an evening in manhattan beach

when we found out our favorite pizza place, grimaldi's, opened in el segundo we just had to go down and check it out. i didn't get a picture of the pizza, i just wanted to enjoy my meal, but it was delicious. after dinner we drove down to the manhattan beach pier and watched the sunset. it was so perfect. we walked through the little aquarium at the end of the pier and then got some ice cream at cute little dessert place up the street. it was a fantastic day. a perfect california spring night!

our foreign friends

tyler's mission companion, his sister, her husband and her sister-in-law came to visit us in vegas all the way from france and greece! first off, they all had amazing accents. why couldn't i have been from some exotic place? i would be SO much cooler! we took them to grimaldi's for pizza, down to the strip and to the hoover damn the next morning before they headed to the grand canyon. they spent 3 weeks touring the united states and i am super jealous. they've seen more of my country in 3 weeks than i have in 26 years! i need to get on it! also, tyler and i have decided that we have to go to europe now. for reals.