Brenda, Lisa, and Scott arrived in LAX on Wednesday, June 9. I picked Scott up around noon, and we hung out in Culver City. While we were there, we got to hang out with a bunch of paparazzi who were stalking Brad Pitt at Sony Pictures Studio. We also saw the hotel where the Munchkins stayed while they were filming the Wizard of Oz in Culver City. Apparently those little people had some wild shenanigans going on!
That evening, we met up with Ramy, Rebecca, and my mom at LAX to retrieve the girls. Then we went down to the seaport in Marina del Rey for dinner that night.
We took them back to Chino Hills to the hotel they were staying at across the street practically from our house. I hung out with them for a bit, until we got so loud that we got a call to shut the heck up. So I decided I better go home!
On Thursday, the whole group came over for breakfast. Then we hit the road to Los Angeles. We drove around in downtown to see the famous sites there and then kept heading west . The first stop was at the Griffith Park Observatory. We took lots of shots of the Hollywood sign and enjoyed the views.
Scott particularly enjoyed the James Dean statue, while Rebecca was more interested in running and jumping.
We also hit the other famous sites in Hollywood, including Grauman's Chinese Theater, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and the Kodak Theater.
On Thursday evening, we got fancied up and went into Orange County to attend the theah-tuh (imagine theater with a heavy aristocratic British accent). We saw The Lion King musical onstage at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, and it was wonderful. Rebecca loved it, although she didn't particularly care for Scar. It was a blast!
On Friday morning, everyone else got the opportunity to sleep in for awhile, but I had to be up and hit the road at 7:00 a.m. to make it to Loma Linda for rehearsal for graduation. It was a complete waste of time, other than that it gave me the opportunity to talk to some of my colleagues who I hadn't seen in awhile. After the graduation, Julie and I met up with our collective families for brunch in Rancho Cucamonga. Rebecca was overjoyed to be reunited with her friend Addie.
Unfortunately, we didn't have enough time for Julie and myself to have our usual leisurely shopping adventures. After brunch, we had an outing to the nail spa and got mani's and pedi's (well, not Ramy...but everyone else!).
On Friday afternoon, we drove up the coast to Malibu. We had a blast on the beach there!
Rebecca was a little bit scared of all the waves, but with some coaxing, she was willing to get her feet wet.
She still much preferred playing in the sand....and covering me with sand!
There on the beach at Malibu, we had dinner at Gladstones. I hadn't been there since the summer that I was pregnant with Rebecca, when our friends Brian and Stephanie were visiting us. Thankfully, I wasn't nauseated the whole time this time!
Brennie and Lisa got down to business on a few pounds of king crab legs.
That night, the girls (minus Mom and Rebecca) went to see Sex and the City 2 at the movies, while Ramy and Scott went to see some guy flick.
On Saturday morning, the out of towners slept in again, and I took Rebecca for her photographs for her dance recital. In the afternoon, we went to Huntington Beach to soak up some more rays.
After beach time, we drove south into Los Angeles again and had dinner at Lawrys.
After that, it was time to get a little bit of shut-eye for the big day....
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