A Southern California Style Thanksgiving

After a harsh NYC November, we headed for the sunny shores of California to give thanks with Laurie's in-laws. So we packed our bags, took the shuttle to JFK and headed for the west coast. We got in late Wed night and headed to the non stop party city known as Santa Clarita, the new place we call 'home' when when visiting SoCal. Although I was born and raised in T-town (thousand oaks for y'all that don't know), my parents now live in the SCV. Sorry we didn't take pics of our thanksving dinner, but it was good. Good to see the family, good to eat the food, and just relax. But everyone knows what thanksgiving's all about. I just want to say it was a good time. Well, Thanksgiving came and went, the next day, Laurie went with Trica to a jean sample sale at 5AM! Black Friday. Well, Patrick and I woke up around noon, picked Laurie up around 2 at Justin and Tricia's place, and headed around LA. One recomendation when reading this blog, it's best read with music, this blog's theme song: how to save a life by the Fray which served as the weekend's theme song. And one last thing, I'd like to introudce to you a new feature to the blog, which I call the "bleature", in this, I reveal top secret stuff, stuff that you might not have known about me.
This week's bleature: my best friend.

Patrick took us around LA showing us the sights, we drove around the south bay, and stopped at this picturesque spot overlooking Manhattan Beach, Hermosa and Redondo. Although hazy, it's still a great site. After hanging out on the coast, we headed inland to 'The Groove", a Disneyland type of shopping area where we experienced a southern californian snow storm. It snowed that night. Those white dots on our clothes and what you see throughout the picture is snow. We got snow in LA before we got it in NYC. LA is always full of surpirses. Oh yea, and that other lovely couple in the picture is my folks. They kindly hosted our weekend and took us all around.

After going around LA all day, what else is there to do but hang out on the famed 'sunset strip' at the Standard, where the likes of Nick Lachey, Paris Hilton and Dennis Rodman are seen to have a drink or two. Ok, well, we didn't make it to Sunset, but we did make it to the next best spot - Margaritas in Santa Clarita where instead of hanging with Hollywood, Laurie Pat and I met up with old west coast buddies (and new to the blog!!!!) Jay and Erica. We cheerzed to good times, good memories, and many more good times ahead. We were in for a long night of...

Drinking...

Dancing... (Get a room Jay and Erica you salsa dancing ringers!)

and macking! Who is Erica's boyfriend anyway?

After a long day of touring LA and celebrating with friends, we headed to the happiest place on earth...

Here's Laurie and I in front of the magic kingdom (how do you make this pic straight?)


Patrick, Tricia, Justin (welcome to the blog newcomers!),
Laurie and myself going down splash mountain - look out!

And that's the weekend folks. Here's me and my best friend, Kobe. Why is it that a dog is man's best friend? I don't know why, but he's a good friend. Happy Thanksgiving folks. We hope everyone had a good time like we did.