So I think I may be official old today -

Happy 26th birthday to me!!! I had a great day - it really was wonderful. The night before, Doug surprised me with a dozen roses when he came home from work. We woke up bright and early on the 14th - for much like our family doesn't do relaxing vacations I don't do relaxing birthdays - and drove to Anaheim for Disneyland! (See next post). That didn't take long, so we drove into LA to eat at the Farmers Market!

It's REALLY fun!!! The Farmers Market is celebrating it's 75th Anniversary this year - it's connected to the Grove which is a huge impressive outdoor mall. There's only a few stalls that sell groceries still - and those are more speciality produce. It's kinda like if the French Market and Fanueil Hall had a baby - most of the stalls are old deli's, coffee shops, PIE shops (i had a chocolate cream that tasted like Big Nenan's) and, funny enough, an award winning gumbo place!

We ate the deli you can see in the right side of this picture - so good!:

After the farmers market we braved rush hour traffic (I have the worse timing with the traffic, i still don't think about it) to get to the Getty for their evening hours. Unfortunately, I apparently can't read because they are NOT open on Friday evenings! We had planned to do Getty and then supper at the Ragin' Cajun Cafe in Hermosa Beach....but with no Getty our plans were dashed. So we went to Anaheim, did some shopping at a Disney Outlet store, and then supper at Fire and Ice

It's brand new in a brand new shopping center a block from Disneyland. (You remember when we went in Boston). The patio had just opened up early in the evening - happy birthday to me!!!

We saw this as we were walking out - Disney is EVERYWHERE!