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LA, HB, Hollywood, etc.
Aug. 12th, 2010 02:25 amHad a GREAT, fantastical, exciting week in Los Angeles with Matt's family. We went to:
* Disneyland / California Adventure
* Warner Brothers back lots - guided tour from Dir. Robert Duncan McNeill (Robbie to us), who directs Chuck (we did THIS on my birthday and ended the day with sushi in Beverly Hills!! YUM!)
* Huntington, Laguna, Long, & Newport Beaches
* A surfing competition in Huntington Beach
* Escaped the throngs going to the surfing competition Saturday & Sunday by heading to Santa Monica Pier & other places.
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mondragon, martini_tim, bigsabu, and animbear in that order. Matt & I also went into Echo Park / Silver Lake for Bearracuda (a traveling circuit bear party - much like Blowoff between NYC, SF, Chicago, Ptown, and DC) and met up with about 10 other friends from the LA and Orange County area, which was cool.
This past Sunday (seems like a lifetime ago already), we had a great lunch at the Curry House withmondragon, martini_tim, bigsabu, and animbear and then took off to Karaoke in Fountain Valley. Those two hours were so much fun and filled with lots of good voices, good tunes, and tons of laughs, giggles, photos, and videos (shhhhh! They're coming later!). We had dinner later on at a Shabu Shabu restaurant next door to the Karaoke place, which was like an Asian fondue. At the end, I wish I had done what Tim did by making a soup. The soup base the girl gave us was scrumptious. The whole day felt as if we'd known Tim, Robert, and Reid for years, were old, old friends and we were getting together to hang like we always did. They're such cool guys and lots of fun to be around. It's just a shame they live clear across the country!
On Monday, the first full day Matt & I had to ourselves, we drove to the Hollywood Hills, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, and W. Hollywood. We drove up to Kathy Griffin's house (squeee!) and took pictures and then back down Mulholland Dr.
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We found a few stars' homes and took pictures of the driveways and had coffee just off Rodeo Drive. Then we went to W. Hollywood and hung out at The Abbey, which was VERY pretty.
This is just the big picture description of things that went on. Wanted to bring folks up to speed on where I've been and why I haven't posted in a little while - again. Pictures are on their way! I'll post them separately and some with descriptions in the LJ post.
* Disneyland / California Adventure
* Warner Brothers back lots - guided tour from Dir. Robert Duncan McNeill (Robbie to us), who directs Chuck (we did THIS on my birthday and ended the day with sushi in Beverly Hills!! YUM!)
* Huntington, Laguna, Long, & Newport Beaches
* A surfing competition in Huntington Beach
* Escaped the throngs going to the surfing competition Saturday & Sunday by heading to Santa Monica Pier & other places.
We met up with
mondragon, martini_tim, bigsabu, and animbear in that order. Matt & I also went into Echo Park / Silver Lake for Bearracuda (a traveling circuit bear party - much like Blowoff between NYC, SF, Chicago, Ptown, and DC) and met up with about 10 other friends from the LA and Orange County area, which was cool. This past Sunday (seems like a lifetime ago already), we had a great lunch at the Curry House with
mondragon, martini_tim, bigsabu, and animbear and then took off to Karaoke in Fountain Valley. Those two hours were so much fun and filled with lots of good voices, good tunes, and tons of laughs, giggles, photos, and videos (shhhhh! They're coming later!). We had dinner later on at a Shabu Shabu restaurant next door to the Karaoke place, which was like an Asian fondue. At the end, I wish I had done what Tim did by making a soup. The soup base the girl gave us was scrumptious. The whole day felt as if we'd known Tim, Robert, and Reid for years, were old, old friends and we were getting together to hang like we always did. They're such cool guys and lots of fun to be around. It's just a shame they live clear across the country!On Monday, the first full day Matt & I had to ourselves, we drove to the Hollywood Hills, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, and W. Hollywood. We drove up to Kathy Griffin's house (squeee!) and took pictures and then back down Mulholland Dr.
View Larger Map
We found a few stars' homes and took pictures of the driveways and had coffee just off Rodeo Drive. Then we went to W. Hollywood and hung out at The Abbey, which was VERY pretty.
This is just the big picture description of things that went on. Wanted to bring folks up to speed on where I've been and why I haven't posted in a little while - again. Pictures are on their way! I'll post them separately and some with descriptions in the LJ post.
