We drove up to the house where Grant's friend Nathan is staying while in Seminary. The house was really cute and we fell in love with Pasadena. When we got to the house we were exhausted, but managed to stay up for a good while catching up with Nathan and his brother who was in town visiting as well. We met Nathan's roommates Brady and Chris (who owns the house). It was a good time.
Grant and I woke up fairly early on Monday, excited to check out LA. All over LA were these beautiful blooming trees with purple flowers. It was really really pretty to see them everywhere.
First on our agenda was finding the Father of the Bride house, which happened to be located just 5 miles from Chris' house! We found it easily. I was so excited. I wanted to jump out and give the house a big hug! 
We took several photos and then went to our next stop: the Walsh house from 90210. This house was just about 5 miles away as well. It looked familiar despite the fresh coat of white paint on the exterior. 
On the way back to downtown Pasadena we found the Rose Bowl!
Brady gave us some great recommendations for lunch and we headed to Aux Delices for lunch in downtown Pasadena. It was a cute French sandwich shop in downtown Pasadena. We were able to shop in downtown Pasadena after lunch. I found some really cute stores and bought some shoes and jewelry. After lunch we headed to Beverly Hills.
We were driving down to Beverly Hills with the goal of stopping by Kitson to buy my sister Tess some goodies for watching Penelope during our trip.
We drove up and down Sunset Boulevard and over to Kitson. I got Tess a Kitson t-shirt and beach bag. We saw some cool restaurants and beautiful homes in Beverly Hills. We parked and walked around a bit and then had dinner at Il Sole on Sunset.That night we spent some time with Nathan, David, Chris and Brady.
On Tuesday I had to go and get some drug tests done for my new job...it was not a fun experience. The first Quest center I went to would only do one test and didn't give any advice on where I should go for the other test...so I called Quest and got an address for the other center location to finish my testing. It took me a while to navigate through Pasadena to find the other center. I parked and walked into a waiting room filled with people. In all it took about 2 hours to get both tests done and get back to Chris' house. Not the highlight of the vacation!!
When I got back we had lunch and then went to Griffith Observatory. It was up in the hills with an amazing view of downtown LA, Hollywood and the surrounding hillside including the "Hollywood" sign. It was really amazing and beautiful. We spent some time there had a bit to eat and then Nate took us on a driving tour of his new city. We drove around Beverly Hills and Mulholland Drive. It was nice to have a driver who knew his way around the city!!
That night was our last night in LA. We had dinner with Nate and David at a great little Thai place and spent the night watching a movie and getting our things together for the next leg of our trip.
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