Remember how Kamran took me to visit his family in California last August and how I just barely blogged about it? Well, here’s the photodump from the trip that you haven’t been asking for:
We were mostly there for Kamran’s parents’ 40th anniversary, which was celebrated at Javier’s with grandchildren, steak, and my first Sprinkles cupcakes in the form of a cake that spelled out happy anniversary. I got the an:
We visited Kamran’s friend Mike, who has a pool in his backyard like everyone else in California,
made eyes at the googly-eyed flowers in Kamran’s parents’ backyard,
and ate In-N-Out the first chance we got:
(There’s nothing more pleasurable to me than sitting in a drive-thru in a car after almost seven years of not driving.)
We met Kamran’s uncle at the Santa Monica Seafood café for ceviche, crab cakes, ciopino, and fish and chips (yes, even I ordered and enjoyed seafood (and by “seafood”, I mean “the batter and tartar sauce that goes on it”)):
And then went next door to Huckleberry Cafe for some suuuuuuuuuuperfine sweets, including a trifle and a fig that we stole off the tree out back and washed off in the bathroom(!!):
Kamran’s uncle took us to a house he and his partner have been designing to perfection for 10+ years now that had this view:
We drove to San Diego to Balboa Park, which contains the San Diego Zoo, The Museum of Man, the Fleet Science Center, the Air & Space Museum, the Natural History Museum, and a buuuuuuuuuunch more:
The architecture was amazing, and so was the weather. The entire time we were there, his parents didn’t need to turn on the air conditioning in their house. And this was August.
This is not a tiny fanny pack on Kamran’s hip but his camera case, so it’s fine:
At the Natural History Museum:
Kamran’s first 3-D movie (he was only pretending to not be excited for the camera):
A huge, bazillion-year-old tree outside the museum:
On the way back to Laguna, we passed the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, which look like two boobs rising from the beach, and which Kamran . . .
well . . .
I think this is a good place to end this.
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These pictures are GORGEOUS, and you are the queen of the subtle and perfectly-utilized edge burn. You seriously need to make a tutorial and show the rest of the Internet how to do it right.
Now that you’ve pointed it out, I’m embarrassed by how many I used it on! I’m also the queen of liking the way an effect looks and then deciding that all pictures look best that way. But thank you, my pet!
The end? Zing. I died.
That first photo was amazing. I love this. All of this. Your photography skills are truly top notch. Come back to Pittsburgh on a sunny day, promise?
It took Kamran 20 whole minutes to notice that and ask me if I knew I was misbehaving when I posted it. Looks like I’m in for some reflective listening tonight. j/k, j/k.
Thank you! I was actually looking at our Pittsburgh pictures yesterday and thinking:
1) that I couldn’t believe how gray it was.
2) that I couldn’t believe I didn’t make you pose for legit glamour shots, and now Jessica’s going to get first crack.
3) that I couldn’t believe we didn’t take the kids out in the daylight for some non-blurry shots.
But you live, you learn, and you visit again.
What did you do to those in-n-out fries? That’s not on the menu, even the secret one!
=o
Kamran says they’re just Animal Style! And they do indeed look wild.
Gorgeous photos!!! That first one is to die for, so is the one of Kamran with the flowers. And that chocolate thing? OMG! I want to go to California (with you and Kamran) now please.
That would be so fun! Can I please plan a bloggers-we-know-and-Kamran meetup in SoCal for this fall? And can it be at Cheesecake Factory?
Your pictures are SO amazing [of course, the always are!].
And I think you should know that you made me really hungry with this post. Really really hungry.
Aaaaaaand now I’m starving and seriously missing the ocean.
And you are a rockstar photographer.
Nice, nice, nice. That shot of ice cream or whatever looks delish! Like it’s whipped or something. Also, are those pendant lights in somebody’s house? They look super.
I thought your comment was soooooo hilarious when you said “shit of ice cream”. I was like, “OMG, is Stephanie DRUNK and commenting on my blog?!” But then I saw your correction.
Those lights are in Javier’s restaurant, where the anniversary party was, but I agree and want them in my future home.
Your photos are getting too depressing for me.
I might need to break your camera.
Although it seems wrong to deprive everyone of your efforts… so… yeah… I’ll probably just do something to your battery. So you can only take one incredible shot at a time.
Take that, U.M.!
:)