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    | Our sweet ride ;) | 
    Our official before picture...we NEEDED a vacation | 
    Pizza! | 
    Delicious pesto pizza | 
  
  
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    | Pizza Place | 
    Vinny with the plant dinosaurs | 
    Me with a smelly good plant dinosaur | 
    Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica | 
  
  
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    | View of Santa Monica Pier from above PCH | 
    View of beach looking the other way | 
    California has amazing plants and flowers, couldn't get enough! | 
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    Pretty flowers make up for small size :) | 
    The Getty Center | 
  
  
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    | The Getty Center | 
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    Beatiful cactus garden | 
    View from Getty Center | 
  
  
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    Neat flower trees made out of metal | 
    Beautiful huh? | 
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    Twin cousins :) | 
    Beautiful succulents at the Getty Center | 
    Michael and Vinny | 
  
  
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    | This was an accidental shot but I kinda like it! | 
    Hollywood Blvd | 
    Kodak Theatre, home of the Oscars | 
    Creepy place...lots of sketch! | 
  
  
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    | Hollywood Blvd | 
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    Really? Cmon!! | 
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    Unfortunately we didn't see TomKat | 
    Vinny and his caterpillar roll | 
    I had 'shabu shabu' which is defined as bland and laborous | 
  
  
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    | Vinny's cousin, Jeff and his son, Jack, total cutie! | 
    Vinny looking like a true Californian in our convertible on PCH | 
    Driving to Malibu on PCH | 
    funky house on PCH | 
  
  
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    | Malibu -- home of Malibu Barbie & Malibu Chicken | 
    Colorful houses in Malibu | 
    Lots of rich people.. | 
    May Grey -- still beautiful though! | 
  
  
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    | My handsome husband enjoying Malibu | 
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    Malibu! | 
  
  
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    | Santa Monica Beach -- busy even though it was cloudy and cool | 
    My friend, Dawn and I! | 
    Vinny & Oscar | 
    Interesting tourist trap...apparently caricatures are old school! | 
  
  
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    | See the pile of snow? No idea what it was, where it came from but it was definitely snow? | 
    Bearded woman on stilts...cool... | 
    Seagull and bearded woman on stilts on the pier | 
    Carousel on the Pier | 
  
  
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    | 100 years old! | 
    Vinny, always amazing the children (look at her cute bike!) | 
    Dawn and I again, it was our first 'in real life' meeting! | 
    Dinner at Border Grill (we saw Larry David at dinner!) | 
  
  
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    | Third Street Promenade at night! | 
    lol...VIP boys! | 
    We drug the boys shopping...they obviously loved it! | 
    Beverly Hills @ night | 
  
  
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    | lol -- spastic wife, mellow husband! | 
    Hollywood! | 
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    | Vinny & the very far away Hollywood sign | 
    lol...tricked Vinny. | 
    Griffith Observatory | 
    Beautiful LA (gag) | 
  
  
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    | Beautiful flowers everywhere! | 
    Venice Beach | 
    We didnt see any good murals...maybe next time! | 
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    | Venice Beach Bikes |