Los Angeles

I am going to be having this baby boy in just a few weeks and I know Mike and I will have even less "us" time when that happens. So we planned a little 'babymoon' to Los Angeles for the day. We left super early in the morning, like 4am and got back around 1am but it was a great day! We planned it all out and amazingly everything went according to our plans and we got great California weather too! The only downside was the horrible traffic which we somewhat expected but its always frustrating when it takes 40 minutes to go 4 or 5 miles.

Our first stop was the USC campus. The campus has lots of museums on it. We went to the Natural History Museum because it was the first Tuesday of every month so it was free and we went to the California Science Center. The Natural History Museum was really nice but the Science Center was a bit of a disappointment so I'm glad it was free.

These purple trees were everywhere! I think they are really pretty!

We loved the Natural History Museum though! We love animals and history and we really love dinosaurs and they had a great dinosaur exhibit. Seeing all the dinosaurs made me think of Daniel but I was also kind of glad he wasn't there because he would've wanted to touch everything and the museum was crowded because it was free. The nice part of going to a museum on a free day was that we didn't feel like we had to stop and see everything or spend a certain amount of time to get our moneys worth so we just saw what we wanted and spent as much time as we wanted to be able to enjoy it.

The museum also had a T-Rex family. So we got to see a baby t-rex which I'd never seen before.

We also saw some big stuffed animals of course and I didn't feel like we needed pictures but Mike wanted one with the honey badger.

After the science museum we drove down to Hollywood Blvd. We had planned to walk the streets and find some stars on the walk of fame and visit the Chinese and Dolby Theaters before lunch.We had some interesting experiences walking around Hollywood. First of all, I never want to walk around here at night. Also, you can't use a bathroom in any of the stores or restaurants unless you are a customer, at least at the shops further from the theaters that aren't as nice. Now I am 35 weeks pregnant and sometimes I just have to go so thankfully Mike went in and explained that his pregnant wife needed the restroom and a lady in a pizza shop was kind enough to give me the key :) (Mike had to wait until later..sorry only perks for pregnant ladies). Also, apparently Mike and I look like we are from France. A couple asked us to take a picture of them and asked us if we were visiting from France???? I'm not sure if this is a compliment or why but it was funny. When we told them we were from Vegas they got excited because they thought we had lots of money so we could take a bus tour...um no. We did a lot of walking though so we got to see lots of stars.

The Chinese Theater was fun to see too. Last time we were here they were doing construction so this time we could actually see everything.

This is as close as we got to the Hollywood Sign

Then we went out for lunch at the California Pizza Kitchen. It was pretty good! It was also really nice to sit and take a break from all the walking we'd been doing.