Monday 7 July 2014

Ojai Trip

Last week we did a little exploration trip up to Ojai, California. It is only about an hour and a half North of us so nothing too extreme. We had been hearing a lot about Ojai, a quaint little getaway in wine country. After seeing an LA blogger I follow post about going there, it looked so great I thought we would give it a try - it was also a doable amount of time in the car with the little man. He is not overly keen of the car seat. It turned out to be perfect timing as we had made a family decision not to fly back to go to Christina Lake, a trip I have been doing with my family since I was 6. It was pretty heartbreaking for me since it was the first time in 22 years I wouldn't be going, and I would have loved for everyone to have met and spent time with Henry. As hard as it was, I felt like it was the right thing to do since I have been very lucky to have had the opportunity to travel home for visits a lot since our move. It gave the chance to have our own family trips down here!!.....and I may have made Sam promise this is the only year we would miss going ;)
 
Travelling with a baby changes everything. The amount of stuff in our car was silly, and that was before we realized 30 minutes into our drive we forgot Henry's travel crib...woops! Round two of our trip there went really smoothly. Little Man decided to sleep most of the way after being entertained by my repertoire of songs learned from teaching swimming lessons for many years; Sam was impressed that I knew a song for pretty much every animal under the sun :)
 
Just a little glimpse of Ojai!

 



 

Ojai is very very small and seems worlds away from LA. It is a very beautiful place, surrounded by mountains and rolling hills of orange groves and winery's. We were only away for four days but it was such a nice getaway for our little family. We explored the town, did a little hiking, some swimming in the pool with the little squirt and some drinking of wine on the patio - just what we needed.
 









 


 
 
We stayed at a hotel called the Capri which was interesting. I had heard good things about it and it was pretty reasonable. An older hotel but the rooms had been updated to be quite nice. It had a bit of lets say 'rocker' décor, and after we put Henry down to bed we thought we would sit on our nice patio and read, until we realized the patio light was a strobe light - so we talked in the dark instead. I also mentioned to Sam that none of the clocks worked, when we were going to bed we plugged in the digital clock to have some light, which also was a flashing strobe light-haha. SO WEIRD! It makes for funny memories I guess. Other then a really creepy picture of a cat named Kato that glowed in the dark on the wall, it was quite nice.
 

 



 


Me in my 'cougar' swimsuit as Sam likes to call it. I like animal print and I am not ashamed to say it, if that makes me a cougar so be it!!



 
 
 
We never did get to do any wine tasting, as it was hard to time with Mini Coops...but we drank lots of wine... which was nice and necessary ;) I was also able to delve into my Bridget Jones novel 'Mad about the Boy', which I will just say does not disappoint, hilarious, and exactly the type of nonsense reading that my mind is only capable of handling right now.


All in all Ojai was great and we were glad we saw it and could tick it off the list - onto the next exploration!!

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