Thursday, May 6th in Santa Barbara

Thursday morning we got on the train in L.A. and rode to Santa Barbara. We arrived around 1p.m., walked 3 blocks to our hotel which was right across the street from the pier and the beach. What a sweet sweet spot it was! We walked out on the pier to try to find a bite to eat. We found the BEST seafood restaurant on the very end of the pier.
Of course on the way we had to stop for mugshots.
On the way back to the hotel we noticed "pelican beach" across from the pier and had to get a shot.
These guys were interesting. I don't know if they rented this thing or they were some kind of a crew who were practicing.
Always looking for a buck someone had these little games set up on the sand below the pier.
This guy was a really good sand artist. We asked if we could take his picture and he said yes as long as we donated to the "arts" so we did.
This was the view outside of our room. We were in a separate building from the rest of the hotel. The rooms were recently added and were really nice!
We took a walk down State Street and I couldn't resist getting a shot of this clock. Note to self and Limo Man.....it's happy hour!
We found another great seafood restaurant on our way back to the hotel and had some drinks and dinner there.
That night we took a walk to the restaurant at the hotel to look at the dessert menu and once we hit the sidwalk all of a sudden we saw hundreds of bike riders coming down State Street to the pier. They had on costumes and had their bikes decorated and were riding in "Cyclemania" which is a month long celebration in Santa Barbara for bike riders. It was dark so I wasn't able to get any shots. It was so cool in Santa Barbara that we're definitely going back.