Take A Bathroom Break Everyone, This Post Is Long...

I'm so sorry everyone!  I've missed blogging and I'm happy to have a moment to share all my CA fun!  I've been in Chico since Thursday and it's been a tight agenda between friend visits and going to our favorite restaurants! Not including our loved ones, restaurants is the thing Matt and I miss about Chico the most!

I started by going to The Bear, my very first restaurant I ever went to in Chico and met up with Jen.  I had my Jiffy Burger and had a great time catching up with Jen.  PS - if you are wondering what a Jiffy Burger is, it is a burger with peanut butter!  Oh yeah, I know, I know, you are gagging right now.  But don't knock it until you try it!

I miss it already!

Next I got my favorite peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies at Upper Crust with Jen.  I bought a couple extra to last me throughout the weekend!  :)

Then I went and got my hair cut and they did a fabulous job!  After that, I had some extra time before seeing my friend Chris, so I went to my old hangout and got coffee at my favorite place that was converted from an old train car.

Here is Chris and I at Cocodine, our favorite Thai restaurant!!!!  :)  Look at the cutie haircut of mine (if I do say so myself!)

OK, so then the next day I got a fabulous massage from my friend Tia and boy did I need it.  My poor little muscles were popping all over the place!  I had some time to kill before lunch so I went next door to Orient and Flume - an amazing glass artwork shop.  They were demonstrating glass blowing at the time so I was able to check one of the artists making a glass bird.

The glass starts in this huge oven.

This is what it first looks like before it's cooled, re-heated and shaped

After quite a few times of the glass being spun, shaped and placed back into the oven, it started to take shape.

It was amazing to see how flexible the glass was at such a high temperature.

And after much work, this was the end result.  The artist broke the bird off the metal stick and off to the oven it went to bake.  Fascinating!  

I then met up with Jill and Jen for lunch at Broadway Heights - once again, a very yummy meal!  :)

Thought I would include a few pictures of downtown Chico, I miss the downtown!!!  

Afterwards I went to see our friends Lori and Jeff and their 1 year old, Logan.  He's grown up so much!  Of course I got some great pics.  :)

Here is Jeff and Logan - Jeff's look of excitement can be explained by the t-shirt Logan is wearing.  Matt and I went to Ann Arbor and got Logan a U of Michigan shirt so he can waist no time to become a fan!

And here is Lori, a very proud Mama.  As she should, Logan was an angel the whole time I was there!  :)  He is such a cutie bug.  Since Lori, Jeff and us used to be neighbors, I had to drive by our house and it was a little sad to see other cars in the driveway.  But thankfully it looks great and I'm sure the new family is very happy there.

OK, so I need to get ready for church now... I'll have to cut this blog short.  But I will post the rest of our Chico visit before we take off on our cross country trip on Monday.  :)