Celebrate Andrea: Day One

How do you make sure you get your proper yearly "me-day" when your birthday is the day after valentine's day?

How about when valentine's day is on a Monday and your birthday is on a Tuesday?

You get a little partying the weekend before and a little the weekend after, of course!

So this year we kicked off Andrea-fest with breaking her out of jail early (truth be told, she has half day every Friday at work, so this wasn't that big of a deal). BUT, when she finally made her way out she had a little surprise waiting for her in the car, A PRESENT!!

The little photographer already has a 4-lens camera and has taken such photos as:

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and

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She also found an app on the Android Market (ohhh, fancy!) for her new phone that lets her take lamography-like pictures such as:

!!!!!

So that's all nice and fancy, but what's a camera with out something to take a picture of? So off we went, and aided by Andrea's phone (thank you google maps!!!!) we avoided the horrendous (and compleatly normal) LA traffic on the freeway and Santa Monica Boulevard and instead took a detour along Sunset.

And FINALLY we made it to our very picturesque destination: the Griffiths Observatory!

As you can see it's got some great views, and I definitely recommend stopping by if you have the chance.

After the observatory we started our journey back and went by Amoeba Records, and just HAD to stop in (how could we not when this is what the outside looked like?).

I hate to say it and I'm sure they hate to hear it, but with how cheap and easy it is to get music online and a Netflix account it was not very much fun to peruse the merchandise. WITH THE EXCEPTIONS of the awesome posters they had (if they weren't so expensive I'm sure we would have left with a few), and they did have some cool collectors albums/magazines/junk, and even this little beauty:

After that little experience we headed off once again, this time toward the Volcom shop where I got a jacket and Andrea a shirt that we'd end up wearing on Day Two of our celebration.

NEW PHONE

I've finally joined the rest of the 21st century and got a smart phone!  I decided to go droid, though I thought long and hard about getting an iPhone and didn't know how I'd like what I got, I love it.  Granted I'm coming from a flip phone with a cracked camera that couldn't save the crappy pictures it could take to the micro SD that didn't work..... but yeah.  So far my favorite apps/games are the fx camera (which includes toycam, poloroid, fisheye, symmetricam, and Warhol settings), alchemy, angry birds, google maps, and this app that converts mp3s to ringtones, but I'm currently taking suggestions.