Yuliya and Tanya Came to Visit!

Last weekend (April 20-22) was such a blast! My best friend Tanya and sister Yuliya came to visit us!! I am so glad that they were able to come! When you put us three together, we will out-energize the energizer bunny.

Saturday:

We went to Venice Beach, which is about 30 minutes from home. We had sort of planned to go to Huntington or Malibu but those were about an hour to an hour and half away. Time being of the essence we decided to stick around closer. It's a pretty nice beach, not sure if for swimming, but for the sand and things to see it's very cool.

Here are my lovelies: How can you go to the beach and not take any pictures by palm trees?!

 And it has been officially deemed.... that I am horrible at taking action photos... I miss the action. I kid you not about 20+ shots later like these:

 

 

 I got this shot... Tanya didn't think I would be able to do it so she decided not to jump that time- and only that time-... and viola! now think... if they were both in the air....

Yuliya on the other hand is very good at taking action photos (she's good at pictures... period.) She got us in the air E-V-E-R-Y time.

The infamous hat picture when you walk down a boardwalk:

We met a cool family from Australia! Who came to vacation in Los Angeles, CA! hmm... out of all the choices. But they were definitely exploring- Disneyland, Universal Studios, Boardwalks, Museums, Etc. A very friendly bunch with really cool accents. And another cool thing about them was: they took a picture of the three of us in one shot; which is difficult to do- sort of. 

 After a few hours of enjoying the boardwalk and the beach we headed out to Hollywood & Highlands (Yuliya has never been and Tanya couldn't remember is she has or hasn't).

The entire time we were up here, my legs felt like they were going to tie into a knot. I realized that 3rd floor height is okay for me but when we get to the 4th... it starts tickling me! (the girls enjoyed looking over the ledge and I enjoyed the center of that floor)

Then!! After dinner we headed over to.............. where do you take your guests that have never been to your city?! DOWNTOWN.

Sunday:

Before we head out to church; we were waiting around....

Because of this:

Black car+ hard water+ warm weather= permanent spots in the clear coat... and being black... it will show. Very curious how our water sprinkler system works, because it got every side of the car...

After church, Anna and Mark were able to come out to lunch with us. Technically they took us to lunch, so we joined them. We went to a hidden place in Sherman Oaks/Beverly Hills- which serves Israeli food. mmmhmm. Shishkabob+ hummus+ rice+ pita bread.... We enjoyed talking over our meal for about 2.5 hours and we would have probably continued if the girls didn't have to head back up to Sacramento.

This was as close as we could get to get a picture with all 6 of us in it.... Yuliya was mentioning something about overlaying two pictures and making one... but I've yet to master the wonders of photo shop. But see: everyone was there!