Stace, Vi and I took a Saturday day trip up to Santa Barbara.
We stopped first at the Nick Rail Music where our local store had sent our mandolin, because the strings expert works out of the Santa Barbara location. Unfortunately, he said the mandolin needed so many repairs, it would be more cost-effective to get a new one. But, we enjoyed looking around the store.
Across the street, we found a cool coffee place we'd never have known about, since this part of the city isn't where we normally head. Now that we know, we'll have to return next time we're in town.
We then went to the SB Mission, where we looked around the gift store and saw the Christmas decorations.
We stopped at the marina, where Violet framed this cool photograph of the great blue heron.
After sharing some Japanese food - no spilling of coffees into my purse this time - we walked down the path and Violet took this photo of the cormorant.
Santa Barbara, you're kind of perfect.
We went into the downtown State Street area, and saw falling "snow" soap flakes at the Paseo Nuevo shopping center.
Then we saw that we were in time to watch the "Winter Solstice Parade," an interesting collection of people with lighted costumes and music. Very festive.
Cora, meanwhile, helped a friend filming a music video.
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