College Trips 2019 (Catch up)

Okay I'm trying to catch up here, so I had to go back to Spring Break for the New York-Los Angeles college tour! For some reason I only have 1 pic from NYC. We toured NYU and stayed at the Washington Square Hotel, which was amazing, ate some great food in the neighborhood, and saw Hamilton. There was this funny moment in the restaurant before Hamilton where we all went to the restroom, and this older lady who'd been dancing at her table earlier started talking to the boys about life. I ended up in tears and it was very surreal, but for the life of me I can't remember the specifics of what she said...though it did involve f-bombs. Something about Dean and me letting them grow up without micromanaging them, that they were going to be fine. Anyhoo, this was the week after Pride Week apparently...as we discovered on our neighborhood walks:


Then we flew to LA to tour USC. We drove around some iconic spots...





and stayed at the coolest hotel, the Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood, that had the loveliest property with hidden paths and lots of villas.





Okay, this is from the epic bicycle tour we took around LA on electric bikes, and this was a famous house but I forget the name:











I believe this was Lucille Ball's house...or somebody famous....in Beverly Hills now:





And this is in Venice Beach where we stopped for lunch on the beach before making our way back.


They have the coolest trees in LA.


And this is the hotel pool. Apparently lots of musicians stayed here because there's an underground recording studio, so there are lots of photos and memorabilia of them:


This was the path to our villa with a huge ad across the street - we stayed right off the Sunset Strip.


Random shot of USC - beautiful campus!


And we got to go into the recording studio's lobby, but people were actually recording, so they just gave us a coffee mug, Tshirt, and quick speech about who all had recorded there (Lucas knew the names, I did not, but I did later learn that Duran Duran had done something there!). I thought this was a plain black mug until Drew pointed out that it changed colors when hot liquid was added - voila!


And walking around LA we encountered this in a clothing store window on Rodeo Drive - funny.


I have no recollection of a plane where they let the boys take over the cockpit, but apparently it happened.


Needs further investigation.


And Lucas ended up getting accepted to Belmont in Nashville, but this was an awesome family trip anyway!!!