Holiday "Stay-Cation"

Jei, Momma Soch and I didn't have much planned for Memorial Day... so we decided to head up to L.A. and visit with the girls!  For future services rendered (hang curtains & hook up TV), Helen was kind enough to treat the three of us to an absolute fabulous lunch!  She took us down to Beverly Hills where we had a little taste of Brazil at Fogo de Chao.  It's pretty much an all-you-can-eat Brazilian steakhouse Gaucho style... where everyone is given a circular card, and if you want the servers to keep slicing off little pieces of heaven onto your plate throughout your meal, you flip your card to the green side... and if you're about to throw-up Filet Mignon all over yourself because you ate too much and want the servers to stop, you flip it over to the red side!  It was quite the experience and highly recommend stopping by if you ever get the chance!   

After a magnificent lunch (thanks Helen!), we had some time to kill before our afternoon matinee at the California Science Center in downtown L.A.... so we decided to push our way through the line of five-year-old's and explored all the wonder the Science Center had to offer!         

Definitely one of the highlights was the really cool kelp bed aquarium! 

After visiting the ocean... 

we hitched a ride on a camel and suddenly found ourselves in Egypt!!!

Queen 'Cleo-Sochi' riding her favorite camel heading back to her palace of gold!

Our camel ended up buckin' Jei clean off... 

so I had to take control and rode that thing for 8 seconds straight!

Sochi got lost... but then to everyone's amazement, 

she found herself at the footsteps of the Great Pyramid of Giza!

(Yes, I know... we're huge dorks, but at least we're fun dorks!)

We finally got back from "Egypt" when we thought, "You know... we had a little taste of Brazil, the Ocean, and Egypt today... why not end the day with a little Outer-Space too?!?!"  So we walked over to the IMAX theater and saw HUBBLE 3D... which was freaking amazing!!!   

(Click HERE to see the official trailer!)

Definitely not a super exciting weekend... but certainly nothing wrong with the occasional "stay-cation" every now and then.  Besides, I think we made the best of it and had a really good time with family!