
Pixar Studios Tour – Inside Look at Pixar HQ
The Friday we arrived in the Bay Area, we went to visit the Pixar Animation Studios. Nick Pitera gave us a fantastic tour and more insight
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The Friday we arrived in the Bay Area, we went to visit the Pixar Animation Studios. Nick Pitera gave us a fantastic tour and more insight

During a weekend up in the bay area, we had the chance to dine at Lazy Bear SF due to a last minute cancellation. Lazy

For the month of September, we actually tried a lot of new food in LA. Our foodie friends were even in town one weekend, so

We don’t typically like visiting touristy spots more than once, but Griffith Observatory has some of the most incredible views of LA… so far that

Donut Man deserves a post of its own. I couldn’t just include it as one of the “Love it, I’m going to be a regular”

As soon as the cronut (the half croissant half donut) craze started, we were on the search for cronuts in Los Angeles. It all started

Yesterday was the first time that we went to the Conan show taping! First time to any show taping for that matter. It was a

We went to check out the LA County Fair over labor day weekend, one of many things to do in LA in the fall. Instead of
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