return to ca part 2

our gorgeous birthday girl "pank me!!"
on friday afternoon, smac and i said goodbye to glendale (and the dave) and went to santa monica to hang out with sarah on her big 3-0 birthday day!! we got there late afternoon and decided to be girly and get pampered so we walked down to sarah's nail place on main street and all got manis and pedis. we then walked back and opened up a celebratory bottle of wine and got ready for a fun dinner out. because i am such a talented make up artist, i did sarah's eye make up and my own. please see pictures and let me know if i have a future in make up!! once we were ready, we drove to katsuya on san vicente in brentwood for some yummy cocktails and sushi. we sat at the sushi bar and enjoyed all kinds of delicious food! at one point, i got up to go to the bathroom and on my way back, this woman grabbed my arm and asked me if i was american... hunh?! to which i said yes, and she told me that the guy she was with and her thought i was beautiful. ummm, thanks?! i told the girls and we decided they were weird and possibly swingers! haha.

at katsuya... YUM!

after a lovely meal, we headed back to sarah's where we started to watch a movie but i fell asleep. whereupon i unknowingly drove smac crazy with my tossing/turning/finger cracking which i had no idea. i felt so bad in the morning when she told me!!

so on sat, while smac caught up on some much needed sleep, sarah and i went to spin. i hadn't been to spin in years and i really enjoyed that class!! so much so i am now addicted... but that's another story. after spin, we picked up bagels and headed back to relax for a bit. smac went to starbucks and graded some papers and then we all went in the early afternoon to find a hot new outfit for sarah and to all get our make up done by mac. i LOVE getting my make up done there... i always feel so pretty! sarah will most likely insert that i almost got run over by a bus here so i'll just tell everyone that we were crossing the street on the promenade when we ran in to kathryn johnson and the light changed. i didn't even realize i was still in the street... well apparently the stupid santa monica bus was barreling down the street and not willing to slow down for me! sarah was there and luckily pulled me out of the street just in time! thank you!

in any case, after getting our make up done and finding a fabulous top for sarah to wear, we went back to sarah's grabbed our stuff and headed over to the shangri-la hotel in santa monica where there was a room and where the par-tay would be held. liz, jess, and catherine had all checked in to the hotel so we went up to their room and opened a beverage! duh... it was then time to start getting ready for dinner and then i realized i forgot my stupid belt. grrrr... i needed the belt for the outfit! so smac was sweet enough to run back with me to sarah's to get it and luckily we made it back to the hotel in time to walk to dinner with the girls. to be honest, i don't remember where the heck we went to dinner, but it wasn't far from the hotel. we were joined at dinner by kathryn johnson, michelle cleveland and her hubby.









the scrippsies in front of the restaurant

dinner was tapas style, but kind of italian tapas. none of us were really sure how much to order, but we tried to figure it out and it turned out to be pretty good. after dinner, we headed back to the hotel and went to the pool/bar area where the party for everyone would be.

sarah and most of the other girls ran up to the room and i went with sarah and a couple others to the bar area where the hostess told me we had a table area... oh cool! i had no idea what the girls had planned... and then she told me she had to go check with her manager and i was all ok. so the manager comes over and says, who told you you have a table and who are you?! as soon as he said it he realized how rude it came out... and i told him look. we are here for sarah's party, i was told by that woman we apparently have a table, i didn't make the reservations, i'm just trying to get everything in order before she came down from her room. he was all oh. and then i said, how would you like to make it up to me and buy me a glass of wine. he said fine which was nice b/c apparently i picked a 20/glass of wine! holy expensiveness!! i think i just asked for a pinot noir. whatever... anyways, sarah and the other girls came down and eventually the rest of the others joined us for the festivities... her coworkers, tori and another girl were there, her asst lance and his buddy, chad and his gf and a friend of theirs.... tim, matt (the hubbies of liz and catherine)... ummm... can't really remember... please refer to pics!!

no idea what these shots were, but they were yucky!!


cheers!


oh no monkey face and silly face have made an appearance!! this one cracks me up!! love it...


wish this wasn't so blurry!


cheers! we love sarah!!


this silver ball got plucked out of the pool... management was not happy with us!!

in any case, the night ended up being really fun! the pool bar was not very crowded so i'm pretty sure the manager shouldn't have been such a jerk... the bartender, i remember as being fairly cute... at the end of the night smac and i went back to sarah's place and slept there. in the morning, we walked to get bagels and coffee and then the little more than a mile or so to the hotel to get her car from valet. it was then time to go to the burbank airport and head home.