Friday night we were exhausted from the work week, so we vegged on the couch, watched Friday Night Lights and went to bed early.
Saturday morning we visited a nearby bakery that we discovered recently. It's a French bakery called Le Pain du Jour that is only open until 12:30 p.m. each day and provides breads for a group of West LA restaurants. (It's so French that the website is only in French.) We bought a loaf of the hazelnut, raisin, walnut bread, which we tried last weekend, and ate that for breakfast/lunch.
Loaded with carbs, we spent the morning and much of the afternoon doing laundry, cleaning our condo and organizing two of our closets and one of our media cabinets. It was long overdue and we felt so good when it was all done.
That evening we fought against some crazy wild wind to go have dinner at a place called Noodle Planet in Westwood. Garlic chicken and pad see ew. Mmm... We battled some more wind to grab some ice cream sandwiches from Diddy Riese. We took our stuff, tired selves home and watched Gladiator. Brent had seen it, but I hadn't and we wanted to watch it post-visit to the Colosseum. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Sunday morning I met up with a bunch o' gals for brunch at Jack N Jills in Beverly Hills, where we spotted Magic Johnson. After brunch we moseyed around the corner over to Crumbs Bakery. I sampled a mini Twinkies flavor, and took home a cookie dough and a key lime.
More pics of our morning on WeeMo's blog.
After hanging out with the gals, Brent and I picked up stuff for my Halloween costume. We're having a contest at work and I came up with a fun idea. Hopefully I can pull it together as planned.
We spent the rest of the day lazing around. I napped and we watched news coverage of the Malibu fires, which are far enough not to worry us but close enough to see the smoke-filled sky. That, paired with the winds, makes my allergies so very happy. On opposite day.
"Grace, coming out is something you do once in a lifetime, like being born or watching Magic Johnson's talk show." - Will, Will & Grace
I love that you found a Magic Johnson quote, even if it disses his crappy talk show.
ReplyDeleteWhere DO the weekends go?? Sounds like you had a good one, even though it flew by...
ReplyDeleteyay for productivity (organizing/cleaning), lounging, AND yummy food.
ReplyDeleteooh i love crumbs cupcakes, i just had them for the first time last week, delicious.
ReplyDeleteand good thing you're not near the fires, it's been crazy seeing it on the news all day.
Okay, I'm jealousE. I want some damn cupcakes.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on the weekends flying by. I always feel a little sad when Sunday night rolls around.
Sounds like a fun weekend! Whatcha gonna be for Halloween? Huh? Huh?
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a great weekend. Yummy cupcakes!
ReplyDeleteAlso, thank you for your comments. : )
jim and i were just saying how quickly it seems like the weekends go by. sounds like you squeezed a lot in though.
ReplyDeletelove gladiator!
You'd never seen Gladiator?!? I thought everyone had.
ReplyDeletecool, you saw magic!!
ReplyDeletecupcakes look yummy =)
You know a bunch of restaurants in Westwood got hit by the health inspector? Elysee got a C and I think a bunch of other restaurants were shut down and or downgraded. I think Mr. Noodle was one of them but not noodle planet! I love their curry beef. mmm...you're making me miss westwood more!
ReplyDeleteThose cupcakes look freakin' awesome.
ReplyDeleteYay for yummy cupcakes!
ReplyDeleteYour weekend sounds like it was surrounded by delicious foods! YUM...my mouth is watering from the pictures of those cupcakes.
ReplyDeleteI always think 3 day weekends would be so much better, but I bet if we had those i'd be saying 4 day weekends would be better! ;)
How awesome that you saw Magic Johnson....loved him back in the day.
we stayed in friday night too- and I realized how much i love Friday Night Lights!
ReplyDeletei think it's funny that something with "ew" in the name is so delicious!
ReplyDeleteI just recently took everything out of my hallway walk-in closet and purged it of the things that I no longer need. I can actually walk into it now! hahahaha!
ReplyDeleteThat Jack N Jills place seems so darn cute! Can't wait to see your Halloween costume pics :)
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