The Pre-China Bucket List.

A month from today, we'll be in China.

It's unreal.

So, besides the boring packing/selling/storage of our stuff that has to happen in the next two weeks (oh, and you know, getting our visas and important things like that), we have lots on our bucket list and no days to spare.

The Abbreviated List:

kayaking in the Back Bay (again)

Disneyland (although there's always one in Hong Kong if we don't make the original)

homemade salted caramel ice cream

beach camping at San Onofre

brunch at Plum's

dinner at Bouchon (or at least some extra-large macarons from their Bakery)

sushi at Nanasan and/or Sugarfish

the drive-in movie theater

the truffle burger at Umami Burger

Pizza Port

bonfire at CDM

walking food tour of Laguna Beach

sunset happy hour at K'ya's rooftop lounge

Drybar/Manhattan Beach

Yo-Yo Ma at the Hollywood Bowl

And a couple things we've checked off:

times moves too quickly, but we plan on maxing out our California time while we can.

the hoffmans.

we love the hoffmans. they're one of the coolest couples we know. steph & zach introduced us to bananagrams and cafe rio, and they are always game for hanging out, even when the activity is watching one of dave's notoriously and unintentionally awkward movie picks.

so when it came time to take christmas card pictures, we made a double date out of it. we took our cameras to a little place off the 133 and took turns taking pictures for each other. these are a few of my favorite snaps from the sesh.