous, which was pretty schweet cause we went down to huntington beach on saturday and then drove up to santa barbara on sunday.

i've lived here over a year and a half and hadn't ever been to santa barbara. annie had a relation, second cousin, i think, out there and she wanted to see westmont, one of the colleges she got into, so we headed up there on sunday afternoon. santa barbara's a lil over a hundred miles from my front door, which on a sunday afternoon meant around two and a half hours of driving, and even though i had to get there and back all on sunday, the company was good, and the road trip addict in my hasn't been satisfied in quite a while, so i was pretty stoked to do it, and man, was it ever beautiful, hills overlooking the ocean, gorgeous trees and flowers, just amazing.

so we spent most of the afternoon and evening there, annie stayed there that night, and like i said, i drove back that evening and the trip back was so peaceful and i got to spend that time just being reminded of how cool it is to be around someone who really knows you.

feeling: lucky
thinking of: CA 101
music: "august in bethany" the juliana theory