Once upon a time in Los Angeles

Wow. I am still a little sore and sunburned from my labor day trip down in LA. I did manage to get quite a few pictures which can be found here. Most of the Altadena YG were down in San Diego for ACYF over the weekend. There were two sisters from Minnesota, and two brothers from Phoenix and Prescott, AZ in attendence. On Friday evening we had some struggles with pre-holiday weekend airports, ick. Things turned around Saturday with a busy day.

We started it off with some beach volleyball at Hermosa Beach in the morning. For lunch we hit Venice Beach and wandered around seeing the sights. We visited the UCLA campus town for cookie ice cream sandwitches and some bubble tea. Then we helped Braden Mogler pick up a free leather couch in Santa Monica and hauled it out to Pepperdine in Malibu. Braden's GPS steered us wrong when we tried a scenic route out of Malibu only to find a gated off dirt road at the top of a mountain. Braden's taurus had a slight case of smoking brakes on the way down. In the future shifing into first will be considered earlier. After a tour of Pepperdine it was back to BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse for some pizza dinner. We visited the UCLA quad for singing. A few in our party decided that they wanted to slide down a big hill there in campus seeing as how it was wet from watering. Whew, I think everyone was tired after that day.

After church on Sunday we were going to go for a hike, but the heat was pretty extreme, so we instead spent the day enjoying fellowship and games back at the Klotzle's.

Labor Day was spent again at Hermosa Beach with some of the group enjoying rollerblading, the local art festival, and some nice waves. Lunch at Scotty's on the beach was the last thing I did before having to clean up and hit Burbank Airport for my 6:00 flight home (which all of my expectations was right on time, and actually got in early to San Jose).

I hope everyone else had as good a Labor Day weekend as I did.