Trip-logue...Los Angeles

[phyncke]

I have been meaning to do a post about last weekend's trip to Los Angeles. I went from last Friday to Sunday to visit my brother and his wife and I got to see aglarien1! It was a total blast and whirwind theatre happening. I saw lots of shows there. Lots - like 4 shows in 24 hours. That is an all time record for me. We had a great time and I feel all cultured up. It was great.

I got in on Friday night and my SIL and I went right from the airport to In and Out Burgers - kind of a family tradition. We like the burgers there and we got milkshakes too. Delish. We just hung out that night and watched some TV about tiny houses. That was pretty cool.

Saturday - my SIL and I went out and got manicures and pedicures after having a nice brunch at Pann's in LA. It was nice and relaxing and I pretty much took a nap in the pedicure chair. Total fun. I got a French gel manicure and got purple on my toes. Then we met up with my brother and the theatre extravaganza began.

We saw the following shows - at the Fringe - in this order.

The Toxic Avenger Musical
Uterine Affairs or Inconceivable Conception
Amy Snowden - Casting Confessions from La to LA

all were humorous and really good. It was a very good line up. In between the first and second one we had a break and went to a really good mexican restaurant. We got done at about 12:30 am and then went right to bed. All those shows are a little exhausting.

I saw aglarien1 for breakfast on Sunday and we went to our favorite place, Dinah's, in Los Angeles. They serve a great breakfast and we had a great time talking and laughing and eating really good food. It was great to see her and the time flew by too fast, of course.

Then we had our last show which was the opera. It was a multi-media thing called The News - JacobTV. They had a large screen with snippets of media and news reports playing interspersed with operatic commentary. It was really cool and really interesting. Kind of a commentary on the media and how ridiculous it all is. That was at the Long Beach Opera.

So that was my whirlwind cultural weekend. Really good time! Tada!


by laurahonest on livejournal.com

Comments

[chaotic-binky.livejournal.com]

I bet you are all 'showed out' now lol

*Hugs*

[jaiden-s.livejournal.com]

Fun! Is Dinah's the place the three of us ate when I was there? Yum.

I have never had an In and out, but I want to.

ETA: Twitter keeps wanting me to follow your brother. :/ Not sure why but...LOL

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

I think we ate there. The breakfast place. Still good - loads of butter.
In and Out is good. Fattening and good. They have good milkshakes.

It is probably some algorithm that they do. Happy 4th of July!

[aglarien1.livejournal.com]

No we ate at the Katella Deli in Los Alamitos. Dinah's is a very old-time coffee shop/diner kind of place, very famous for their fried chicken.

[talullahred.livejournal.com]

That's awesome! I was reading your post and smiling, from so much fun it sounds like you had.

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

It was a lot of fun. :) Hope you are doing well! :)

[talullahred.livejournal.com]

I am doing well, thanks - enough at least, lol.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

That sounds like such a great weekend. I would love to see the opera, it sounds fascinating and very different.

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

The opera was very different and really interesting. It is time we looked at the news media complex and analyzed that.

[perkyandproud.livejournal.com]

Wow, that totally sounds like an amazing and fun weekend! :)