City of Angels

On Friday we woke up early, 7:45, to get going on all our errands for the day. Han checked her phone, still a bit groggy with sleep, and got a rude shock! Izzy: "About to take off!!! See u beauties in 6 hours!" at 5:07am. Whaaaat?? Wait... 5:07 + a 6 hour flight = 11:07am - AM!!! Oh my gosh!!! The girls had never specified am or pm and we had thought all along that they were arriving at night! We flew out of bed and got down to business! Get this, in two hours (because we had to leave at 10:00 to get to the airport on time) we...
1) made signs for the girls for when they arrived at the airport
2) cleaned the kitchen and bathroom
3) vacuumed
4) Han went to Ralph's
5) Luce baked a cake
6) washed the sheets and remade the beds
7) had a couple, erm, not so successful moments which we pushed through haha
8) showered/got dressed and ready to be in public
9) wrote up the itinerary we had planned for the week!
And we were off! We got away on time, completely impressed with ourselves that we were able to get everything done! We made it to the airport and got to the gate with about 10 minutes to spare before Sarah's flight arrived!

REUNITED!!! It was AMAZING to engulf each other in a huge hug! It was just as wonderful when Izzy arrived 15 minutes later and we were finally all together again! So much love for those girlies!!

We pretty much had a bonus night, so after chilling for a while at home we went out for an evening at Universal Citywalk to have sushi and watch... DIVERGENT!!! 

It was the perfect first night, we were SO satisfied with the film and the sushi was to die for! The only hiccough was that Izzy came down with a bit of a bug from being on the plane, so we tucked her into bed as soon as we got home and all slept soundly ready for more shenanigans the next day!

On Saturday we took it pretty easy. Han was the mum in the morning, grabbing medicine for Izzy and grocery shopping before everyone else got up. We headed out of the apartment and went to Amoeba Music again, the girls had their first ever In-N-Out burgers for lunch, and we shopped/went to Sprinkles for cupcakes at The Grove.

We went home and had dinner and chatted until 2:30! (except Izzy who fell asleep on the couch at 10:00)

Yesterday was a glorious beach day! On the way we drove past The Bachelor house to sneak a look at Andi (the next Bachelorette) and her beaus, so cool!

Then it was on to the stunning El Matador Beach!

After some beautiful sunshine, we went to Santa Monica to shop, have fish and chips for dinner, and walk the pier.

We were asked by a huge group to take their picture as we were leaving and we had them return the favor afterwards.

They took our picture and then one attempted a photobomb - before we knew it, we'd invited everyone in and had made a big old group of friends!

Too funny!

Today we went to Universal Studios and it was SO MUCH FUN! It's been ages since we've been and there's a deal on at the moment which means we got an annual pass for the price of a 1-day ticket! We got there early, rode all the rides, saw the shows, met some minions (one of whom pretty much attacked Lucy) and Optimus Prime (who was HILARIOUS and called us "Optimus's Angels"), and saw Minnie Driver on set during the backlot tour!

We'd pretty much done the whole park by about 5:00! Wow! So we came home, spent a little while in the hottub, ordered Chinese take away, sipped on some wine that Sarah brought with, and are about to demolish a delicious dessert that Izzy made this arvo! Such a wonderful few days with much more to come!