10 extra weeks

For those of you who do not know, two weeks ago we both accepted offers to extend our contracts at our respective facilities.  Both facilities were hoping that we would extend for another 13 weeks, but to make sure we can attend beach week in July we could only extend for an additional 10 weeks.  As it stands now we will be here until July 8th.  We both really enjoy where we work and more importantly love where we live.  There is so much to do and see here, we're not sure we can fit it all in even with the extra 10 weeks.  

Tim had to work yesterday so we had to cram in our weekend outing into 1 day.  We made our way into Hollywood on Oscar Sunday to attend Rock of Ages at the historic Pangtages Theater.  For those of you who watched The Academy Awards tonight, you may have seen that this theater hosted the awards from 1950 to 1960 which included the first televised Academy Awards.  We arrived in Hollywood several hours early to walk around the Hollywood Farmers Market and along Hollywood Boulevard towards the red carpet.  We made it close enough to see all of the barricades and the enormous oscar statues along the red carpet (sorry we didn't get any pictures, we only had our phones which couldn't zoom in well enough) before we turned around to make it to the show on time.  If anyone has a chance to go see Rock of Ages we highly recommend it, we both absolutely loved it.

It has been a cold weekend here in Southern California, all elevations above 2000 ft saw snow accumulation on Friday. The mountains around us and throughout L.A. County are beautifully snowcapped.  Believe it or not Tim had a snowy drive to and from work yesterday.  Our scenic commute along CA Freeway 14 ascends over 4000 ft before we make it into the high desert of The Antelope Valley.

Since our adventures were limited to just one day, all of the pictures of the weekend are within this posting.  See you next week!