LA Trip

Our new LA names: NiSaFlo, PeMaFlo, VaRoFlo

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We just got back from LA. It was a pretty crazy whirlwind trip. Being that were were scoping the area out for possible location move, it was a little more stressful that I thought it would be. I kept trying to picture us in the different places...and had trouble in some areas but we quickly found some other areas that were pretty great. There are so many options of places to live...which will keep us busy in the coming months when trying to narrow down areas to live in.

Like this great little park, Coldwater Canyon Park snuggled in Beverly Hills...

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This was our first vacation...not to Miami...which meant that we had to travel with 100 extra baby items: car seat, stroller, diapers, baby food, formula, water, play-pen, baby bjourn, wipes, clothes, sweaters, toys--most of which we never have to take with us when traveling to visit family in Miami...cause it's all there already!

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Nico did GREAT! He slept through the night...EVERY NIGHT! The first day he got up really early, 4am(6 am Austin time) but he quickly adjusted. Yesterday morning he slept until 8 or 8:15am (10am Austin time). He made Peter and I stay on schedule though. He would quickly remind us when we had take TOO LONG at dinner, or had been DRIVING FOR MORE THAN THE ALLOTTED TIME!

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We ran all over! On Santa Monica between the beach and the Pacific Coast Hwy (1), in Runyon Canyon Park (Hollywood hills),and in Santa Barbara, along the water. It was nice because on those early runs we managed to see the calmer, quieter sides of LA. We got a chance to ENJOY the cool weather, and the beautiful mountains, ocean, palm trees, and crisp ocean breeze. Once we move we'll have to test our fitness level improvement by running up Runyon Canyon periodically to see how far we get.

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From 1009 Los Angeles Trip Labor Day

From 1009 Los Angeles Trip Labor Day

We rented a double bike (Tandem) with a trailer attached to it. It was my first time getting on one of those...SO SCARY. Peter was making fun of me, saying that he loved me anyway even though my idea of adventure now was biking on one of those bikes...BUT IT WAS A SCARY ADVENTURE- TO BE WABBLING ALL OVER the place, having NO CONTROL, NO vision (I was in the back), and to catch glimpses from over Peter's shoulder or under his elbow of a BIGILLION crazies on the side walk jumping in and out of the way...some not even concerned that a very large moving object was coming straight at them or worse, that it was going toward their 3 year old child who just darted across the path for a ROCK or their shadow!
In the end, I did have fun, in a cold beach, california, adventurous kind-a way...lol.

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From 1009 Los Angeles Trip Labor Day

The weather- was the most shocking part of the trip once I got over the thousands of people that I SAW the first 10 minutes of being there. It was COLD...in the middle of the summer, ON THE BEACH! The ocean water was FREEZING!! It was Nice to not be sweating. It was especially great RUNNING WEATHER!!

We ate yummy food! PIZZA, LOBSTER, FISH, SHRIMP & CHIPS, CREPES...just to name a few.

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Places we visited and/or drove through:
Santa Monica- A lot of tourist
Beverly Hills- Expensive
Brentwood- Quiet, I like
Westwood- I like
Malibu- hahaha...right
Augora Hills- family style, affordable, far from the water
Westlake Village- family style affordable, far from the water
Thousand Oaks-family style affordable, far from the water
Oxnard- on the water, but didn't like the rest of the area
Ventura- can't remember
Santa Barbara- we won't be living that far north.

SPOTTING A MOVIE STAR. When we arrived in LA I told Peter that we would see someone famous. I kept my eyes peeled the whole time. The last day...hours before we were leaving, we saw Rawle D. Lewis, Junior from the movie "Cool Runnings" at lunch and Peter bet me $100 that it wasn't him....and so I asked him...and he said yes...and proceeded to taking pictures with him and NICO!!

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We had a great trip!!! There are a lot more pictures: