ca trip besides wedding, shower and interview!

so as i mentioned in my earlier post, i spent about 12 days in ca making the rounds and enjoying all sorts of festivities. i spent a couple of days in malibu with my aunt and uncle and also my little cousin caitlin who was on spring break. for some reason, i have no pictures from that portion of the trip... oh well... it was a lot of fun! and then i went to the wedding. and then i went to SM and stayed with catherine.

we had lots of fun doing all kinds of random things. each day we would pick up miss lucy and on this day, we also picked up her friend. then we went and got milk and cookies for a snack. they are so cute!

one day, we went to the photobooth! the three of us had so much fun making silly faces for the camera!

at night, we had big girl adventures as well. cath took me to a cooking demonstration where we ate (a lot) of very tasty food. and on one night we went to pinxtos for tapas and then pourtal for wine tasting. above is erin, me, and catherine prior to heading out to pinxtos where we met up with preston. dinner was yummmmmmmy!

me and erin after dinner.

so after the fun in SM, we headed to OC for roni's baby shower. after the shower and mexican feast, sarah mac and i headed for glendale. where i spent a couple nights with the dave, sarah and munchkin.

how cute is munchkin?! she likes to sit with sarah at the computer. and she loves to snuggle on the couch and watch tv. i can definitely say that munchkin has brought a new life to sarah and dave and is such a great addition to their family! although my time in glendale was short, we managed to hang out with dave's brother and his friend for lunch, do some shopping, get a massage, eat a dinner that dave cooked!, play with munchkin, and AND AND go to class with sarah. She was teaching a class on monday morning and i love going to her classes. she's such a great professor! after class, we scarfed a small bfast burrito as a snack and headed back to LA. sarah needed to be at UCLA that afternoon for some meetings and so on her way, she dropped me back at catherine's where i got to spend one last night before heading home.

on my last night in LA, we went out to sushi dinner with preston and erin in brentwood. it was delicious! but we decided we needed dessert. and since erin had just bought cookie dough, we thought let's stop by a store, get some butter, and then bake some cookies! at the store, catherine made a new friend...

and on the way back to e &p's apt, p & i made a new friend. this is apparently, the apt community cat that hangs out in the lobby. originally the cat was sitting with preston and i wanted a picture of that... then the cat jumped down and i grabbed it and thus this picture resulted.

while we waited for the cookies to bake, we enjoyed some wine and playing the game "would you rather". a lot of fun and laughs ensued and it was a lovely way to spend my last night in LA.