Forest Lawn

What a beautiful Memorial Park this is!  If I actually wanted to be buried, I would want a spot somewhere here, amongst the beautiful architecture...  But I don't...  Anyway!

Andrew took me to the Master's Chorale performance of "Handel's Messiah" which was held in Forest Lawn's "Cathedral" which houses the largest painting in the world - The Crucifixion.  It was such an amazing experience!

After the concert we bumped into some friends of ours, the Birds.

We took a walk around the building and admired the view of the city at night.  Thanks hubby for a wonderful date!!!  Here are some of the pictures I took during the evening...

Thanks for looking!!!

Ruby's Diner on Pacific Coast Highway

 

The sun set as we hopped in our car to grab some dinner and cruise along the Pacific coast Highway...

 

 

Nothing like a long exposure on the ebb and flow of the ocean...

  

Our destination was Ruby's Auto Diner, a sixties themed American Diner with great food and fun old-school decor.  We had a great time there for dinner, but everyone thought we were a bit weird for taking pictures of everything!  Enjoy the photo's!

An Afternoon on Balboa Island

What a beautiful place Newport beach is!  The afternoon was free time so we went off together to the much raved about Balboa Island, not really knowing what to expect, but it was fantastic!  We really enjoyed the walk around and saw some fun architecture and the sea air was so refreshing.  Spring was really out in full form with all the flowers blooming and new leaves budding...

 

(Here's just a few shots with our uber-cool fisheye lens!)

 

Just for a laugh I had to put this last pic in of the HORRENDOUS carpet in the conference room we used!  Good memories though!  I suppose it was cool once upon a time...