Recently Vlad got a bubble ball, so he could really get some exercise outside of the cage. Muffy really likes this bubble ball. I think that's all I can say without getting into too much trouble. Both are alive and well, and both enjoy the ball.


I've decided to see something new every free weekend I have this semester. Kicked it off with a visit to the beach cities, Laguna, Newport, and Huntington. Laguna Beach's residential areas, where they film the tv show, are completely gated off. As a tourist what you can see are the many art galleries and antique dealers in their one street very small very rich downtown. In Newport we checked out Balboa Island, which has the beach bum type of feel, selling beach food complete with a mini carnival. We had lunch and this place that I thought was a dark biker bar, but actually served really good generous portions. From here we proceeded to Huntington Beach. It's really like a college town full of watering holes and beautiful people. All the houses look like fraternities, they've got school flags hanging from their balconies. The only real difference between this place and say, Santa Cruz, would be the very expensive exotic cars. It's a type of genetic lottery to live here, be rich, beautiful, and young, and not have to do any real type of labor to support the lifestyle. On the way back we stopped by Fashion Island, which has huge koi with flowing tails in its koi pond, and a pet store that sold cornish rex cats!

Oh, and of course I went to the beach. In the middle of January. You've gotta take advantage of the lack of winter, otherwise one day you'll be in Boston, and it'll be snowing outside, and you'll have all the things you could desire, except you can only watch the beach on television, because of all the snow outside.