4th of July

What a nice and relaxing holiday weekend. We decided to stay in Ventura for the 4th. On Friday we went to a Festival in Downtown Ventura. There were hundreds of booths set up selling, pictures, paintings, crafts, vacations and lots of other things. We bought this photograph below. The picture below is the city of Ventura where we live. It is a beautiful place with perfect weather and very close to the ocean as you can see. We have really enjoyed living here.
We spent the day with the Morris' and had a barbecue at their apartment. The grill ran out of propane mid grilling and Spenny had to go get some more. Kind of funny, but we had great food and then went to the firework show at Ventura College. There were three firework shows in Ventura but we decided on the closest one to the apartment.
As you can see the firework show kept us entertained.
On Saturday we went out with Tyler and his fiancee Jen to the Hollywood Bowl. On the way we stopped at Porto's in Glendale/Burbank area. It is this Cuban bakery that has really good desserts and had some great sandwiches. The picture above is of Jackie eating fried plantains. This is a food I loved eating in the Dominican Republic on my mission and had never really found anything that compared to the fried plantains from the D.R. These were the closest things I have found and Jackie actually really enjoyed them. I was quite surprised. They sure tasted good to me and brought back many memories.

At the Hollywood Bowl we saw Bugs Bunny on Broadway. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra played the songs. While they played there were Looney Toon Cartoons being played on big screens. It was very entertaining and it was a nice relaxing evening. We arrived two hours before it began and had a picnic there and then watched the performance. It was nice to hang out with Tyler and Jen and catch up on everything that has been going on with them. They have been really busy with their wedding plans for next month.
We parked in this parking lot and once we got in there we realized that it was stacked parking, meaning you can't leave until the car in front of you leaves. I was a little nervous we were going to be stuck there for a while waiting for the cars around us to leave. Luckily for us the cars in front of us were gone when we got to the parking lot.
Hopefully everyone had as great of a Fourth of July as we did.