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Amazingly, there's a plan. A loose one anyway. My best friend and I decided that the last couple of summers weren't all that memorable, so to remedy that this year we came up with a list of places we'd like to go and events we plan to attend.
Two of these are already crossed off the list: The Annual Bug Fair at the Natural History Museum and the Valley Greek Festival at the Greek Orthodox Church in Northridge, CA.
The Greek Festival was great, as usual. The food is always amazing and the music is good. We never seem to find anything we really want to take home from the boutique area, but a giant container of Loukoumathes is always welcome. Loukoumathes are deep-fried dough balls, a little bigger than a doughnut hole,which are served warm and drizzled in honey and cinnamon. We usually split a container between two or three of us, and it's usually gone by the end of the day. We went early this year and avoided the lines, especially the line for the Loukoumathes which will often be more than a half-hour long. We met up with another friend of my BF and his S.O., so the four of us ate and had a good time together.
The Annual Bug Fair was another matter. I love my best friend, we like to say she's the sister my mom didn't have to give birth to, but bugs are definitely her thing and not mine. I would have hidden in the Gem & Mineral Gallery at the Natural History Museum if I could have gotten away with it, but the whole point of going was to keep my best friend company and to put my toes into the water of one of her interests. I discovered, without surprise that I don't like bugs, dead ones or live ones. I will admit that I'm grateful to the insect kingdom, their jobs in ecosystems worldwide keep us all alive, but I don't want most of them anywhere near me. Next year she's on her own!
So the (ongoing) list of activites for the rest of this summer is as follows:
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Huntington Library, Museum and Botanical Gardens
Traditional English Tea at the Huntington as well
The Japanese Gardens
A weekend up at Big Bear Lake
The Getty Villa Museum
Venice Beach
Dave & Busters (food, drinks, pool and video games, all 21 and over after 10 p.m.!)
The Andre Rieu Concert at the Nokia Theater
The Sycamore Springs Resort & Spa
and last but not least, our birthday trip in August (we're five days apart) which will hopefully consist of the Sequoia National Forest, San Francisco's Chinatown & Fisherman's Wharf, plus the new California Academy of Sciences.
