Monday, August 11, 2008

Olympics & More....

I have neglected blogging duties for a long time so this one will be long. I am super excited about the Summer Olympics and wish I could take 2 weeks off work so I can stay up all night and watch all the events. This past weekend I pretty much parked myself in-front of the TV and watched tons of Olympic events. How exciting was the swimming relay Sunday night? I don't like the events of the Summer Olympics as much as I do the Winter ones but there are some must sees. I love gymnastics, diving, swimming (Michael Phelps...hello) and badminton. Don't even get me started on the events I don't think should even be an Olympic sport but that's another topic.

Sasha had her very first photo shoot this past Saturday. I
f you have a dog or cat and want to have their photos taken....please check out Grace Chon. She is really good with dogs and her work is amazing. We can't wait to get our pictures back....she got some really good ones of Sasha. I was afraid Sasha would get antsy during the shoot but she actually did really well. She behaved herself and posed for almost 2 hours. It was really hot outside and towards the end she was panting pretty hard. Proud of my baby girl and we'll have photos soon to show.

Mark and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary a week ago. I can't believe
a year has already passed. I'm lucky to have met such a wonderful guy who loves me unconditionally and it's been truly a great year with him in my life. Mark planned a really nice weekend for us and would not tell me what we were doing until the Friday of our annivesary weekend. He booked us into a new hotel in West Hollywood called The London. This is the hotel where Gordon Ramsey's new restaurant is. The hotel is really nice and modern and close to a lot of our destinations. We started off by going to Pink's Hot Dog since Mark had never been. We waited in line for at least 40 minutes but it was well worth it.


Saturday night, Mark took me to a restaurant called Musso & Franks. It's an old landmark restaurant by the Pantages Theater that is a bit creepy inside. The dark and old and the food is just so so. At least we can say we've been but I don't think we ever plan to go back. Part of the reason we went is because we went to watch Wicked again. Some of the characters had different people playing them than from the first time we went but it was still really good. I just love that play so much.



On Sunday, we went to see Steph at her new store, Fashionology. I made a sweatshirt at the store and let me tell you..it's not as easy as it looks. But maybe it's because I wanted to put lots of rhinestones on my sweatshirt so that took awhile. They have some really cute designs in the store and I'm hoping they'll start carrying adult size t-shirts and pants so I can go back and make some more. After that we went to Tiffany's to finalize ring styles and then went to The Farm for lunch. Love their Lobster Cobb Sandwich. So delicious. We had dinner at Gordon Ramsey's new restaurant Sunday night and let me tell you....the portions there are for pint size people. It was tiny! The food was pretty good and I hope he changes up the menu every season. I was hoping Gordon Ramsey would be walking around but no such luck.


Overall it was a wonderful weekend and I'm glad the two of us got some quality time together and even though we didn't travel far....it seemed like we were away on a mini vacation. Thanks honey.

I had to lay someone off at work today and it's not easy. It's tough with the economy today. It's someone's livelihood you are dealing with but I have to remind myself that it's just business. All I can do is try to be fair and that's that.

Ok....back to the Olympics. China just won gold medal for men's synchronized diving. Amazing. They are so good in this event. I think beach volleyball may be up next so I better use that time to take a shower so I don't miss men's gymnastics coming up later on tonight.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Sounds like it was a wonderful weekend! Love the photos, and am excited to see the ones of Sasha.

I hope work settles down.