Time keeps getting away from me! We got back from our adventures in Sacramento, and it was on to the next thing it seemed, with no stops. We did manage to fit in a few adventures, and the topper was last Friday when we went to the newly renovated Griffith Park Observatory. It was closed for five years, during which time they added a new west entrance, re-landscaped, and added a new dome to the Planetarium. The last time I was there I was too little to remember it very clearly, but Chuck had been not long before they closed and really noticed the changes. The exterior is the same distinctive building people remember from Rebel Without a Cause and other films (Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, anyone?), but it’s been thoroughly cleaned.

I loved the Planetarium show (Chuck did too, but the new super comfy seats caused him to sleep through a chunk of it). We got up there around 6pm after catching the shuttle down at the L.A. Zoo parking lot (no driving up to the observatory anymore – at least for a while) and spent a good deal of time standing in line – for tickets to the Planetarium show, then in another line to get into the Planetarium show – but still enjoyed it. I’d like to go back during the week (versus a Friday night) and spend more time with fewer crowds to see more of the exhibits. Pics of our observatory visit are here.

After seeing the observatory, we went with our friend Sumalee to a Thai restaurant in Hollywood called Palms Thai. They had live symbols for facebook” title=”music symbols for facebook”>music in the form of a Thai Elvis (in full Las Vegas era Elvis attire). That guy could really sing! Although apparently everyone in the restaurant was slightly deaf so the volume was this side of eardrum-bursting. Still, we had a lot of fun and ate WAY too much Thai food. My fave: the Coconut Soup. Yum!

Chuck spent the weekend battling a chest cold, which he may have caught from me, as I am at the tail end of a cold I caught before we left for the conference the week before. No rest (or at least not much) as we had to fly up to Scaramento for a meeting on Tuesday. We dropped Adam the Gorilla off at his new home on the way, but before he left we took more photos of his adventures at our house. So that monkey’s off our backs. 😉

We ran a 10K yesterday morning here in Long Beach (with Chuck stopping periodically and coughing to hoick up big snot chunks) then went over to our friends’ house for turkey and all the fixings. Yum!

So there you go, the week in review.