So we're in Anaheim now, ready to begin the 2nd part of our trip. We landed in CA on Saturday and immediately went out to the Los Angelos County Museum of Art. The idea was to see the Burton exhibit which was pretty cool. I had no idea that he did his own art (which is just being naive) but they had a LOT of it. I had to admit that my favorite part was the room that had the catwomen suit, the edward scissorhands suit, the batman hats and the penguin baby carriage but that's because it was a room that was all about the movies I loved.

The best part of this art musuem however was definitely "Five Car Stud". If you are in CA please go see this before it leaves in January. Absolutely amazing piece that blew me away. I was not prepared for something so amazing on Saturday. Please go see it.

After this we drove down to San Diego. On Sunday we checked out San Diego (the Gaslamp district and the seaport village). On Monday we hit the zoo. Today we checked out San Clemente on the way back to Anaheim. San Diego is amazing in that there is NO TRAFFIC it would seem. LA has plenty (as we found on Saturday night going to San Diego) but we found none since getting to San Diego. It was a great couple of days. That zoo is too big for one day, so we saw what we could before getting too tired. We also saw Horrible Bosses on Sunday while wandering around. I enjoyed it (as I knew I would).

Everywhere that we ate was pretty good. I'll be making another blog post later detailing all of the places we ate while here :) We are mainly using Yelp to find places and so far it's been great. We also used Priceline to find a hotel in San Diego and it worked out great!

So I ended up buying a new iPhone 4s on the apple website.

I couldn't see myself paying upwards of $300-$450 for an iphone 4 (buying one completely new out of contract on ebay or through AT&T etc). That just didn't make sense.

What I would LOVE to do is buy a new phone completely out of contract so I wouldn't have to renew but then the cost becomes $500-600 for any new phone (iPhone or not). This is just ridiculous. I feel like I'm avoiding contract troubles by paying more money to the people I want to be avoiding anyway.

So in the end, I do the only logical thing... which is exactly what all of these contracts and pricing structures are setup to do. I buy the newest phone, out of contract which also RENEWS my contract screwing me for when the iPhone 5 comes out.

So it seems like until our government wakes up and starts instating laws that actually help people (not likely) AT&T will keep winning while providing shitty service.

Edit: I also looked into canceling AT&T and switching to another carrier but with my wife and I on a family plan that involves paying TWO canceling fees and stuff like that. It doesn't work out financially.

Just had my phone stolen out of my car while traveling in Ithaca. Accidentally left the car unlocked (didn't think I did) and accidentally left the phone in the car.

The worst part about this? Due to normal cell phone contract bullshit, to get the SAME PHONE I HAD I now have to pay 399.99... I paid $200.00 for the phone new of course. Complete bullshit.

Notes for others: always have a passcode on your phone. That way the people who steal it can't wipe it before you are able to use the location features to find the phone :-(

I would gladly throw my $199 for a new iPhone 4S but according to the apple store website it would cost me $450 currently due to my contract... I hate cell phone contracts. So I guess most current iPhone 4 users won't be able to upgrade at a reasonable price.

EDIT: Some other iPhone 4 users have responded via twitter with the same message. We all have to wait until Feburary if we want to upgrade :-(