A shopping we will (still) go!

On Sunday the parents and I took a drive over to Santa Monica Place on the coast. AN outdoor /indoor mall that has just been redone and overlooks the ocean. I will say that going over the mountain to the coast means it is MUCH cooler over there then Inland.
We were wishing we brought jackets...


Pretty place, not that large, with high end stores....


We went to LaSandria for lunch, which for some reason I thought was DIM SUM but it turns out it is really Mexican...Not my favorite! We asked to sit inside, where it was warmer, but the "inside" was not really "inside" so we were cold.....


We all ordered soup. I am not too sure the parents looked too impressed with theirs...Dad had the corn soup which was fairly sweet.


Mom and I had the tortilla soup with chicken. I quite enjoyed it! and it warmed me up a bit...(NEWSFLASH!! ASHLEY Furniture just pulled up with our new living room suite!! YIPPEE!!)



I had left my Nikon D200 camera on the boat, meaning to buy one for up here instead of carting back and forth...I have really missed having A D SLR and finally got a NIkon D90. Not as good as my 200 but it will do! I took pictures left and right..


Apparently Bazza showed me my first Black Widow Spider as well, playing on the pool water heater...You don't want to touch these!






I have a honest real to god Pool Boy!!



And a pool boy supervisor! What a lucky girl I am...



I bought this beautiful caribbean sea stained glass window when we were up in Canada and it now has pride of place in my office here...Along with a rotating photo blog of guest pictures from Promenade...


Then I went shopping for a cooktop. I needed one for the yacht. I, of course, thought I wanted something like this...with no ucky gas burners. Bazza thought I did NOT need something like that, as he said I would have to run the generator 24/7 whenever I wanted to cook anything. Not a problem in my world, although I certainly thought running around turning off other things to run the cooktop was not a great idea....



I thought if I could not have a Jenn Air, that maybe I could have something like this. It has spots for steam vegetables, a deep fryer and a grill. He added it up for me and said it was over $5000.00 I may get it for the house yet one day!!!!




This is about what i ended up with whether I wanted it or not, fairly boring run of the mill gas grill. Sigh. Oh well, at least I will have more then 2 working burners!


The laundry room is starting to fill up with boat stuff...The George Foreman Grill I bought for the boat as there are many times during the winter that grilling on the barbecue on the back deck is just a pain in the ass. Too much wind and too many seas. Bazza says he can live with it needing electricity for the times I need it!


This absolutely BEAUTIFUL piece of machinery is an ice machine that HOLDS 60 lbs of ice!! A true commercial one! None of this namby pamby 13 lbs storage like the one they bought on the boat this winter. Even for me with my blended drinks this should work well. AND it is no wider then the old one, although a lot higher..I am doing a happy dance over this....


Continuing on with boat shopping, these are the new lights for reading lights on the beds on the yacht.....


This is the new cockpit coffee table....


And these are the lights to replace all the flat lights that are on the celings...


These are the new sinks! Yes, I have done a bit of shopping. I think I really need to go back to work now to pay for it all...


Now, don't take this to mean that when you show up for YOUR charter in November that this stuff will all be installed! I have found out over the years that BUYING all the replacements and actually having them in place and working are two different things!