Cinco de Mayo...almost

I was in downtown Santa Barbara on Saturday May first and ran into an early Cinco de Mayo festival. The down town area is gorgeous! Lots of adobe buildings.


Part of a Spanish mansion from 1828

Shopping downtown

Turned a corner and found this really cool staircase and a balcony above.

The Santa Barbara Mission

Founded in 1786! Boy I really wasn't paying attention in my history classes!!

A tree with crutches!!

When I first moved out here I organized a trip to the channel islands for a group of friends from the east coast that were here temporarily as well. Here is the link to a ton of gorgeous pics in case you are not on facebook. You can access the album without a facebook account! Enjoy!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2054509&id=1520514194&l=bf2f6f4e29