Best Friends Reunited: The Photos

As you know, Mary came to visit last week. We had a gloriously good time... maybe her best visit to LA yet! Here are some highlights from our much-anticipated reunion. (Captions by Mary, like in our last reunion post). :-)

Day 1: Those other life-changing three little words: bottomless. mimosa. brunch.

Two hours later, the pictorial exemplification of aforementioned bottomless mimosa brunch... pictures with a curly-haired dog belonging to strangers. 

After a (hazy) post-brunch watch party of the greatest television show of our time, The O.C. Season 1, Annie and Garrett took me to my very first Academy screening! The thing I remember most is that the audience stayed in their seats until the end of the credits and then applauded. The thing I remember least is the film. 

Dinner at a little diner called 'Swingers.' Copious amounts of fried food? check. Slightly rosy complexions indicating the beginning stages of a hangover? check. Annie wearing a shocking combination of black tights and a Pepperdine shirt? (Thank heavens my black trench coat came to the rescue) check.

(Note from Annie: my inappropriate-for-public outfit choice can fully be blamed on the bottomless mimosas. Trust me, I disapprove myself...thank heavens for Mary's trench coat indeed.)

Day 2: Absolutely glorious dinner on the patio at 'The Alcove.' Pink and orange California sunset coupled with twinkle lights and my bestie... lovely moment.

View of the city from The Griffith Observatory, conveniently located near Annie's apartment. That view really is magical, you can see straight down Western Ave, a very post-modern perspective.

Us with the city in the background. The evening was a little chilly, but I would take it over NYC in March any day. In fact, I even started to LIKE Los Angeles a little bit during this trip...

Day 3: The day we hiked a mountain. Literally, I took this picture two hilltops over from the Hollywood sign. The view was breathtaking and the exercise exhilarating, but why people would go jogging on a fault line everyday is beyond me. 

Lunch at Villa Blanca in Beverly Hills, owned by my favorite Real Housewife ever, Lisa Vanderpump and her husband Ken Todd, Annie's Sports Club LA buddy. (Apparently, he wears purple sweatpants to workout everyday, but it is still uncertain to us whether they are the same pair). Though lunch was delicious and the ambience fabulous, we were disappointed that we didn't get to see Lisa's mini-Pomeranian with Alopecia, Giggy. 

Visit to the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills to see Ed Ruscha's "Psycho Spaghetti Westerns" show. This was particularly exciting for me, because I'm currently doing research for the artist's catalogue raisonne. I think Annie takes these shots from behind for entertainment when I go off on art-related methodological tangents. 

Annie and I at The Sounds concert. We have been fans ever since Annie saw them open for The Strokes in 2002. It was so amazing to see them perform yet again! 

Maja from The Sounds. In the words of ZZ Top: She's got legs. And she knows how to use them. 

Hope you enjoy these pictures half as much as I enjoyed captioning them. (Oh, and experiencing them...)

Over and out,

Annie and Mary