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Empire of the Sun turned the Hollywood Bowl into a gigantic dance party.
Empire of the Sun closing out the best show of theirs I have seen yet! (And I’ve seen A LOT)
St. Lucia putting on an amazing opening act at the Hollywood Bowl.
It has come to my attention that I have started treating the Hollywood Bowl as my living room. Guess who’s back, back again…
These people believe in flying their patriotic Pomeranian flag year round.
Things get real when this reminder is staring back at you from the pages of your planner every day.
Do we call this bad lighting or “artsy”? Regardless, here is the grin I get from Puggle when I come home from work every day.
Martial Arts Trilogy at the Hollywood Bowl – a viewing of portions of Hero, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Banquet conducted by the composer himself, Tan Dun. It was pretty epic.
There is nothing I love more than a great summer concert under the stars and this past week we had the pleasure of attending not one, not two, but THREE different shows at the Hollywood Bowl. The greatest part of the summer concert series at the Bowl is that you get to bring in your own food and drinks and have a picnic while you’re listening to music. Since the shows all started at 8:00 PM and I don’t usually get home from work until around 6:30, I knew there would not be time on the evenings of for food prep and that I’d need to prepare our meals ahead of time so we could grab them out of the fridge and go.
We don’t frequently have picnics (but we might more often because it was so fun!) and I admittedly got really into meal planning. My fiance had been on the road for work in the days prior and I wanted our first evenings back together to be special and full of yummy food and wonderful music! So without further ado, here is what I made for our picnic dinners last week.
Picnic number one for John Fogerty – pasta salad, fresh blueberries and Pranqster.
Picnic number two for Beethoven – smoked salmon, sea salt crackers, olives, cucumber and blueberries, Toblerone, and wine.
Picnic number three for David Gray and Amos Lee – roasted bacon and potato salad.
Do you guys have any go-to dishes for picnics? We have a few more concerts coming up this summer and I would love some new ideas!
The contents of an IKEA wardrobe successfully fit (sort of..) into my hatchback.
Wardrobe lining
Puggle in her royal headwear (aka a piece of her Dad’s Canon)
It was seriously stormy in LA. My hair lost the good fight.
The one moment of stillness we had the entire weekend.
David Gray and Amos Lee closing our our third night of the week at the Hollywood Bowl.
Puggle looking like she is chatting away to me.
Hollywood Bowl picnic for John Fogerty.
Fire for John Fogerty
Earrings that belonged to my grandma.
Smoked salmon for Beethoven
Beethoven at dusk at the Hollywood Bowl…you can just see the Hollywood sign peeking over the hills in the background.