10 tv's not enough for you? apparently not.
after lunch, jess took me to check out 3 possible spots along the beach for the wedding. location 1 was nice, but a little too noisy.
location 2 was cute, liked the green wooden areas, don't know the concept behind why they exist, but thought they'd be nice makeshift alters. nicer than location 1, a little more private, but still too close to the walking pathway open to the public.
location 3 was my favourite. lots of greenery, very quiet, and also had some beautiful landscape for great photos. had a really cool wooden sphere thing and a rose garden.
location 3 was my favourite. lots of greenery, very quiet, and also had some beautiful landscape for great photos. had a really cool wooden sphere thing and a rose garden.
location set, check. invitations emailed, check.
went to bed, bath, and beyond (kinda like ikea, but supersized and hundreds of more products) afterwards to look for a wedding photo album. not much selection amongst the ginormous square feet of products that seemed to have at least 30 of everything. unfortunately not for photo albums. went back to jess', chilled out, went to lisa's dad's 60th birthday bbq @ 6:30pm and ate tons of amazing homemade thai food all cooked by lisa's mom, then back to jess' for 11, cup of brown rice green tea, then bed by midnight.
sunday: woke up at 4:30am, 6:30am, 8:30am, then finally got up at 9am. jet lag still?? went for a run with jess in mar vista next to a golf course, probably the biggest work out i got since i started running again. felt good to run off all this food i've been eating. went house shopping all day with jess for her and her fiance's new place to be. had korean bbq with the 3 M's (marvin, marty, and mike) and mike's girlfriend for dinner, caught up and reminisced about some great fun memories. :)
i'm slowly absorbing LA still and definitely enjoying all the things i've missed. closeness with good old friends who know me so well, without a second thought, they just always know. the comfort of feeling a great amount of history with the person sitting next to me. making peace with the flaws of LA. learning new develpments of the city, i.e. crazy amount of lofts being built, cars, places to eat, etc. and picking up your phone to know at least 5 of your closest friends are at your fingertips. coincidentally, the sun finally came out today :).
xxx rania
went to bed, bath, and beyond (kinda like ikea, but supersized and hundreds of more products) afterwards to look for a wedding photo album. not much selection amongst the ginormous square feet of products that seemed to have at least 30 of everything. unfortunately not for photo albums. went back to jess', chilled out, went to lisa's dad's 60th birthday bbq @ 6:30pm and ate tons of amazing homemade thai food all cooked by lisa's mom, then back to jess' for 11, cup of brown rice green tea, then bed by midnight.
sunday: woke up at 4:30am, 6:30am, 8:30am, then finally got up at 9am. jet lag still?? went for a run with jess in mar vista next to a golf course, probably the biggest work out i got since i started running again. felt good to run off all this food i've been eating. went house shopping all day with jess for her and her fiance's new place to be. had korean bbq with the 3 M's (marvin, marty, and mike) and mike's girlfriend for dinner, caught up and reminisced about some great fun memories. :)
i'm slowly absorbing LA still and definitely enjoying all the things i've missed. closeness with good old friends who know me so well, without a second thought, they just always know. the comfort of feeling a great amount of history with the person sitting next to me. making peace with the flaws of LA. learning new develpments of the city, i.e. crazy amount of lofts being built, cars, places to eat, etc. and picking up your phone to know at least 5 of your closest friends are at your fingertips. coincidentally, the sun finally came out today :).
xxx rania
Good reading...a nice way to ease meself into the week ahead! Jealous though...wish we could be there with you and makes me long for a bit of travel time - when the cheque comes in eh? ;)
ReplyDeletePS - I think someone's swapped you 'b' and 'd' keys...baniel? ;)