An LA Weekend

My time is limited so I will try to recap the fun weekend as briefly as possible. I went down to LA again this weekend, this time leaving on Thursday night. This gave Jessica and me the whole weekend to spend together since neither of us had work Fri-Sun; however, the weather had other plans. It rained all day Friday, which bummed us out since as we headed towards Scripps as Jessica ran some errands. We both wanted to walk around campus a bit, but the rain confined us to the indoors. Afterwards, we went back to Jessica’s place for a while before heading off to the Twin Palms in Pasadena for Natalie’s birthday party. The whole place kinda looks and feels like a big wedding reception, with tables and chairs set-up around the perimeter of a dance floor adjacent to the bar. The atmosphere was complete with the eclectic crowd of dancing partygoers that now live in infamy. Later reminiscing evoked reactions like, “Remember pink-shirt guy?” or, “Did you see grey-sweater dude?” and “The best was the dancing cowboy,” (and he was).

Nate and I got tangled up in a drinking bout, and even though the effects were minimal on me (Jess and I did have pasta for dinner), they were catastrophic on Nate. He was buzzed towards the end of the evening and got to say “hello” to the gutter a couple of times on the way home. Fortunately, he spent the night before heading out in the morning. Unfortunately, the effects still affected him the next day, as he was still feeling sick, he later told me, until about 8pm that night! I felt bad for the way things had happened to Nate (as they weren’t my intentions), so we vowed never to repeat that mistake.

On both Saturday and Sunday, Jessica and I enjoyed a nice relaxing time recovering from the late night of partying. It was fun being lazy all day and after a hectic past couple of weeks, it was nice to nap a little and relax as a couple. We did make plans to go out on Saturday night, and picked up Rob before going to a Cuban restaurant in Burbank (where I got to use my KCRW card for the first time!) then heading to Hollywood to catch another improv-show. We got back home at about 10:30pm and were exhausted, feeling lame but not really caring. It was another fun weekend with a nice balance of the exciting and the relaxing. Now back to the daily grind.