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just last week the hubbinator had to go to Brea, CA.  I like going along and seeing what's around and staying in a hotel, watching TV, swimming in a pool and working out in the gym (yuck!, but I do it anyway). this short trip we stayed at an embassy suites in Brea, adjacent to the Brea Mall.  we visited several comic book stores - yay for comic crawls! - made some time for the Richard M Nixon Presidential Library & Museum , stopped at the California Oil Museum in Santa Paula and at Kula Revolving Sushi Bar. I love museums. like, I really love museums.  have I told you about the time we went to the John Steinbeck wax museum in Monterey?  that's a story for another time.  the California Oil Museum is just that. a museum that talks about oil in CA.  I've been to the oil museum in Bakersfield and it's huge.  I mean 3 buildings at the fairgrounds and outdoor exhibits huge.  and it was interactive.  now this is Santa Paula we're talking ab...

it's that time again and I am excited to share with you the most recent location for the comic crawl.  last year the hubs and I did several comic crawls throughout the Los Angeles area.  this year we decided we would do Bakersfield since we wanted to eat at a particular restaurant there, Wool Growers.  you can read about the restaurant review at my cookinator blog. comic lovers, here is Bakersfield. Stop 1: Silver Wolf Comics a smaller shop with a lot of cosplay stuff and statues.  not a lot of comics.  what they did have was what I consider the "top ten" variety.  basically the big name comics from the major houses.  they also had a smaller selection of back issues. we purchased a zatana statue of her coming out of a spell book.  it is one we haven't see other places. this is how we decide what we want to get on our comic crawls, unusual items we haven't seen on our local spots or items we have been looking for and haven't found ...