Posts from the ‘California’ category
Asian Art Museum
Tuesday, May 30th, 2017Piazza Angelo Venus
Tuesday, May 30th, 2017Intl Museum of American Art
Tuesday, May 30th, 2017St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Tuesday, May 30th, 2017Hyatt Embarcadero
Tuesday, May 30th, 2017Balcony view
Monday, May 29th, 2017Golden Gate Bay Cruise
Monday, May 29th, 2017Descanso Gardens
Sunday, May 28th, 2017Dodgers Stadium
Friday, May 26th, 2017LA City Hall
Friday, May 26th, 2017Broad Museum
Friday, May 26th, 2017Santa Monica Sunset
Thursday, June 19th, 2014
Norton Simon Museum
Thursday, June 19th, 2014Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens
Thursday, June 19th, 2014On our last day in LA, we headed out to Pasadena so I could show Brian the Norton Simon Museum. We had also heard that the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens was lovely, and it was open earlier, so we headed there first.
This place is absolutely gorgeous! Henry and Arabella Huntington amassed an enormous collection of rare books, art, and plants from all over the world, and it was an incredibly pleasant and peaceful place to wander around. In the library, we saw a Gutenberg Bible (among many other fascinating things). In the art collection, we saw the usual array of lovely paintings and interesting sculptures, and the gardens truly knocked our socks off. The rose garden was spectacular, and the Japanese garden, with the lily pads, the bridge and the colorful fish swimming in the pond was really breath-taking!
Getty Villa
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014Dinner at Frida’s
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LACMA
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
Getty Center
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
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Driving around LA
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
Visiting Adam and Celeste
Monday, June 16th, 2014Those two crazy kids got married in private in April, so it turned out that this was also our first time seeing my brother and his wife since they got married! When we arrived in LA, we headed straight to their house. We got a tour of their beautiful new home, and caught up over take-out. I realize now that I forgot to take a picture of them (they probably don’t mind) … I was too busy taking pictures of my niece and nephew: their cats, Ivy and Mosby.
Pismo Beach
Monday, June 16th, 2014Back on the road … we arrived at Adam and Celeste’s house in Los Angeles by dinner time.
Driving through California
Monday, June 16th, 2014It really is a beautiful country.
Monterey
Monday, June 16th, 2014We stopped in Monterey around 9:30am … only an hour in to our trip, but very worth it! Fisherman’s Wharf is a fun place to walk around, and it was awesome to see a big family of sea lions. We could hear their ‘arf! arf!’ from quite a ways away.
Backyard BBQ in Berkeley
Sunday, June 15th, 2014Same as that afternoon, our time together was over all too soon, but it was much better to spend three hours with them than none at all.
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San Francisco
Sunday, June 15th, 2014We met up with Lou and Jonathan in her old neighborhood, where I stayed with her in 2006 and 2007, and we walked a very familiar route a few blocks down to the ocean at the Cliff House and Sutro Baths. It feels like the end of the earth there since it’s essentially the northwest corner of San Francisco, and there’s an incredibly wide vista (see video below) … nothing but ocean until you reach Japan. I used to take walks down there every day, so it was great to be back!
Then, we headed over to the Legion of Honor (a museum and park) for amazing views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the South Bay and the Marin Headlands. We drove around a bit so we could see some more of San Francisco, and then after a stop for coffee and ice cream, our time together was over all too soon.
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Campbell Farmers’ Market
Sunday, June 15th, 2014
Sean and Clif’s Wedding
Saturday, June 14th, 2014
Shabbat at Jen’s
Friday, June 13th, 2014Friday night, we headed to Jen’s house in San Jose for a lovely Shabbat dinner with her and her kids, who love playing with Brian 🙂