4 Potatoes : Santa Barbara

We've had quite the busy wedding season this year, and this past weekend was spent celebrating our friends Dee and Drew in a beautiful ceremony at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. My sister Becky and SIL Stacey offered to watch Luke while we were gone so we could make it into a mini kid free vacation. It was definitely a treat and B and I had the best time.

Friends with the Bride and Groom

B went to school in Santa Barbara and this was the first time we had been there together. He showed me around the old bar he used to work at, all his old local hangouts and where most of his college stories took place.

Butterfly Beach

We had a fun dinner out with friends at Brophy Bros on the harbor on Saturday night and then headed to State street for drinks. I definitely felt OLD visiting all the bars along State Street as it's dominated mostly by college students and probably a few high school kids as well.

On Sunday Blake took me to the Biltmore for the fanciest, most delicious brunch of my life. We sat and ate for almost 3 hours at their all you can eat buffet and sipped on Bloddy Mary's and Mimosas. They had all of my favorite things, gourmet cheese platters, crab legs, sushi, every bread imaginable, caviar, shrimp, all the staple breakfast items and a dessert bar that still has me dreaming. I made it my mission to eat enough to hold me over the entire day, and succeeded.

My first of 6 plates Individual Pots of warm chocolate for dipping "Birdy" Mary and Mimosa

The wedding was Sunday afternoon and they could not have picked a more perfect day or location. The Santa Barbara Historical Museum was the perfect backdrop for their Mexican-Italian themed wedding and the 15 YEARS they have been together was evident when no one there could really identify whether they should sit on the bride or grooms side as their friendship circles are completely intertwined.