Going Back to Cali

Sorry, y'all. It's been a long time since the last post. Just busy w/ other stuff I guess. Anyways, we went to LA for a long weekend a couple weeks ago. Stayed w/ my super-hip uncle Stephen. He and Tim were very gracious hosts and drove us all over the place. I actually saw more of LA in those 4 days than I probably did in the whole year that I lived there.

The weather was unseasonably stormy for our stay. It rained almost every day, but we had a great time anyways. Kathleen and I even went running in the rain one day. The clouds did make for some very nice sunsets, tho. Here is the view from Stephen's porch looking out on Los Feliz.

We saw my friends from Seattle - Nancy and Julia. They took us to a great restaraunt bar called the Velvet Martini (or something like that).

Also we got to hang w/ Kathleen's college friend Megan, who showed us around Pasadena.

We went to Santa Monica beach, but it was too windy to hang out on the sand.

Then we went to Venice Beach. Did you know that Venice, CA actually has canals?

And we did all sorts of other touristy things like going to the Sunset strip and Beverly Hills and Rodeo Drive. The Prada store was actually one of the most interesting places we visited. Very cool design and architecture.