’12 May

May 1

Home from a fanTASTic month in the land of aloha.

If you’re of a mind to catch up here’s: magnificent Kauai at The House, with a break for some Maui WOWie and a weekend with the fam in Honolulu.

May 22

Lilly told me a long enthusiastic story about how she had stomped on a bug (stomp) and the bug was red (stomp) and she stomped on it two times (stomp stomp). I had to ask her to tell the story again so I could get this shot, not too shaky I hope from all my laughing.

May 21

A nice tryptic day:

First a trip to the California State Administration Building downtown for some paperwork.

Second, lunch and a great visit with Burt, Charlene, John, and Bradley in Simi Valley.

Third, a Monday Nighter Double Birthday Extravaganza for Maxine and Marsha, and then Dancing with the STARS.

May 20 National Mother-of-the-Bride Day!

In honor of National Mother-of-the-Bride Day my sisters took me to the Korean Spa where we luxuriated in hot water from a great number of delivery systems, and enjoyed a fantastic scrub and a massage.

AHHH. And then we had some nice soup for dinner. .a near perfect day, the only thing needed to make it absolutely perfect would be the Bride, but she was a couple of thousand miles away.

May 18

I moved some furniture around so I could put this handsome bunch of stalk from the flower market, from Susie, from yesterday, here by the window. They look so lovely and smell so spicy sweet.

My dinos at the Promenade, Spring! and the boys and girls want to play.

May 17

I had So Much Fun today and Susie treated all day long! Thank you Susie for a perfect Medicare Year Birthday Fete.

We got going crazy early to check out the flower markets downtown where you find huge warehouses packed with blooms of every description.

And on the street, El Big Happy. Gotta love a place called El Big Happy.

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From the flower markets we walked to the hip and trendy The Standard Hotel for breakfast. This is their crazy cool dining room…

…and this is their crazy cool restroom, ladies to the right, gentlemen to the left.

Don’t miss the punchline of this photo. You’ll know it when you see it.

Then we walked to the Central Library and saw a most entertaining display of old maps of LA…

…followed by a stop-off at the Japanese American Museum so Susie could see the origami exhibit, and then we had a late afternoon tea at their Tea Room, Chado, which we totally enjoyed.

Wow, so much fun!

May 16

Dinner with the boys, always a pleasure!

May 15

The story of our walk: Lilly and the sunflower forest.

I asked Lilly if she wanted to get a book for us to read and she went directly to the floor of her closet and retrieved the vegan cupcake cookbook she had stashed there and wanted me to read her this recipe. Really.

So I asked her if she would like it if we made those cupcakes. Whooo, NOW, she would like it if we made those cupcakes NOW.

On a side note, I didn’t have my little flash and used the built-in instead this picture being a nice reminder of how much better the other one is with the nasty shadows.

We waited for Rome to get home and she helped us. YUM!

(Jen)

May 13

Some Mother’s Day FUN at the Japanese Garden/Sewage Reclamation Plant in Balboa Park.

Angela, her mom Liz, and the grandgirls Rome and Lilly…

…awww, with Darryl.

Liz and Gary, happy today!

(Liz took the picture of G&L)

The garden here is a great field trip – you are strolling, enjoying, admiring, and then you think, hmmm, I wonder, what’s that smell? So you can easily walk just over the bridge to be amazed at the ‘reclamation’ facility which generates all this water and more.

Lona and Hartley and their friends came too. YAY!

Too bad Windy didn’t make it because then we three sisters could have done picture-picture in a silly pose, making a spectacle of ourselves in public in honor of our mother. It’s only fun when we’re all together.

May 12

Beach volleyball is so hard.