LA Weekend

This weekend we went to LA for Marc's cousin Joel's wedding. We had a little free time to do some CA exploring. I loved this gorgeous hotel in Santa Monica (the only place around L.A. that was actually nice). That's my opinion.

Here we are in Santa Monica again. We had lunch and then took a little walk to the beach. Marc's Mom, bro, Marc et moi.
The bride and groom are big fans of Celtic music. As a surprise to the bride, her parents booked Bad Haggis, a Celtic band. The bag piper recorded the music for Braveheart, Titanic and lots of other movies. At the end of the reception I requested the theme from Braveheart and he played it! Wine+theme from Braveheart performed by actual recording piper=hysteria and maybe a few tears. Post script: Can you see the excitement in our eyes because we got to take our picture with him? Do you see any excitement in his eyes? NO. He was not interested in hanging out with us...too cool. :( Aunt Nancy, moi, Eric Rigler, Cousin Amanda, Carla

And here we are on Venice Beach. What a freak show, and also very smoggy. The bloody marys we enjoyed at lunch, however, were delicious!