Christmas Eve in LA

After a very fun morning opening presents we headed off to LA!  The first place we stopped was the Griffith Observatory which has amazing views of Hollywood. 

I would love to say that this was a PERFECT trip, but I felt like this...

miserable!

Luckily, Brent was good at having fun despite me not feeling great!You can barely make it out but there is the Hollywood sign in the background.  We found this as we were walking to the Griffith Observatory.

A gorgeous sky from the observatory.

You can actually see the Hollywood sign a little bit better here!

The views from the top of the observatory was really amazing!  What a great man who will plan a whole vacation in less than a week to make sure we have an amazing Christmas.

After the Observatory we went to the Holocaust museum.  Since we have actually been to a concentration camp this was a little more lack luster for us than it might be for others. Although it wasn't quite as impacting as Auschwitz we were both surprised at the fact that the US made legislation to keep Jewish immigrants out. 

After that we went to the Tar Pits.  Yes, there are actual tar pits in the middle of LA. You can see the tar pit behind Brent.

Aren't these trees amazing?!

Who knew my tracks were so big?  No wonder I have a hard time finding shoes!

Bamboo was everywhere.  I am pretty sure Brent would take some of this home in a heart beat!

At the art museum there were statues of all the chinese zodiacs. Since I was born in the year of the rabbit!  

Brent was born in the year of the rat!  There were some other ones!

There were also lamp lights.  This place was really fun!

Brent took a lot of pictures.

While I played a fun game that involved swing from one light lamp to the other.  It was really fun.

At the end of the day we went down to the walk of fame.  Can I just say that I wasn't that impressed.  Brent and I just aren't that into celebrities!  I do enjoy Matt Damon though, and we were able to find his footprints and hand prints.

Brent with Jay Leno's star.  We walked almost the whole thing and this is the only one that interested him in the least.

We were really excited to be there and see everything.  I wish I would have felt a little better but it was a great Christmas Eve anyway!  Thank you Brent for planning such a wonderful day!