The last weekend in January, Kevin, Drew and I, along with our friend Dan got on a plane and flew to LA. One of our good friends from college was getting married there, so we decided to make it a long weekend. So we left Friday morning. The flight there was interesting. We were on one of those little express jets, and in the back, where of course it was not air conditoined for some reason. This did not make the pregnant lady, nor the squirmy toddler happy. Luckily, we brought along our portable dvd player, and Drew is really into baby einstein right now, so we watched one of those twice and he finally crashed, on top of me. So here we are, tiny plane, no air conditioning, hot toddler asleep on top of hot pregnant mommy. Oye. Other then that, the flight was great. We landed in LA about 2pm LA time and went and got our rental car. Dan rented a mini van. It was a pretty nice ride and mm, with another kiddo on the way, a mini van isn't sounding too shabby right about now. Aftre we got loaded in the van, we had the pleasure of sitting in rush hour. Luckily we only had about 15 miles to go, but that took between 30-45 mins.
By the time we got to the hotel, we had enough time to unpack, change and leave for the rehersal dinner, which we were invited to. We also had TomTom (my gps) navigating us, so that was fun, least we didn't really have to keep our nose in a map.
Our breath was taken away when we arrived at the church because it sits on a cliff and our view was of LA in the dark. It was totally beautiful. The thought of a city being 3-D, wow!
So we did the dinner, visited with old friends, headed back to the hotel and crashed. Well, we actually rented a movie on the TV and then crashed. Drew crashed much earlier though.
Saturday morning was nice, we slept till we woke up, ok well when Drew woke up (5:30 am, 730 texas time). Drew politly crawled in bed with us and snuggled for an hour. We had breakfast plans at 9 with Kev and I's old sunday school teachers, the Weise's, who have lived in LA for about 3 years. It was nice to get caught up with them. Emily in an actress and has had jobs on All My Children and The Young and The Restless, as well as had made some hallmark type movies.
Anyways, after breakfast, Drew and I headed back to the hotel so he could nap and Kevin and Dan took on LA. They drove to hollywood and Beverely Hills (15 mins away). They saw lots of cool stuff and they even found Tom Arnold's house (addres that is, couldn't really see the house due to the immense shrubbery surrounding it). While Drew slept, I chilled by watching a movie and ordering some room service for lunch. Get this, I ordered a $7 salad, but by the time they added the tax and fees and such, the salad ended up being $21. I thought I was being cheap. Note: LA IS NOT CHEAP.
Drew discovering the toilet paper in our hotel room
We then got all dressed up and headed off to the wedding. Even more breathtaking of a view in the daytime. Drew crashed during the recpetion, but Dan was kind enough to hold him while Kev and I took a spin on the dance floor.
All dress up with a gorgeous view (mountains to Texans, hill to Californians)
We then drove aorund Hollywood so I could see it, and drove past things like the Kodak Theater (where the Oscars are held) and the Chinese Theater ( where all the handprints and stuff are). Its really not as glamorus as it appears on TV, but still very cool. We were going to get out and take pictures, but as we were looking for a parking spot, it started to rain, so we headed back to the hotel and called it a night.
Kodak Theater (oscar location)
Sunday was awesome. We slept till Drew woke up, 7:30am this time had breakfast and then took on Disneyland. That was awesome. Never having been there I was way excited and the cool thing is, Drew and I could ride all the classic rides like Pirates of the Carribean, Haunted mansion, Peter Pan and such. Drew loved it. It did rain however, but we bought panchos, ate lunch and kept on going. Drew was a camper. he never settled down enough to nap, but never had a meltdown either, and after dinner, around 8 pm he crashed, on Kevin this time thank goodness and we walked around and looked at things in the other park, the California experience. Poor kiddo didn't wake up when we put him in his car seat or when we got back to the hotel, so we just let him sleep in his clothes.
Statue of Walt Disney and Mickey with Cinderella's Castle in the back
Drew, panchoed up and his balloon
Monday after breakfast we headed to the coast. Kevin is very much a beach person, so it was cool just to see it. Too cold to get into, though Drew did put his hands in a few times..
After that it was back to the airport and home. The flight back was an hour shorter then the one on the way there, we had air conditioning this time and Drew slept the entire last half of the flight home. Coming back from the west coast is great, Drew was so messed up on time, he slpet till 9 am on tuesday morning.
The trip was great, it was our first trip just the three of us. Its nice to travel when you don't have a jam packed schedule of places you have to be at a certain time.
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