A Much Needed Vacation!

Jason and I decided that we would go to LA for our summer vacation. We had thought about taking Andrew, but we decided that it would just be easier not to. We left on Monday morning and got to LA Monday afternoon and after having a minor spat with the rental car people arrived at The Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica- just 2 blocks from my sisters apartment. It was an awesome hotel. We really enjoyed staying there. Our first night there we went to the Third Street Prominade with Emily and her rooommate Jennifer. We ate at Cabo Cantina where Emily works (she actually works at the one in Venice Beach, but the food was the same). After dinner we went and saw The Hangover. It was a really funny movie- a little graphic for my taste, but I got several good laughs out of it. By the way, this was the first movie I've seen in a theatre since before Andrew was born. The last movie I saw was The Breakup or You, Me, and Dupree.
The next day Jason and I decided to go to Burbank and take the Warner Brothers Studios Tour. I wanted to go to Universal, but they don't let pregnant women ride anything so I would be totally bored! The Warner Brothers Studios Tour was AWESOME. I'm not kidding, we learned so much about the production of television shows and movies. We saw the whole 10,000 + acre lot and there were so many familiar things on the lot that have been used in many different movies and TV shows. It was awesome. I took a ton of pictures and could go into great detail about TV and movie production, but I don't have enough time! We went to lunch at Bob's Big Boy home of the double decker hamburger. Jason and I have seen this place on the travel channel a few times and thought it looked good. The food was good, but the service was not. We had dinner at Ocean Avenue Seafood overlooking the ocean. I had the best halibut I've ever tasted. It was the freshest seafood we've had since Hawaii. Jason had a lobster and he said it was excellent.
On Wednesday we went with Emily and ate at Paradise Cove on the beach in Malibu. I had the best jumbo shrimp ever! You sit outside in the sand, it's really fun! We went to Beverly Hills and walked around the shops. Then, we went to Hermosa Beach to visit our friends Collin and Bekah that moved out there. It was great to see them. Collin grilled steaks and we had a wonderful dinner and enjoyed sitting on their patio and looking at the ocean. They have a really neat house in walking distance to the beach- how fun!
We headed home Thursday after eating lunch at Patrick's in Santa Monica with Emily and two of her friends that came for a visit. Our flight got delayed at LAX (shocking!) causing us to miss our flight to Little Rock from Dallas. Thankfully the airline ended up putting us up for the night at the DFW Ramada so Jason spent our 4 year anniversery eating Domino's pizza at midnight in a very questionable hotel room and getting up at 4:30 am to catch our flight back home!
Here are some pictures from our trip.

Jason and I at Central Perk on the actual set that was used on the final episode.
Warner Bros Studios

Bob's Big Boy

Us on the Santa Monica Pier

Emily and I at Paradise Cove