A Bit Off Center: Vacay with K dog

In October, the hubs and I pawned of our hooligans to loving grandparents and aunts and uncles while we partied in LA and celebrated our 10th anniversary. Boy, was it awesome.

Day one took us to IKEA (hooray!) in the morning for a quick walk-through and a few purchases. Our next stop was Universal Studios. Honestly folks, I wasn't thrilled with this because I remember going to the Studios back in the day and watching a Miami Vice water show. Ouch! I am that old. Anywho, I thought it was going to be lame and guess what???? it was, but we still managed to have some fun.

Back in my glory days (way way way back) this kid (a.k.a. Paul Walker) took me out on a date. It's a good story and maybe, if you're lucky, I'll tell you sometime. Obviously though, it didn't work out. Who would want to end up with a movie star husband anyway?!?!?
NOT ME

Oh boy, the part I hated most about going to Universal Studios is that they have a haunted spooky time after the park closes. You pay an extra million dollars to go in and have psychos jump out at you and pretend they're going to jam knives into your spleen or decapitate you with a chain saw. I h-a-t-e-d it but my beloved in his guilt inducing way said that if I loved him I'd go to this scary thing with him AND I had to go through a haunted house. I don't know when I became so sensitive to pure evil (meaning the haunted house, not Kelly) but I survived and finally (finally!) it was over and I was glad.

But the BEST most FUNNEST most HAPPY time I had was going to a flea market in Long Beach. Boy, did we have a good time. See me up in that picture? I was excited.

And here's some of my loot. Kelly also had a really good time. There were just hundreds of vendors and all kinds of goodness and we ate gross hot dogs and drank diet pepsi and I got yelled at by some guy saying I stole his wife's blue awesome basket. And I was like, "Yo, if your wife wanted it so badly, she should have picked it up and paid the man." I wasn't going to back down and I have my beautiful basket thing in my living room if you want to come see it. I was scared of the man, though, and tried to avoid him the rest of the day. He had evil eyes.

We took some lovely pictures of ourselves after dinner that night but they didn't turn out so well, so we have this instead. It's pretty accurate though.

We spent Monday in Santa Monica and went to the spa (Las Vegas does it better, just FYI) and enjoyed 3rd Street Promenade which is a favorite place of ours.

Our last morning of freedom was spent at the Farmers Market and The Grove. Kelly likes to mingle with the Hollywood type so we tried to find some. Here's what Kelly looks like when conversing with me.

And here's what I look like in mid conversation. So pleasant.

Well what do you know but Extra films at the Grove and we were HAND PICKED to be in the BACKGROUND! Some producer lady asked us if we would like be behind AC Slater and Maria somebody and I told the lady it would make my husband's dream come true. Kelly was embarrassed but that was the truth, yo. I grew up with this stuff (remember I dated a movie star? and I've been in a couple of shows but whatever...) so I'm not really phased by it. Anywho, we stood behind the hosts for awhile and we have the episode where you can see Kelly's head floaing in the background if you want to come over and see it. We sure do love our DVR. It's pretty exciting.