Levi and I celebrated our one-year wedding anniversary two weeks ago. We spent the day in LA doing a few of our favorite things.
Our day started with the drive to LA... obviously. Levi had put together a special playlist to listen to on the way, full of "our songs."
While in the car, we played the read-all-the-fake-names-on-the-sample-stationery-in-the-paper-source-catalogue game. For some reason, that always cracks me up. Sometimes, I'm very easily amused.
Our first stop was the Abbot Kinney Intelligentsia for macchiatos and pistachio lemon cake.
I always feel like such a dork taking photos in there because it's always so full of hipsters. Highlight of our Intelligentsia stop: seeing Kevin's mom from Wonder Years. I recognized her in an instant!
After breakfast, we wandered in and out of shops on Abbot Kinney.
They have some really awesome shops. We had so much fun looking at books, baby stuff for Wolfie, stationery, Swedish stuff, and vintage furniture. I love window shopping... almost as much as real shopping.
By the time we were done looking in shops, we were both starving, so we headed to our next stop: Beverly Hills. We had to pick up some macarons. Of course! We saved them for later and ate at a really yummy pizza place on Beverly. Then we browsed the newsstand and peeked in Anthropologie.
(That's Levi demonstrating that he can walk with a bag in his hand without swinging it. I never let him hold bags of fragile food because he's a notorious arm swinger.)
Next on the agenda was a movie at the Landmark. We had been dying to see Carnage, but our Fandango tickets didn't work for the Landmark, and I didn't want to spend the money, so we ended up laying around on some benches in the lobby for awhile instead. Levi ran to the bathroom, leaving me on the bench, browsing through books on my Amazon app. It's funny how many strangers want to come up and chat with you when you're lounging on a bench.
When Levi came back, a man walked by and said we were "art directed within an inch of our lives" and that he needed to take a picture. Haha!
Since our movie plans were delayed (we ended up seeing the movie later in the week - it was so good. I highly recommend it.), we were at a loss for what to do with ourselves, so we headed over to Culver City for a snack. We went to L'Epicerie Market and feasted on a very strange and random snack of baguette, coffee, bananas, and the best roasted potatoes in the world.
By the time we finished, it was dark. I still didn't really want to go home so we headed back to Abbot Kinney and ended up meeting a really nice man named Reggie. He was living through a really difficult time so we chatted with him for awhile. When we parted ways, I hugged him. That's how awesome Reggie was.
We couldn't think of anything else to do, so we just headed home. It was kinda cool that the only thing we did on our second Abbot Kinney stop was chat with a man named Reggie. I thought it was a good way to end our anniversary. :)
What a wonderful day you had! Happy anniversary!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a load of fun. You guys are the best at eating treats. Everything looks delicious.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great anniversary, Jasmine! 'lette, intelligentsia, and abbott kinney... Seriously, GREAT DATE!
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary! Looks like a spectacular day!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary! Looks like a spectacular day!!
ReplyDeleteyou guys are just cool.
ReplyDeleteCongrats, you two! Didn't even realize your marriage was so fresh!
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