Enjoying the Heat

My wife has been at the head office of the company she works for in Pasadena for the past three weeks.  We had talked about me possibly flying down after she knew how long she would be down there for. I ended up flying down this past Friday early in the morning. For the past few days the temperature has been well over 100F. It is much easier to deal with the heat while you are on vacation rather than working for sure. Yesterday we were downtown LA first at Staples Center then walking around a bit looking at different shops. Out in the open there was a nice breeze to help cool off but being surrounded by high rise buildings the temp reached slightly over 110F or 44C. No amount of wind cools that off.
When we were done looking through The Last Bookstore we decided to drive to Malibu and up the PCH. After managing to make our way through the L.A. traffic and get to the ocean it was amazing how much cooler it was from the air coming off of the ocean.
     Today we decide to drive up to Santa Barbara. We parked at Stearns Warf and walked around for an hour or so then took the water taxi over to the pier. Once their we were able to walk out on the break wall out to a sand deposit "island". We spent about four hours on the beach and decided to take a drive around the town. Santa Barbara is very heavily influenced by Spanish design with some pretty cool architecture.  It is also located in a very hilly area, much like most of California, so when we were driving around we had some very exciting moments with all of the twists and turns and elevation changes, sometimes very sudden changes.
Along with all of the site seeing I also managed to get in a couple of much needed date nights. In a couple of days it will be back to Stony Plain and two  more weeks of being a single parent.  This trip was a nice break for me and I am sure that the kids are enjoying the break from me and seeing their grandparents.