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Topic: Back From Vacation -- Photos, Part I

I've been catching up on the board after our vacation.  There has been so much sadness here during such a short time.  I hope you don't mind if I lighten the mood a little with some vacation photos.

Mr. Ingy and I traveled to California and spent 8 days traveling along the coast.  While there, we hooked up with Misspm who is as easy and wonderful as she is here on the board!  It was such a treat for me to see her in person and introduce her and Mr. Ingy, since they have both heard so many good things about each other.  The time just flew!  When we said goodbye, I felt like I was going to see her again in a day or two just like you do with good friends. 

We met in Pasadena at the Huntington botanical gardens. It is a gorgeous place with specialty gardens including roses, desert plants, a tropical garden, palm garden, Chinese garden, Japanese garden, Shakespeare garden, water garden, and more.  There is also an art museum and library there.  Here are a few shots I took at Huntington:

Here are a few views of the hotel we stayed at in downtown LA. It was definitely our most deluxe accommodations of the trip. This is where the first several Academy Award ceremonies were held, where JFK ran part of his 1960 Presidential campaign from, and where the Beatles stayed on the LA leg of their 1964 American tour.  (They arrived by helicoptor onto the roof because of the thousands of fans swarming the hotel at street level).  Turns out that Oscar de la Hoya and his entourage were staying there for his prize fight that weekend. We saw a number of guys who looked like promoter/manager types, but no Oscar.

And, of course, no trip to LA is complete without a few iconic shots of Hollywood.  Oddly, there is a small subdivision at the base of the Hollywood sign; that's someone's carport in the lower left corner.  The other shot is the Hollywood freeway and the downtown LA skyline taken from Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood hills. 

I'll post more photos in separate topics. 

Those are great pics Ingy!!  I would love to visit that garden.  And that hotel... WOW!!

Maybe one day I'll make it outside the borders of Georgia.  LOL

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Thanks, Dana. It really was a great trip. There are some lovely places in Georgia, too -- Savannah in particular. BTW, please accept my condolences on Mac Mac's passing. ~i&b

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Posted by: cgeminime2
Date posted: Sun May 11 16:18:38 2008
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Glad you had a great time....but, where are the photos? I've checked all three topics and I don't even have red x's.

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Same here!!! I'm glad you had a good time too but all I see are re X's!! LOL! Kat

Yeah...all red x's for me too!~ LISA K

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