Trip to Santa Barbara and Los Angeles
This past weekend(Nov 13,14), myself and three other Google interns from University of Waterloo went on a trip to Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. While Los Angeles might seem like a typical destination for a US visitor, one might wonder - "Why Santa Barbara? What's so special about it?" Well, as it turns out, back in the day a lot of us were avid viewers of soap opera "Santa Barbara", an so were kinda curious to see what the real Santa Barbara city looks like.
And so, early morning on Nov 13 we departed to Santa Barbara on our newly rented Kia Rio. The weather forecast looked very promising - around 23 degrees celcius for both days of the weekend. Amazing, considering it's a middle of November.
We arrived in Santa Barbara around 4PM. The town looked great. However, it somehow felt like a toy town. It's hard to explain. If you've watched the movie Truman Show you'll understand what I mean. Seems like people don't really work there, but rather just "chill" all year long. Half the restaurants there only serve dessert, yet most people look very fit. Most women are blonde, and look gorgeous. Even homeless somehow don't look too poor. Very very weird.
After hanging around Santa Barbara for a few hours, we headed to Los Angeles. Amazing city. Expensive cars(Lamborginis, Ferraris, Porshes, Mercedeses etc) are as common there as Civics in Toronto. It seems like one needs to be a millionaire in this city. I wish we had more time to spend there, as there there are literally hundreds of places to visit there. As is, we've spend considerable amount of our time on Venice Beach(I'm told that this is where Baywatch is based), Beverly Hills and Bel Air. All of these places looked awesome.
Tired and exhausted we departed back home Sunday evening. Overall it was a great trip !
And so, early morning on Nov 13 we departed to Santa Barbara on our newly rented Kia Rio. The weather forecast looked very promising - around 23 degrees celcius for both days of the weekend. Amazing, considering it's a middle of November.
We arrived in Santa Barbara around 4PM. The town looked great. However, it somehow felt like a toy town. It's hard to explain. If you've watched the movie Truman Show you'll understand what I mean. Seems like people don't really work there, but rather just "chill" all year long. Half the restaurants there only serve dessert, yet most people look very fit. Most women are blonde, and look gorgeous. Even homeless somehow don't look too poor. Very very weird.
After hanging around Santa Barbara for a few hours, we headed to Los Angeles. Amazing city. Expensive cars(Lamborginis, Ferraris, Porshes, Mercedeses etc) are as common there as Civics in Toronto. It seems like one needs to be a millionaire in this city. I wish we had more time to spend there, as there there are literally hundreds of places to visit there. As is, we've spend considerable amount of our time on Venice Beach(I'm told that this is where Baywatch is based), Beverly Hills and Bel Air. All of these places looked awesome.
Tired and exhausted we departed back home Sunday evening. Overall it was a great trip !
Comments
I do read all of your blogs every few days. I find them interesting, pictures are great too.
From the looks of it you guys are having tons of fun there, traveling the west coast all the time...
Santa barbara sounds great! What else is there to ask? Good weather, nice cars, good looking women and toy houses....
Jenia D.