Santa Barbara has always been a bucket list item of mine and I’m so glad we made it happen! We had our annual family trip in Newport scheduled for August but we had to move our flights up a couple of days since Wills little brother was returning from his church mission. I figured since we were leaving the trip early we should just start the trip earlier… makes sense, right?
We flew in and out of Long Beach which was a tad bit of a mistake since the drive to Santa Barbara was pretty long and we really only had 24 hours to spend there… but, we made the most out of it and I’m so glad we made it happen.
Ever since my friend Christopher posted pictures of his stay at the Rosewood Miramar resort, I was obsessed (literally everything at this resort is my taste… to a t) but it was a little bit out of our price range (okay or a lot out of our price range) so we opted to just walk through it instead and I took pictures of everything I could 😂 Don’t let these pictures fool you… we really stayed at the cheapest Hilton I could find.. which happened to be the airport Hilton located inside a business park. Haha! Maybe one day we’ll afford to stay here. A girl can dream, right?
But seriously, how dreamy is this resort? I was obsessed with every detail.
The rest of our time in Santa Barbara (you know, outside the time we spent walking around hotels we couldn’t afford which is totally normal, right?) was spent walking every inch of it we could and eating through of all the recommendations I received on Instagram on where to eat. We had McConnell’s ice cream, Los Agaves (so so so good) and Backyard Bowls for acai bowls! I wish we could’ve eaten at so many more restaurants while we were there.
One unique recommendation we received that I loved was to go to the Santa Barbara local farmer’s market on Saturday morning and we loved walking around and grabbing some fresh fruit. If only I could’ve taken all the fresh flowers with me too!
Until next time, Santa Barbara! Which I hope is very, very soon…
-Liv
Outfit details:
Black headbandComes in so many cute colors!)
Cream dress (on sale and will go fast!)
White tennis shoes *use code FPxOLIVIABETH for 20% all of your orders with Fringe
