We went camping in Malibu last night, tons of fun! I was lazy with my camera though, so not that many photos this time.
Camping is the best preparation for a 5K mud run, right?
2011 list
FYF Fest
We were gonna go to Sunset Junction last weekend and was super bummed when it got cancelled, so we were excited for this weeks FYF Fest instead.
There were quite a few good bands playing, with Broken Social Scene as my highlight, but the festival itself was pretty terrible organized. If we come back next year I will be better prepared for a not so well organized festival.
Rodrigo y Gabriella at Hollywood Bowl
We kicked off this Hollywood Bowl season with Rodrigo y Gabriella. I knew they were good on record, but they really blew me away live! And then fireworks at the end of the show!
Going Home From Catalina
We had a great day and night yesterday which ended around 1:30am after seeing 4 shooting stars!
We had the breakfast of champions today…
A super chill day at the beach before taking the ferry back home to Los Angeles. We saw whales playing in the water on the ride back home, super awesome!
As we all were busy checking out the whales, someone pointed down in the water not far from the ferry… A SHARK!!!
Camping at Catalina Island
We took a camping trip to Catalina Island over the weekend.
Burgers for lunch!
Scavenger hunt after lunch.
Team ABC Casa was clever and went to the tourist information to get all the answers.
Large beers at one of the local pubs.
“Are you gonna drink all that?”
Pina Colada means vacation!
Salton City pt.2
We came across a convenient store where we refilled our water storage, I dont think they’ve bothered with changing their flags since the 1970’s.
We found a spot where we could access the beach front, it was stinky, but still pretty cool.
Wait, is that dead fish washed up on the beach?
Yes, it is, and they dont seem to have had a pleasant death.
Wait a minute, are we actually standing a field of dead fish here? Eeek!
The beach covered in fishbone.
I love the light during the sunset!
This place was haunted!
We played with light for a bit after sunset before we got hungry and cranky after 6 hours of shooting and drove the 1 hour back to civilization and our hotel for the night.
Salton City pt.1
We went to Salton City for the weekend to take photos. Salton City is located right next to Salton Sea, 3 hours east of Los Angeles. Salton Sea was created due to poor engineering when redirecting the Colorado River. Heavy rainfall made the river flood in 1905 and created the lake, some 220 feet below sea level. They planted fish in the sea and Salton City was a popular tourist resort in the 1920’s.
By the late 1970’s people started to realize that since there were no outlets in the sea and no fresh water coming in, the sea got polluted and stinky and the fish started to die off. People moved away, leaving their houses behind – we thought that sounded cool and wanted to take photos!
So, it’s in the middle of the desert and dead hot! The sea looks oh so inviting but you don’t want to jump in, trust me!
This is where the marina used to be – it’s now fenced off;
The population of Salton City was down to less than 1000 in the year 2000.
Due to America’s crappy economy though, and since it’s so cheap to live in the middle of nowhere, the population had increased to almost 4000 in 2010. I think a lot of them lives in trailers.
I was fascinated at first, but then I got a little grossed out by all the trash. My friends gladly went into all these trashed trailers, but I was scared that they would fall apart once I was in there.
It was just a bunch of junk everywhere, and off course, bullet holes!
And then there’s desert…
This was probably some fancy living back in the days, with a pool and all!
Foster the People at the El Rey
We saw Foster the People at the Echo back in January and really liked them so we went to check out their sold out show at the El Rey tonight.
They have grown a lot in 6 months! Lots of energy on stage!
Tim Burton & Saint Motel at LACMA
I have never been a big fan of Tim Burton, he has done some cool stuff, but I often just find him weird and creepy. I still wanted to go check out his exhibit at LACMA though, and thought it was a great opportunity to go when Saint Motel was playing at the museum as well.
We were not allowed to take photos inside the Burton exhibit, but I sneaked one in anyway…
I was excited to see Saint Motel – I missed them last time they played in LA. Silent Comedy opened for them, they were ok.
Saint Motel were really good! The LACMA lights made a pretty good backdrop as well!
Sunrise over Los Angeles
We went out for dinner last night. Late night turned to early morning as it does when you solve the world problems. Since it was already 4am, we thought we’d might as well stay up a couple of more hours and catch the sunrise!
We headed over to the stairs, and there were already some people there working out at 6am on a Sunday morning!
6:30am
In-law love!
We ran into this one on the way down…
