yay for LA- day 1

so i had an amazing time with my best friend and her husband. it was the perfect mix of work, fun, and chilax with the bestlers HP and Tys. here is a quick recap of what happened.

first stop on our tour of everything fun was the fashion district. we walked in and out of soooooooo many stores and saw some great and not so great things... all sorts of legitimate products- gotta love dolce and gabbana for $25- and i thought that was expensive. it was also great to see heather the business woman hard at work trying to get a direct source for a pink paisley fabric that is a big hit on knot heads. but it was a myriad of lil shops and stands, and people from all over. oddly- i felt at home.

i particularly loved shopping the $1 jewelry stores and i found myself some white bangles i had been wishing i had for a while! yesssss for cheap. yesssss for talking to my sisters while shopping to see if they wanted anything from my white-bin paradise.

next stop? Olvera Street. we split an order of taquitos and beans with cheese, oh so good. apparently this grub is world famous- and the line that wrapped around the corner at times proves it. they were certainly the best taquitos i've ever had. world famous in my book, or blog.

last stop before rushing home to make dinner and the olympics... the getty museum! i loooooooooooooved it. the best part- well of course it is free and that is good but it wasn't the best- there was a bernini exhibit. now when we first saw the posters i knew i had heard of that name- but it had been a while since i took any humanities classes. i felt like he was the sculptor that made me fall in love with baroque art and want to go to rome. if i recalled right he was known to be so talented that he could sculpt so thin that his leaves rustled in the wind. well- the memory served right. the exhibit was focused on his portraits and it was marvelous. he blew away his contemporaries with the ability to catch images in a time when images couldn't be captured, as our tour guide pointed out. our guide was a local artist that had a resume- let's just leave it at that. but he helped uncover the beauty of bernini's work. but equally impressive as the exhibit was the museum in and of itself. as i told my mom- i think this was one of the best museum experiences ever... and the bar is raised pretty high! but the getty has gardens that made me want to sit and bask forever- and we did pretty much that. about 4 hours at the museum and one 1-hour tour. me and hp were just warming up for those garden parties we will be hosting when we are old and gray!