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Sand and Teeth, the knitty gritty of my trip

I know I’ve been slacking, like most excuses: I’ve been busy. Needless to say, lots of posts on the way to catch up. So… yeah I definitely didn’t get a chance to blog while in California ( called it!) but in consolation, I didn’t get a chance to go to the beach very much either.

I’ve mentioned I work on teeth for a living. “What do you do?” you ask. Well, it’s hard to explain since I wear multiple hats, but in a nutshell I started off as an assistant and now I manage the office. I hope to finish as a dentist one day. Any who, California called and asked if we wanted to learn more about Lumineers, an advanced type of veneer. So our clinical team headed down to the Santa Barbara/Santa Inez Valley area where we drove about an hour north to Santa Maria. We stayed at the historic Santa Maria Inn where we heard from multiple sources was haunted. Regardless, (and yes something questionable did happen) it was beautiful but the restaurant had no idea how to make an Italian soda (not being snotty, literally we had to describe what one was lol). Here was where the seminar was held with a bunch of interesting folks. I’ve been to a few of these before but have never had the chance to chat with the families of the offices. I got to sit during dinner with a Canadian dentist’s trophy (compliment) wife. One of the reasons I got into blogging was I enjoy getting a glimpse into other people’s lives (hope it’s mutual). Yes, hers is one lived fully.

On the way there we stopped by the town Solvang (Danish for “sunny field”). Super cute tourist trap where the buildings are adorned with Danish goodness and shopping. If you’ve ever been to Washington, its similar to a town here called Leavenworth except not phony (or German) because Solvang was started by a group of Danish teachers. There still are quite a few Danish people in town. On the way in is where you can find the Santa Inez Mission and we got to tour the historic church. Growing up in the North West, our history doesn’t go back that far. So seeing things from the 1500s blows my mind.

In between was a lot of Dental jargon, it wasn’t until the last couple days that we got to sight see. Explored Pismo Beach and on the way out we visited Refugio State Beach. The Pismo area was neat, but Refugio I have tacked to my places to go back to and hopefully camp. Eventually we made our way back to the Santa Barbara airport which I have deemed my favorite thus far. It has a lot of charm like it hasn’t been touched since the 70’s. Retro or not, the planes here brought us safely back home. PS Alaska Airlines ROCKS, they still serve peanuts and complimentary wine or beer!