Tarzana Time

Well we've been in California for about 5 days now and my family flew home this morning. We've had a really great time and it was very sad to say goodbye. Zach and I dropped them off at LAX and it may be for the better that about 3,400 cops (give or take a few) were there rushing people along because it wasn't fun. While they were here we went and did some touristy things but also spent a lot of time in the backyard (and eating).

One of the days we went to Paradise Cove in Malibu. Through some weird family relationship that I wont bother explaining we had access to this huge estate right on the cliffs so we walked down to the beach from there. Instead of staying on the private beach part we walked down to the public beach because it was supposed to be more calm and Connor wanted to go out in the water. It was like 60 degrees at the beach that day so the rest of us weren't going in the water, but the walk was nice anyways. There were some incredibly huge estates right on the beach - most of which were gorgeous and you couldn't imagine ever being able to live in them, but others were very run down and obviously just sitting there empty. What a waste of $30 million. By the time we got down to the beach we saw how packed it was and all of the Adirondack chairs they have out for people (probably about 100) were all taken already. We only stayed there for a little while because of the crowd and low temperatures, but I was still able to fall asleep. ;)

Yesterday we went to Chinatown and had dim sum for breakfast. It was incredible and we are officially a dim sum obsessed family. We walked around afterward, as always, and got some fun stuff. I love some of the shops there, especially a place that is just a market for kitchen type stuff. I told my parents that now they know where everyone will be getting their Christmas presents from.

We've seen a few places but Kyle doesn't get here until Saturday so we're taking our time. We are meeting a potential room mate on Tuesday so we will hopefully do a three bedroom place to keep costs down. The real thing now is finding a place that will accept our pitbull (or mixed breed dog as I'm telling them) and deciding whether we prefer an apartment or a house. The house will potentially have more space and a backyard, but an apartment will probably be more updated and have a pool and such. Soon after Kyle gets out here Isabella arrives, and then Kristen a couple weeks later, so we'll definitely have it all sorted out in the next week and a half at the latest.

Its very sad thinking about being this far away from the rest of my family. I have never lived far enough away from my parents that I didn't see them at least once every 2 weeks. It is also hard being this far away from my grandparents because they don't like to fly and probably wont make the drive out here. This doesn't mean, however, that I won't be harassing them constantly to make the trip and eventually move out here. My mom said this morning that they are still definitely considering moving out here in a year or two (Cameron/Hannah- you better move west to make this happen!) so I'm holding out hope for that. If I didn't have family out here now I don't think I would have done this though, so it could be worse. At least I have them.

On a random note, we're watching a golf tournament right now that is actually INTERESTING. Everybody record this date and time, because it will never happen again. But there have been some crazy things happening in this tournament and it's just ridiculous. Also, golf always reminds me of working at CCF, and Katie just text messaged me. Weird timing.