My big fat New Zealand Adventure

I'm on my big adventure! I've been here in LA for a few days now and I'm about to head out to New Zealand. I love LA!
I can't post picture while here...otherwise you'd see all the gorgeous buildings and gardens I've been exploring.
I met friends last Friday and we drove up to Solvang CA (about 2 hours north of LA...in land from Santa Barbara). Solvang is a Danish community and was celebrating Danish Days. We had a traditional apple cake and sausage breakfast and wandered around the artists' tents and sat in the beer garden to watch the parade...very civilized!
http://www.solvangca.com/1/photo/index.html

Saturday evening we had dinner at my FAVOURITE restaurant called "The Brothers" in Los Olivos. When I lived here and in Phoenix I would try to get to The Brother's as often as I could. They serve truly fabulous food in a beautiful old tavern.

http://www.matteistavern.com/

Back in LA on Sunday, I decided to go to the Getty Centre.

http://www.getty.edu/museum/

This is a wonderful Museum/ Research centre perched on a hill top overlooking downtown LA. I wish I could upload some of the pictures I took while there. I love it more for the architecture and gardens then the art inside. It's a great place to hang out. You have to park below the hill and take a tram up to the museum.

Next time I'll be in Auckland New Zealand! Have a great week everyone!

PS...it's looking like my links aren't working...so you'll just have to cut and paste them.