Monday, February 25, 2008

welcome to the jungle, meow.

Just a tad behind, but not too bad. Two weekends ago I went down to LA to visit Charleen in anticipation for her up and coming 28th b-day! Once again, the novelty of being an hour flight away was just so exciting! Of course, with that said, my flight got delayed an hour there AND back. Go figure.

So, I got there Saturday afternoon. We grabbed a bite then hit up the Santa Monica/Venice Beach boardwalk. On the way there I saw this on the side of a building and Charleen pulled over so I could take a picture.
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The beach was nice, we walked around for a while and caught a street performance where one of the men in the group jumped over 10 people! Wait, not only did he jump over them, he did a somersault jump over them. It was definitely impressive. Plus they did some break-dancing and balancing poses.
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We got to catch some of the sunset as well.
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Afterwards Glenn met up with us and we took Char out to a nice dinner then glow in the dark miniature golf!!!
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That was fun, I am not very good at it. I think Charleen beat Glenn and I, but I beat her at air hockey!

Sunday more fun was to be had once Jerry and Krysia showed up. We started off with crepes.
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Then it was off to the LA Zoo!

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Not only did we see fun animals, but we also got to enjoy the signage, such as 'don't feed muppets popcorn', and my personal favorite 'fake snake'.
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And what birthday would be complete without cake?
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With our belly's full, we played 90s trivial pursuit, I think Krysia was declared the winner when we gave up, then watched Adventures in Babysitting. All-in-all, a good day.

4 comments:

Akkire said...

what a great photo of Charleen. this sounds so nice. i'm glad y'all have each other out there.

Akkire said...

how you feel about nova scotia is probably how I feel about j's trip to Moab...so I understand. we can whine and cry together. for different reasons and all...

Anonymous said...

Yay to good times! Glad you had fun!
~Raea

Akkire said...

i thought i heard a rumor of a new post...alas, no go.