Visitors

We just had a great couple of days acting like 'tourists' showing some of our friends around.

Stacey & Sarah Wampler (some of our friends from Tucson) and Sarah's little sister Tina came and spent 2 1/2 days with us and we showed them 'the town' -- or what little bit of it is still pleasant this time of year (it's been REALLY cold around here lately!!).

On Monday we went down to the Santa Monica Pier and Third Street Promenade. It turned out to be a gorgeous, warm day and we wandered all over and enjoyed watching some of the crazy street performers that were out.

From there we headed to Hollywood to try our luck in the 'Wicked Lottery'. This is the opportunity to win $25 front row seats to that day's Wicked performance. Everyone I've told about it has actually won seats, but we'd never gone to try for ourselves. When we got there at 5:30 to get in line we were definitely shocked by the amount of people that were there.. and, sure enough, there were WAY too many and our chances were next to nothing -- and we didn't get in. So.. we headed over to Universal City Walk and wandered around for a while checking out the crazy stores and nightlife.

Yesterday we headed down to the Getty Center where we enjoyed the view and the gorgeous gardens. We then headed back to Hollywood to see if we'd be any luckier the 2nd night.. We drove over on Mulholland Drive, which was beautiful -- big houses and great vistas -- but then we hit traffic and didn't make it in time. We didn't feel too badly though because when we drove by the Wicked Theater there were more people there than there were on Monday night!!!

So.. instead.. we headed over to Hollywood Blvd and Highland and wandered over to Grauman's Chinese Theater and put our foot/hands in all the prints to see how we measured up to the rich and famous (by the way.. just as a comment.. some of those actresses feet are TINY!!!)

We had a ton of fun hanging out with them and hope that they can come and hang out with us again!