My Birthday

Happy Birthday to Me!

Hubby was not able to take the day off work this year; so I had a fun girls day out with my girls.  We slept in, went to have tea and lunch at The Tea Gardens, then got our nails done at Beth' Nails.  It's been 11 years almost to the date since I had my nails done for my wedding day.  I am way past due!  Later, I took my daughter to her swim lesson then caught up with hubby and my parents to a dinner at Macaroni Grill.  I have never had such bad service in a restaurant as we had here.  There were only about 5 tables seated in the whole place and the waiter was absent the whole time.  He couldn't get anything right and gave us the wrong food.  Because of the terrible experience we did get our salads free and free desserts.

 

 

 

 

 

Father's Day at Pacific Park

Happy Father's Day! 

Today, we celebrated by going to our usual breakfast spot with hubby's parents at Millies in Granada Hills.  I got my usual California avocado omelet with hash browns and a biscuit with gravy.  My oldest was especially excited to go out to breakfast just so that she could have bacon.

My picky eater recently decided to try bacon and is in love. 

I never cook bacon, so it was a treat for her to have some today.

 

After a full belly, we headed over to the Santa Monica Pier so the girls could ride the rides at Pacific Park.  I had bought a Groupon for unlimited rides for them. They enjoyed a couple fun hours here riding about 7 or 8 rides twice.   I read they were giving free basketball shots to dad's in honor of Father's Day.  Hubby is not into basketball; so we did not take advantage of the free try.

 

After a visit to Santa Monica, we went to my parent's house for a chicken and steak BBQ and called it a day.

 

AAA Member Magic Mountain Night

It was the last day of school today and decided to surprise the girls to a treat at Magic Mountain.  They  have a private event annually for AAA members to enjoy the park all day with the public or members only from 6:00pm-12:00am at a discounted rate.  We told the girls we were going to the store to get something that was on sale for that day.  While driving there, they had their faces in books and didn't even notice where we were going.  My oldest noticed that we were at Magic Mountain; but didn't say anything cuz she thought we were just passing it by to get to the store.  There was silence as we entered the park.  This was not the reaction we thought we would get. We had to stop and park before they started squealing about being there. 

My youngest is much taller than the last time we were here a couple years ago, so we had fun getting on more rides.  The last ride of the night we went on was Roaring Rapids at about 10:00pm.  We got soaked!  It was still about 80 degrees out; so we were not freezing, just uncomfortably wet.

 We got on a couple more rides, grabbed a funnel cake and went home.  There is still debate on which is the better funnel cake.  Is it plain with powdered sugar or with strawberries added on top?  We ordered strawberries on half of it because that's what hubby thought was better.  It turned out that he was the only one who like it.  The 3 of us split the other plain half.

Where hubby and I first met and used to work.

.50 Ice Cream - Burger King

 Now through August 5th, Burger King locations are selling Soft Serve Ice Cream Cones for only $0.50. No coupon necessary!

Street Food Cinema - Stand By Me & Corey Feldman

For date night, I found Street Food Cinema on Goldstar.com.  When I saw they were showing Stand By Me, I had to buy tickets since this is one of mine and hubby's favorites movies.  The featured band entertainment was Corey Feldman.  We got to Exposition Park and waited in the fast moving line about an hour after they started letting people in.  The place was packed with 2,000 people; but we managed to find a decent spot a short distance from the VIP section.

 The only grip I had about the spot we picked was that there was a tree branch blocking the top part of the screen.  It ended up being tolerable once the movie had started.

Our view with a tree branch obstruction

There were food trucks of all kinds, most with long lines except for the organic truck.  I guess there were not a lot of healthy eaters in the crowd that night.  Hubby and I were going to share a meal from one of the Korean BBQ trucks; but the line never moved after standing there for 15 min.  Another popular truck was the Grilled Cheese.  Someone in front of us got one of those sandwiches and it didn't look like anything I couldn't make at home; but I'm sure there was something unique about it.  The 76 gasoline booth was giving out free coffee which was an added bonus for hubby.

 

Everything ran later than planned; so the movie didn't start until 9:00-9:30.  This was our first time at Street Food Cinema and we enjoyed it. Well, we enjoyed the movie, not so much Corey Feldman's singing. That was pretty terrible. It was more entertaining to hear him being insulted by the crowd.  It was a good, fun crowd that helped make the movie enjoyable.

Next movie is Risky Business on June 1st!

Some tips for a fun frugal time at Street Food Cinema are...
Look for comp tickets found on Goldstar.com.  Two people can get in for $7 by paying just service fees.

Forget about paying $10 to park on site and find meter parking across the street.  Parking is free on the street after 8:00pm.

Bring your own food and have a picnic on the grass.

Fluffy - First Pet

 

The girls got their first real pet besides a goldfish from a friend who was giving away some rabbits.  She is a lionhead rabbit with so much fur, you can barely see her eyes.  The girls named her Fluffy and are so excited to have her.  She's about one year's old, is very gentle and sweet, and loves to play outside.

 

 

.49 Slurpee - Memorial Day Weekend

7-Eleven

.49 Medium Slurpee Drink

 Fri, May 24th - Mon, May 27th