A Weekend Visitor.

At the beginning of December I had a visitor from Bremerton! My friend, K, who has been in a few plays with me, which is how some of you might recognize her.

She flew in super early and was an amazing sport, because I ended up dragging her to a Baby Shower. She, being incredibly creative, decorated one of the cutest onesies for the new Momma.

After Tim had woken up (he was still on graveyard), we went to the San Diego Zoo. The panda exhibit was practically empty and so we got some one-on-one time with this panda. He was definitely showing off for us! 

The next day, K and I went up to LegoLand. She is a HUGE Lego fan, so while I took a few pictures, I'm pretty sure she left with a picture of every single thing.

Tim took Tuesday off work and the three of us drove to Hollywood! The real reason for K's trip was to see a live taping of The Big Bang Theory.  I had managed to procure tickets to the taping on Tim's birthday (which is a long story that involves me having a nervous breakdown at the business center in Disneyland Hotel). We left our place around noon and Tim slept in the back seat while I drove to LA. We got there a little early, so K and I left Tim in the car (in the parking garage) while I took K to see The Hollywood Walk of Fame and Dolby Theater. We got to the Warner Brothers Studio in time to eat a quick dinner and check-in for the taping. The audience wranglers did a great job of getting everyone into the studio quickly, where we waited about an hour before they showed us an unaired episode of the show before our show taping. The taping itself lasted about 3 hours, but it went by very quickly. Our episode, The Egg Salad Equivalency, aired on January 3rd. No cameras or cell phones were allowed in the studio, so that's why I don't have any photographs. Although, we did have a quick exchange with Regina King as we were walking to our car!

Wednesday was K's last day with us, but she wasn't leaving until later that evening, so we decided to check out Point Loma. My friend C also came with us! The day started a bit overcast, so the view wasn't great, but we did have a fun time going down to the tide pools.

 K is a picky eater, but loves bacon, so C recommended a place called "Slater's 50/50." The 50/50 stands for 50% ground beef and 50% bacon, which is how they make their hamburger patties. Tim and C also got maple-bacon milkshakes for lunch. It was quite an experience, but pretty tasty and K loved it. :-)

(There were chucks of bacon throughout the milkshake.)

K and I ended the day with a drive down to the Mexico-US border and along the Silver Strand. We stopped at The Hotel Del Coronado to look around and go to the beach. It just so happened that while we were in the lobby of the Hotel Del, K noticed a stream of water coming from the ceiling. We let the concierge know and he kind of looked at me like "um, what are you talking about?" until he actually looked and then people started running around trying to keep the woodwork dry and capturing the water. Basically, K and I saved the Hotel Del. 

It's hard to see in the picture, but they had a staff member standing under the stream with garbage cans. '

It was a whirlwind couple of days, but we all had so much fun!