Last Sunday - Tuesday, Steve, Peyton, and I went to Los Angels for a seminar Steve had. We figured we might as well make a family trip out of it!
We departed the Olson Chateau Sunday morning and made our way into LA that evening. We actually stayed in Woodland Hills which is right next to Calabasas. And if you're a fan of reality tv, then you'd know that Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey lived there (back in the day), Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett live there, as well as the Kardashiahs. Just to name a few. :)
The many looks of Peyton on our way there!
Ear pressure - yikes.
He got so giddy when he saw the windmills!
Los Angeles Skyline
So we drove around Calabasas Sunday night after we checked into our room. It's so beautiful and in the mountains. We ate dinner and came back to our hotel. Peyton stayed up with us until around 11pm when we finally went to bed and put him in his crib. He wasn't happy about it at all and bawled himself to sleep. :(
We got an upgrade to the City Suite
(basically a city view)
Peyton kept saying, "WOW!" and running to the window.
He loved all the lights outside!
Next on Peyton's to-do list: check out
everything else in the room!
Monday we woke up and enjoyed ourselves a little continental breakfast. Steve worked a bit, then we headed to Malibu. We drove by some real estate agents homes who Steve drools over (HIGH producers). We saw the Coldwell Banker office where a few of the agents work who are on Million Dollar Listing (reality tv show). Overall, we had a nice time driving around Malibu, imagining what it would be like to be one of those big-time agents. Someday!
Looking out the window in the morning.
Then we headed to Paradise Cove for lunch. It was off the road, but we saw a sign and lots of people turning into it. Turns out it's a beautiful restaurant on the beach in a cove in Malibu. Lots of movies and commercials had been shot in that cove area, so it was a good choice!
Hanging out, waiting for our table:
Lunch Time!
Afterwards we headed to the Santa Monica pier. We walked around for awhile and headed back to our hotel.
Saw the green flash as the sun set over the ocean.
Tuesday, Steve was off to his seminar before we woke up. Once Peyton and I rolled out of bed, we had a leisurely morning getting ready and again, eating the continental breakfast. When Steve got back around 1pm, Peyton was OUT on the bed, and it was SO hard to wake him up because he'd been going, going, going since Saturday morning and this was his first real nap since then. But, we had to check out and head home, so we woke him up and I felt so bad.
We stopped by DASH on our way out of town. DASH is the clothing store owned by the Kardashian sisters in Calabasas. If you ever watch their show, you'll see it on there once in awhile. It was a super cute shop, very small, and a t-shirt that said, "DASH" on it was $50. And that was the cheapest thing in there, unless you wanted to buy a blinged out pencil that said Kardashian on it for $5. HA! I must say, all the jewelry and clothing looked just like something they would wear, so that was pretty cool. I actually saw some things I think I have seen them wearing on their show.
However, one of the things I really, really wanted to buy was a
Mackenzie-Childs teapot. Yes, out of all their clothes, I wanted a teapot! I just recently got into Mackenzie-Childs and am totally going to start collecting her courtly check ceramics. This will be my fine china that I will probably spend several years (decades even?) collecting. I LOVE it. Anyway, they had the courtly check teapot sitting out and it seemed so odd they would have this in their store - so I asked if it was for sale and they said it was a leftover teapot from the Kardashian Christmas Party - they gave each guest a teapot as a gift. It even had a tag on it that said, "Get Your Jingle On! Love, the Kardashians and Jenners." OMG! I wanted
this specific one badly now, what a great story for my first piece of Mackenzie-Childs! But, I passed it up. :)
So we then were on our merrily little way home. Once we fought the LA rush hour traffic, we were good to go. We arrived back at the Olson Chateau around 12:30am. It was a fabulous trip and we all spent the next 4 days recovering and getting Peyton back on schedule. He fought going to bed the next few nights. He ran a 102 degree temp on Friday. But, by Saturday we were all back to normal!
Now we're counting down the days till we go back to Cali - in July!!!!
