On Thursday, Tim celebrated his 30th birthday! To celebrate his Big 3-0, we ventured into downtown LA on Saturday. We ate dinner and watched the Duke/UNC basketball game at Big Wangs, a restaurant/bar that is as good as its name! Tim couldn't resist the 25 cent wings and the PBR special to celebrate his birthday. Despite Duke's loss, we had a fun time at dinner. After dinner, we went down to LA Live and to the Staples Center to watch the Clippers vs. Nuggets basketball game. This was Jodi's first live NBA experience and we had a good time. We were very excited at the potential of witnessing one of Blake Griffin's ridiculous dunks, but as our luck would have it, he didn't even attempt one.
On Sunday, we drove to UCLA for the women's gymnastics meet against Georgia and Arizona at Pauley Pavilion. Given that UCLA won the national championship last year and Georgia has also won in recent years, we knew it would be a good competition to see. We also knew there would be some previous Olympians in the competition. We saw Samantha Peszek (2008 Olympics) and Shayla Worley (who trained at Orlando Metro but missed out on the 2008 Olympics due to injury) compete for UCLA and Georgia, respectively. It was also cool to see Chris Waller (1992 Olympics) on the sidelines as a UCLA assistant coach. While their routines are quite watered down from Olympic material, we still saw some excellent gymnastics.
It was another successful weekend of memorable adventures in LA. We haven't yet made any plans for next weekend, but we are positive we will not have any trouble coming up with something.
happy birthday tim miss yal hope yal having a good time looks like yal are.i told u how flag was going to be tell your wife hi.i getting better it just slow gray killing me so he doing what u told him,,,miss u have a good one
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like a great birthday. As you can imagine all of the "fun" milestones are over.
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine suggested another good activity for you all: The Channel Islands. I've never been, and most of them are a nature preserve. But, apparently you can take a boat from Long Beach to them and spend the day. Santa Clarita is the one that's inhabited. And, if I remember correctly, it was featured in the movie Step Brothers. Anyway, here's the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Islands_of_California
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