Random fun in L.A.

Dave and I have been trying to get out more. We live in such an amazing place with lots of fun stuff to do, yet we tend to do the same things all the time. We're making a pact to explore our city and be "young and fun"! So here are our recent attempts at our end of the year resolution:

Last Thursday we decided to utilize our Disneyland season passes and headed over around 6pm. We got free parking at Downtown Disney, rode the monorail into Tomorrowland and rode on Space Mountain. And then we were so excited there was no line when we reached the Matterhorn! Too bad we missed the part about the park closing early to finish decorating for Christmas. Oops! We still had a fun night wandering around the park until they kicked us out. Next time we'll check the schedule before we try to be spontaneous!

On Friday, Dave took me to Hollywood Park to see the horse races. This is something Dave has wanted to do for years but I had been dragging my feet a bit. (It's in Inglewood people!) But we saw an ad in the paper that Friday was the opening night with $1 hotdogs and $1 beers and $2 minimum bets. We know nothing about horse racing but got a quick tutorial from a stranger and then placed a few bets. We had so much fun cheering our horse on and found out that we're pretty good at picking the 2nd place winner! :) All in all a fun and pretty inexpensive night!

We also took a drive out to Palos Verdes to go hiking by the Trump National Golf Course. You can park at the GC and then use the public hiking trails down to the beach. We brought Hannity and had so much fun exploring another part of our beautiful neighborhood.

Here is our attempt at a group shot on our way down to the beach.

It was low tide so all of the rocks were exposed and there were tide pools everywhere!

Hannity jumped right up on the rocks and went exploring.

We were so proud of our little L.A. prissy dog!

Here she is sniffing out those starfish.

In our search for new, fun and inexpensive things to do I found a website that gives away free tv show tickets. (I'm sure this isn't brand new information to anyone, but I was surprised and super excited about it!) I signed up for tickets to watch Faith Hill perform for a tv show special called "Home for the Holidays". We grabbed out good friends Jon & Lacey, left work early and dressed in our most festive attire. We drove up to Hollywood, waited in line and waited in line and waited in line. At the last minute we were allowed into the theater and given second row seats. It was a pretty intimate show (maybe a couple hundred people?) and she sang two songs, did a couple of commercials and chatted with the audience a bit. Dave and I were definitely filmed quite a bit so there is potential that we could be on tv during the special. How cool is that? So if you're interested, watch "Home for the Holidays" on CBS December 23rd at 8pm and look for us!

If you have more fun ideas for us to try, please let us know!