Birthday Weekend in Los Angeles

David is awful at keeping secrets. Seriously. Awful. So during my birthday dinner when I opened up plane tickets to Los Angeles, I was in complete shock. He pulled it off. He planned a long birthday weekend in Los Angeles without me knowing. I was super excited not only to explore the glamorous city of LA, but to also visit my sister who had moved out there about a year ago.

The trip was coming up quick, so I got to work right away researching what Los Angeles had to offer. I wanted a mix of glittering Hollywood and nature. I was actually pretty amazed by how many parks and hiking trails surrounded LA.

With a little resistance from my sister “the local” we did some tourist attractions like the Walk of Fame, Rodeo Drive, The Grove, & Santa Monica Pier. It was truly surreal. It’s everything you see on TV: perfect weather, mouthwatering food and expensive cars parked in front of boutiques that would require a 2nd mortgage to be affordable.

I was looking forward to exposing my sister to our passion of hiking. We hiked to Century Lake, which appeared in Tarzan and Planet of the Apes. We were pulled back into the Wild West walking through Paramount Ranch. And we scouted out the beaches of Point Dume and Leo Carrillo.