LalaLand with the Baby Adults

A quick trip to LA with my "baby adults" :)

A Beautiful oak tree framing our path on a little walk after dinner

more wildflowers

but before we got THE BEST red tacos in Sylmar, we spent the day at The Getty.

Here they are on the tram...one supporting the photo, one not hahaha

There was a cool fashion photography exhibit aptly titled:

Wonderful Things

lunch on the green and who knew the Getty Cafe

would carry $3 pb&j sandwiches!

I felt lucky to be just with these 2:)

They have a special bond.

They just understand one another!

The gardens were in full bloom :)

Turns out this was the one sunny day we got!

And of course, it's not an official museum visit if we are not twinning with art:)

The next day I dropped them off for a not so bright but early for a day at Universal!

The Weasley's? Are they twins?

I love them.

They rode Jurassic 5 times!

While the kids spent the day at Universal...I had a great time with Marcie and Marty doing Hollywood things!

Here we are holding an Emmy at Paramount Studios...the tour guide was like, this picture is so dumb it's good:)

These 2 are the best to spend time with.

I sized up these costumes...Hollywood is really small!

We kept saying...Mom would love this!

This may look like just a green but this is where the scene of the secret trampoline episode of Community was shot!

So LA....curious why so many people are scientologists?

We boarded a questionable Hollywood tour.

I can't tell you how bad it was...you just had to be there. From getting windblown, to seeing one of Rihanna's homes, then driving next to a brick wall in an alley and being told that Jimmy Kimmel's show is behind said brick wall....all done in a monotone dead panned voice.

"This is Michael Jackson's last home before he died. He died there."

But we laughed and laughed and made a life memory we will never forget:)

I did take one picture of Whitney Houston's first home.

It was charming.

The next day we hung out in Burbank with a stop at Donut Hut:)

Vintage shopped at Playclothes on Magnolia

You could find everything there!

We thought Audrey might like to prom dress shop here next year!

I miss seeing Jacarandas:)

There were smears of it on streets from cars running over the petals and tracking them.

Plant shop down the road but not pictured was the most perfect Halloween shop open year round! I bought some adorable figurines and a fish skeleton :0

I only documented this stop on the way home:)

Pismo and cinnamon rolls for the win!

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