michelle emily: los angeles

As I said earlier, I was a sub-nanny in LA for my awesome friend Anna while she celebrated her birthday in Europe.

view from street, south side

if it was dark, you could see everything all lit up

different day, view from street, north side

The first week, I took a little trip to the Getty Museum in Malibu.

inside courtyard

If I had one color to describe this trip, it would be blue.

Then, a trip to Santa Clarita.

Then, a trip to San Luis Obispo, with the nanny family. The kids didn't have school on Monday and so their mom decided that she wanted to take a short trip up north to check our this little town. We stayed in this hotel called Madonna Inn. It is the love child of an architect who married an interior designer whose favorite color must have been pink. EVERYTHING was pink: the walls, the soap, the key cards, etc etc. And each room had a theme of some sort, like a safari room where everything was animal prints. We stayed in a Sir/Knight room.

So it has a feel of an olde English home.

We ate at the restaurant that night and it was a yummy steak house with an explosion of pink.

huge pink flowers and cupids

the kids goofin in the huge pink cushioned chairs

surrounded by pink pink pink

The next day, we swam in the pool and then explored SLO. It's a cute little college town that also caters to the tourism. It has a gum wall alleyway like the one in Seattle.

me and the kids

It was a cute town and it made me miss my undergrad days.

Anna came home Tuesday night and we played when we didn't have the kids.

Wednesday, we went to Century Mall on Santa Monica to see "10 Years" and then talked about what it would be like at our 10 year high school reunion over Pinkberry.

Here's what we were trying to figure out:

1. Who would be the one who was popular/a party-er in high school, but then went on to be a nobody?

2. Who would marry their high school sweetheart?

3. If you had the chance to "hook-up" with any guy from high school, who would you pick at the ten year reunion?

4. Who was the "one that got away," or the friend from high school you'd like to connect with?

Anna and I graduated from the same high school and same graduating class, so it was fun trying to remember the people we went to high school with and stories from those days. I can't believe our reunion will only be in 5.5 years.

Thursday was the dad's birthday, so I made a cake and Anna made dinner.

that kid just cracks me up.

Thursday night, Anna and I people-watched on 3rd Street Promenade and then saw "Premium Rush" (we like to watch movies...). And then I wanted to pick up and move to New York.

Friday, we hit up the beach (which, if you couldn't tell, was a 5 second drive away from their house). The water was awesome, even though I was afraid of getting eaten by a shark and we enjoyed ourselves even though Anna was afraid of all of the pigeons.