After spending the morning and afternoon at Disneyland we came home and took a big nap. We needed to rest up before we drove South to Culver City to meet up with Caroline for dinner. We thought we were meeting Caroline and Minh for dinner (we didn't understand why we were meeting them in Culver City because they live near us) but we ended up meeting up with Caroline (no Minh), Matthew, Jung, Jon, and Danielle. It was a surprise but a good one. The seven us us had a great time catching up at Waterloo & City, a British Gastropub. Lots of beer and some pizza's later, Caroline and the 81st Street boys got all caught up. I told Caroline she should surprise me more often. It was a nice evening.
Have you ever watched those TV Game shows where they have a couple of doors and behind one is a grand prize? Well, this weekend the hub and I found out what was behind our Door #1. The hubby and I are starting the beginning phases of landscaping our backyard. Our first step, was to clean out the area behind our garage. When we moved in, there was about 2 feet of walking space behind our garage the rest of the area was covered in vines. Vines were growing on the roof and generally it was a mess. Not wanting the vines to take over the roof, we I started to clear out the vines last fall. But after we cut a million vines with only a pair of clippers we gave up and decided to clean out the rest in the spring. Spring came around and we didn't do much until one day when I was sick a few weeks ago, I ran into our gardener. I showed him the mess and asked if he knew of anyone who could come clean it out. I could tell he was actually, quite happy for me to broach the subject of
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