We visited the Los Angeles Temple a couple of weekends ago. It was a beautiful, windy, day. Perfect Southern California weather. The youth were doing baptisms that day and since Joey was going, we decided to take the whole family and I got to go too before Joey had to go in with the youth. The girls enjoyed the temple grounds. I love the LA Temple. I love how it looks out over the busy city and is so massive. I was so grateful that we went, even though we almost didn't. It seems to be the way with temple trips. Abby had a bit of a cold and was coughing a lot. We didn't decide to go for sure until that morning. I am always glad when we just forget everything else and go. I never regret a trip to the temple.
While Joey was in the Temple with the girls and it was getting a bit too windy on the temple grounds, I drove the girls up the street through Beverly Hills and to Greystone Mansion. The grounds are open to the public and the girls had fun climbing staircases and roaming the grounds. We stopped at a pond on the property and were entertained for about 20 minutes just watching the turtles trying to kick each other off the rocks. There were huge koi fish too that the girls had fun identifying and keeping their eyes on their favorites swimming around the pond. I completely wore myself out but wasn't really any worse off. Which was a good thing for me. We drove back to the temple and picked Joey up and then headed to dinner in Westwood where we just barely missed the premiere to the "Lego Movie." We had no idea it was going on and were surprised by the red carpet and a whole block of street was blocked off. It was still exciting to see it all set up, even if we had just missed all the movie stars. I hope that we take more trips like this together. I love hanging out with these people :)
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