Weekend Recap!

MY CAMERA WAS DELIVERED ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON!

..and I spent all weekend playing with it. I have so much to learn. But, I'm so excited to get started.

Because really, doesn't brunch look better through a dslr? Doesn't it?

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Welcome to VENICE, CA

The Red Hot Chili Peppers were filming a music video on a rooftop near Muscle Beach!
It was pretty crazy.. and awesome.. amazing.

Pitfire Pizza.. for dessert

I love this place. We went there tonight just to get dessert... a warm chocolate cookie with soft serve icecream, chocolate syrup and nuts on top. Definitely worth sharing. Mmm.

Venice Beach | The Waterfront

I didn't get any pictures of Josh or John. How how how did this happen? We met up with some friends from OREGON this afternoon! They were down for a mini-California vacation and we all met up at The Waterfront in Venice. It's a German biergarten right in the middle of all of the crazy. It was a beautiful day. The pretzels there?..are amazing. And my friends made me laugh :)

I did get sunburned. But that is my own fault. And I don't know what that face means.

Kelsey & Alex :)

the Promenade

I love the Promenade. We spend a lot of weekend afternoons walking around, sipping coffee and eating pastries or pretzels, ducking in and out of the bookstore, grabbing lunch at chipotle and scouring the sale racks at H&M.. We realized the last time we went that we're beginning to recognize most of the street performers. Our favorite little girl Sammie Jay (see us dancing to her HERE and HERE) wasn't there this week but she'll always be at the top of our list.

More recently we stumbled across this darling girl, Chelsea Williams. And she's amazing. The songs on her myspace don't seem to be very updated.. in fact, none of the songs I linked you to do her justice, unfortunately. but, every time we see her (or the two times we have) we stop and listen to her set.

I guess you'll have to come hear her for yourself!

Our Friend's Wedding

Sunday night, we went to a wedding reception in Long Beach.. and we had a great time! A lot of people from the wcs community were there, and there was a dance floor, need I say more? The food was delicious, and we couldn't stop eating the desserts.. mmm it was all so good!

A Wedding Dance from Jennifer on Vimeo: The son of the groom performing for us!

Supper, Soccer & Sushi

Well, my first legitimate game? Do my brother's games count? When he was 5? I didn't think so..

Real Madrid played against USA last Saturday night, and my cousins amazingly had two extra tickets and invited us to join them. We had SO MUCH FUN. They stayed in this chic hotel.. I should have taken more pictures, really. We met them there and then went to find an early dinner.. and ended up at Joan's.

After dinner, we meandered a bit around town, hit up the Rack, and then had a bit of time to kill before heading to the stadium.

And then we hit traffic.

And we worried our pretty little heads. And we made some tricky traffic maneuvers. And we found an AMAZING PARKING SPOT on the street, avoided paying for parking, and made it to our seats before the game began.

It was a good game.. 5 goals scored between the two teams. Madrid won :) and the boy was very pleased. I was possibly more entertained by a very drunk man about 30 or so rows below us who found it necessary to sing the hokey pokey at the top of his lungs during the last 30 minutes of the game. But, regardless, I'm happy to report that we all had a really good time..

But the night didn't end there. Afterwards? They took us to get sushi. And not just any sushi. Pretty much the most amazing sushi I've ever had. The kind of sushi that melts in your mouth while exploding with unique flavor combinations at the same time. Ridiculous sushi. I don't know if I'm ever going to be satisfied with any other sushi, kind of sushi.

Mmmm I'm reliving the experience right now.

THANK YOU to my cousins.. without you, this night would not have been possible. We love you and we loved sharing the entire night with you.