...the rest of my days

My last week in California started out with a 4th of July weekend... Whitney and I headed for Long Beach. We went to the Aquarium of the Pacific, which turned out to be a really cool place to be on the holiday. They had a lovely barbecue on the front lawn full of all the usual holiday favorites. I touched all sorts of crazy sea creatures and saw all kinds of new things. When it became dark, we watched the fireworks off the Queen Mary in the harbor. Truly patriotic. It was a joyous time.

On our holiday off of work, we took a day easy and wandered around down town LA. We came upon this little treat, Olvera Street, an old Mexican market. We wandered around in the blazing heat and naturally, ate a churo.

We continued our travels to Angels Flight which is an old rail car system that pulleys two cars opposite each other up a hill. Pretty magical, especially after discovering that in 2001 there was a fatal crash and it just recently opened again.

On my last night, the girls and I went out to eat in true Hollywood fashion. Whitney discovered this little place called ketchup... hence the red lights. It was fancy! They had all sorts of ketchup... chocolate ketchup... mango ketchup... banana ketchup.... interesting, yet delicious. It was good to spend time with them before we all parted our California dreaming.

Nice look after a long day at work. Oh boy.