After our JPL tour, we just stayed on the north side of LA knocking out some fun dorm shopping at the "Big 3" (Costco, Target and IKEA) and meeting Anna and Derek for dinner!
The next day we reunited with Anna and Derek again on the south side of LA to show them around Ella's new digs. We found a Portillos right by Ella's school! These Chicagoans were so excited! So, now when we make the trek down to see Ella, I have a roast beef and cheddar croissant to look forward to also! ;) We think it's funny that our California girls will probably now learn to associate this iconic Chicago establishment more with LA than its city of origin!
Security is tight at Ella's school, which we do love. When we explained to the officer at the gate that she was a student moving in the next day, they let us in to take a walking tour of the beautiful campus with Anna and Derek. It was so fun to show them around and continue to get excited as we explored Ella's new home!
Anna and Derek guided us to the 2 nearest beaches-- Seal Beach and the famous Huntington Beach, both just a short drive away! We know lots of students from Ella's school spend their Saturdays at the beach. One of the many things that will have Ella living her best life in college, we predict!
We bid farewell to Anna and Derek (an easy thing to do when we know we'll be seeing them multiple times this year!) and got ready for the night's big outing! We love this goofy show called The Goes Wrong Show, where the premise is anything that can go wrong in a play performance hilariously does. I follow Mischief Comedy on social media and saw that their Broadway Peter Pan Goes Wrong show was moving to LA, perfectly timed with our visit, and I grabbed tickets immediately. Again, being a regular reader of this blog, you probably know and love this show as much as we do! ;)
So many funny signs to take pictures by! One our favorite parts of seeing this play was enjoying the original cast! We've come to know and love Chris, Robert, Dennis, Max, Trevor, and Annie so well, we are super fans! Seeing them was thrilling and the closest we've ever gotten to a real celebrity encounter! There was an actual famous person (Bradley Whitford) as the narrator and he was great, but we were there for the OG Cornley Youth Theater actors!
The Ahmanson Theater is a part of a fancy 3 venue plaza. Right next to it is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (former home of the Oscars) and the iconic Disney Concert Hall. It was fun to just walk around all these cool and famous places too!
Peter Pan Goes Wrong was AWESOME! We laughed non-stop! All our favorite parts from the movie unfolded in front of us, like the bunk beds collapsing, or the flying mechanism ripping all their costumes off, or Dennis messing up every line. But, seeing it live meant we could enjoy extra things too like: 20 minutes before the show started where the actors roamed around the stage and audience, "fixing" things and making mischief; or a playbill full of humor, like an ad for a Flying Operator desperately needed, and an In Memoriam for Nadia, the real Nile Crocodile who tragically died playing her part; or all the improv and audience participation during the the show. Another perfect outing before our big goodbye!
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