Crawfish are the best!!

Well we got up early on Saturday morning to head to Baton Rouge for my best friend's first wedding shower! It was a crawfish boil honey do shower and we had a blast!!!! We got to hang out with friends who I have not seen in quite awhile. I can't wait to hang out with them again at the engagement party in 4 weeks.

Here is a picture of Wes and I at the shower.....


The bride and groom to be....

Some of the girls, who I had a great time with......

After the shower, we went out in Baton Rouge to Uncle Earl's. It was fun, but got way too crowded. Wes and I walked next door for a minute to visit an old friend at Happy Note.

On Sunday, we stopped in Lake Charles and had lunch with my family for my grandfather's birthday. He lives in Lake Charles so we ate at Pat's of Henderson and went back to his house for cake.

I am not ready for the work week and already looking forward to a weekend of staying in Houston and relaxing!

Baby Veron

So, I will now have a baby to blog about.....due in November.....baby Veron.....nope, not mine. My brother and his girlfriend will be having a baby, due November 5. We have known for awhile, but due to shock/emotions, everything else, I have not written about it.

Now that my family is over the initial shock and all that goes along with it, I know we will love this baby and I cannot wait to buy things for it! I can't wait to find out if it is a boy or a girl!

Here are some old pictures of the expecting couple....

Adios

Well I am sitting in the LAX airport right now and will be for the next hour and a half. Hopefully, our flight will not be delayed.

We had a great day at Disney Land yesterday. We got there at 9 when the park opened and left around 7. Our favorite rides were Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, and Thunder Railroad. The park was pretty crowded for their "off season". The only ride we had a long wait for was Splash Mountain though.




We tried to get our plane ticket moved back to tomorrow, but it would be way expensive. So here we are, on our way home. We will arrive in New Orleans around 5.

We have had a blast and this is our absolute favorite city ever visited!! We can't wait to come back!!

Beaches

Just wanted to post a few pics of us at the beaches.....


Paradise Cove in Malibu

Paradise Cove in Malibu- the sun was going down

Venice Beach

Universal Studios

We got to Universal Studios this morning around 10, when it opened. We had a lot of fun. We rode some rides and took a tour of movie sets. We got to see the Desperate Housewives set and they were filming as we were passing by the set. It was very neat to see how the movies are made. It makes you realize how fake they are. The film in tiny houses, but thanks to computers can make them look huge.



We had dinner plans at Koi, but canceled them to go to some beaches. We went to Venice Beach, Santa Monica beach/pier, and Malibu beach. We ate dinner in Malibu at Paradise Cove, where my all time favorite movie, Gidget, was filmed.

We are headed to Disney Land tomorrow!! There is so much to do here! I love this town and could stay for another week!

90210

Today was a very busy day, but incredibly awesome! We started off with a 2 hour tour that consisted of Hollywood Blvd, Sunset Blvd, Rodeo Drive, and movie star homes. We saw lots and lots of star's homes such as Tom Cruise, Jay Leno, Courtney Cox, Will Smith, David Beckham, Barbara Streisand, Elvis Presley's old home, Simon from American Idol, Dr. Phil, and lots more!!
We also drove by the house where they film the Hills and Lauren's car was parked on the street!
Hill's house below............. located on Orange Street or something like that...Orange something...


We then headed to have lunch at the Ivy, where we were sitting three tables down from Chris Rock. It was delicious! After lunch, we did some shopping on Robertson Blvd. The only store we bought anything from was Kitson. After Robertson Blvd, we headed to Rodeo Drive. We walked into all the big names stores. Thought briefly about buying a purse from Louis Vuitton, but didn't. Michal will most likely try to talk me into it the rest of the trip. We tried to go to Sprinkles to have a cupcake, but there was a line of about 50 people out the door. We will try that again tomorrow.

We then headed to Santa Monica to go to Third Street Promenade, which was incredible! We walked up and down the street, bought some things and then had dinner at Yankee Doodles. We sat outside so we got to people/star watch while we ate!



Hills house....

Waiting on transportation

We made it to Los Angeles!!! We arrived in New Orleans around midnight Friday night, went to bed close to 2 and then had to get up at 5 to catch our flight! Needless to say, I am exhausted!!

We arrived in LA around 9:15. It is two hours ahead of Texas. We had reserved a shuttle; however, we forgot to print out the passes. So the guy told us that when the shuttle guy got here, we could see if he would let us on, but he couldnt make any promises. So we waited and waited and got tired of waiting so we went to try to get a cab. We waited and waited, realized we were standing in the wrong spot, went to the right spot, waited and waited, finally got a cab and headed to the hotel!

We got to check in at 10:30, which was nice. We unpacked a little bit and tried to head to Santa Monica. We planned on taking the bus/metro, whatever was available. We waited and waited and waited for the bus. Finally, we called 5 different rental car places and found one that was open on a Saturday. We then called a cab company and waited and waited for the cab. We made it to the rental place and we have had a blast since then!!! No more waiting on public transportation!!

We headed to the Farmer's Market and the Grove, which we loved!!! We ate lunch at Marmalade Cafe at the Farmer's Market and then headed to do some shopping. We spent a couple hours over there and then got in our fabulous rental car and drove around LA. Here are a few pictures from our adventures....

Shops at the Grove......huge American Girl place to the left and huge Banana Republic on the right.
In the middle of the Grove.....

Eating at Marmalade Cafe.....

For dinner, we ate at Dolce, which was really good. It had awesome decor. The bar was constantly on fire. After getting four hours of sleep last night, probably less, we were too tired to do anything after dinner. Speaking of, I am heading to bed!!