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Our Visit to Disneyland!

Noodles and I went to Disneyland today!

We saw Mickey!



I got to shake his hand!

Mickey was kind enough to pose with the two of us. I had no idea how short Mickey is. Noodles is actually taller than Mickey! Only his ears give him the apparent height advantage. What a great guy. He took the time to pose with us while controlling a Multi-Billion dollar company. Take that all you CEO's out there!








Noodles got stuck inside a toy box much like Buzz Lightyear was incarcerated in his own toy box in Toy Story 2 by a fresh out of the box Buzz who was unaware of reality. She found her way out of the box, and made it onto the Heimlich ride in A Bugs Land.
























I rode it too. The ride was actually pretty fun. It was very slow moving, but the various comments from Heimlich (although the voice was different from the movie) were funny and kept the slow ride interesting. It was a great experience, and if you have kids, they would love it.



Although we didn't take any pictures of them, we were impressed by the amount of fruit trees located throughout A Bugs Land. We saw Peach Trees, Plum Trees, Fig, Lime, Apple, Pomegranate, Persimmon, Walnut and Cherry trees. I'm sure there were more, but we had moved on to one of our favorite fruits in various forms:














Grapes! They taste great fresh, and sometimes, even better fermented! We spent a wonderful morning at Disneyland, and returned home with a newly refreshed aura. Ready to begin another week of Website work, sewing and so much more. Thanks for checking in. Until next time, this is Sauce and Noodles saying:

Bye from Disneyland!

Juneteenth was today!

We went down the street to Virginia Avenue Park twice today.

First, we went to the Farmer's Market and picked up some super sweet Nectarines, two of which are already gone, some squash for pasta, asparagus, and a garlic cheese that's REALLY GARLICY. After walking home, we quickly prepared to leave and head out to Toy Story 3 which was quite possibly the best movie in the trilogy.

To calm our bellies down after laughing so hard, we stopped off at Susie Cakes in Manhattan Beach before heading to Ross and the Home Depot for a nice little Saturday.

We came back home to Santa Monica and returned for a second time to the park to get some Soul Food and hear some blues at the Juneteenth celebration. It was nice and relaxing down there. Thank you to everyone from the City of Santa Monica and all of the organizations.

Finished off the day adding some cases and links to the website.

Until Next Time...

Moved to Santa Monica

We have moved out of the Marina and now reside in Historic Santa Monica. Pictures to follow.

Hangin' with baby clams at Manhattan Beach

We had just left Las Vegas, NV
after a 36 hour stay with NO GAMBLING:


















and drove straight to Manhattan Beach, CA. What a beautiful Sunday! The weather was perfect. Noodles and I went down to Manhattan Beach to get some Volleyball practice in before visiting our friends in Torrance. Before any practice started, we decided that we were hungry. We stopped off at one of our all-time favorite joints in Manhattan Beach, Uncle Bills Pancake House, to have a BLT on whole wheat bread with sweet potato fries. MMMM. Noodles got Avocado and a thin layer of Mayo on hers, YUCK! I went dry. I got myself an Arnold Palmer, while noodles stuck with the free water. When we finished our meal, we headed down to the beach to knock the ball around. Before practice, we decided to head into the water where we found the neatest thing: Baby Clams



These little guys are so cool! When you walk in the sand, you feel them under your feet like little pebbles. I hope we didn't crush any of them, but if we did, there were millions more that we didn't crush. Seeing them wriggle through the sand was amazing. When we had our fill of the clams, we finally hit the beach volleyball practice. And Noodles got her serve down! What a great adventure! Now, to prepare for our next huge adventure when Sauce and Noodles travel to South Florida for a week of sand and sun, oh wait that's our life all the time! Nevermind.

The day before Running the L.A. Marathon

I am writing this blog post 24 hours before I will be running the 2010 Los Angeles Marathon. There are 25,000 people who will be running in this "Stadium to the Sea" event. I went yesterday to Dodger Stadium to pick up my race Swag Bag which contained a massive amount of advertisements, but, ther was one superb pice of swag I couldn't help but put on right away. A bad assed Census 2010 headband shown here. There is nothing much more one can say about the classy look that our tax dollars are going to but "WOW". Noodles asked me to take this off when she saw me in it. I think it was the ridiculous amount of women that couldn't stop staring at me or the fact that I wore it in public. Fortunately, Noodles was able to convince me to take it off before that convertible full of supermodels drove by. Otherwise, she may never have seen this face again.
There was also a pretty cool LA Marathon shirt. Here is the whole ensemble of awesomeness:
The Marathon shirt itself is actually a very nice shirt. Very lightweight and comfortable, and with absolutely no advertisement on the back of it, and minimal advertisement on the front. Along with the stellar attire, I was also gifted some powdered barley grass juice, one pack of 3 salonpas patches and, what could likely be the best item of all in my swag bag, a 2.5 ounce bag of cocoa roast almonds. With my epi pen clutched tight, I handed that bag over to Noodles immediately. She said to me: "This is great, I can use it for school" It's good to know that one man's trash is another (wo)man's treasure, because, eating one of those almonds would put me out of tomorrow's L.A. marathon, and then, all of this studmuffin attire would be worthless. Thanks for the free stuff all you companies out there. Let's RUN!

Lady Gaga Ft. Beyonce "Telephone"

I am excited about music again. Lady Gaga has proven to me that music is in fact not dead as I had previously thought. Thank you for bringing back the Music Video as an artform and making music mix with outrageous fashion as it always should.

Blogging for fun.

I'm watching The Biggest Loser right now. I love the show. It reminds me constantly of why I watch my weight. I see how much work these people put in week after week to just lose a few pounds. They are trying to undo decades of abuse to their bodies within a 3 month show. Amazing! I step on a scale nearly every single day. Some of these contestants haven't stepped on a scale in years, many of them say that home scales cannot go high enough to report their weight. Noodles and I are always running, biking, and now, playing volleyball together. Be active, you're going to enjoy life more.

Cupcakes!

Gotta love em!

Volleyball in a Sandstorm

Noodles and I set out today to get some beach volleyball practice in. We were ready! Too bad the wind was so strong that by the time we got to the beach, our legs and arms and faces felt like we were being sandblasted. No worries. We turned around, got some coffee and headed back home. At least we made an effort!

Training Run for the LA Marathon

I went for a great run yesterday in training for the LA Marathon. Twenty-two (22) miles of a tour of Los Angeles. We started in Chinatown at the main gate:

We turned right at the light and went through some shady neighborhoods before running through Silver Lake and then into Hollywood. Man, nobody outside of the LA area ever knows how dirty Hollywood really and truly is. The sign is about the only clean thing about this town.



Having weaved through the denizens and tourists of Hollywood, we continued through West Hollywood and down Sunset Blvd towards Beverly Hills. When we hit the intersection of Sunset and La Cienega, the Heavens opened up and within 2 minutes, our comfortable run through LA became a rain soaked trudge through shallow rivers flowing down sidewalks. Every intersection became a challenge of jumping over fast flowing streams of runoff, while avoiding cars that wouldn't dream of anyone being a pedestrian in rain suited for Noah's Ark. For about 5 of the 22 miles, we ran in this rain. The rest of the run was uncomfortable. We ran down Rodeo Drive to Wilshire Blvd, hit the Wilshire/Santa Monica intersection and turned around. What a run! I'll be ready to smash my original marathon time of 4:08 I logged in the Palos Verdes marathon in 2009. I'm shooting for 3 1/2 hours. Wish me luck.

First Post

Hello World,

Sauce and Noodles are blogging from here on out. We will post a variety of activities based on our daily lives. Our daily lives usually revolve around our bicycles, running, sewing, emailing, posting, re-listing and so many other wonderful things. You'll see pictures, videos, stories, and more. I (Sauce) may even have a post here about some WILD AND VIVID dreams that seem to frequently occur in my deep sleep.

Sincerely,

Sauce