Old Town Orange

Those of you who are itching for spring are probably going to hate me for the next few days, so I ask you to take this post (and any other springy posts this week) with a grain of salt: for every spring-like day in February, there is a 110 day coming in May. So the grass is not always greener (even if it may seem that way! haha!).

That said, yesterday was an incredibly lovely day. My parents, Chelsea, Grace, and I all went down to Orange County to the Circle at Orange. The Circle is a downtown, open air, pedestrian mall in Old Town Orange. The place is filled to the brim with vintage and antique shops, retro inspired cafes, yummy bakeries (with cupcakes that are to die for!), and trendy hair salons. A lot of the places are overpriced and filled with things that I could get at Goodwill for $1.50, but there are some treasures to be found (which I will show you later this week, I haven't had a chance to photograph them yet). And to top it off, it was about 70F yesterday with a lovely breeze and nary a cloud in the sky! It made for quite a lovely day!

My little heart pitter-pattered!

Grace set up and styled this photo and insisted I take a picture.

The oldest malt shop in Orange.

Yummy Peanut Butter Milkshake!

I called this place Ashley Heaven and died for a little while there.

Yeah, like I said, Ashley Heaven

If this this hadn't been so stupidly expensive I would have so bought it for Charissa's (who's birthday is tomorrow!).

There is more here on my Flickr set.