People all over the world...

While living in Russia two of my good friends there were Cam and Sonja.

(Deb, Sonja, Cam celebrating Cinco De Mayo in St. Petersburg, Russia)

(Sonja and I at the Red Lion - and "English" pub in St. Petersburg - on Ladies Night! Hence all the cups on cheep champagne they kept bringing that we were not drinking!)

Cam and Sonja fell in love and got married! YAY!

However, Cam is from Australia (not that Sonja lived super close either, she is from the Seattle area) and they are currently living in the land of Oz. Due to visa renewal guidelines Sonja had to come back to the states for a few weeks and then on her way back "down under" she ended up with an 8 hour layover at LAX! Seeing how it is summer and all and we haven't seen Sonja since their wedding we were more than happy to jump in the car and make the drive out to see her.

After a quick stop at LAX to feed Bennett (he slept the whole way but woke up about 30 min out, and he was starving!) we headed to Santa Monica to enjoy the PERFECT weather! We walked the Pier and wondered through 3rd street and just talked about life. It was such a great day!

Sonja and I were having so much fun trying on all the head bands at Anthropologie! We must have tried on 5 to 10 each! These were the last two that we tried on - you can see from the "seriousness" of these pictures the amount of fun we were having with these amazing head bands. These were for sure not the cutest ones we tried on, if you want to see the others click here - we also found the most amazing chair!

We had a great dinner at CPK and Bennett and Sonja really enjoyed playing with one another!
Sonja loved her cuddle time with Bennett! He was fading fast as we were heading back to the car. We changed him and put him in PJ's and he slept the whole way home! (This was Bennett's longest car trip so far and he did really well!)

It was such a fun day! I'm so glad that it worked out for us to meet up! Sonja, so good to see you, come back to California soon and bring Cam next time too!