This and That

Hello Everyone,
I thought I would put a variety of things on here today to give some new information. I have been busy with work, as usual, and had a trip to Atlanta/Orlando a couple of weeks ago. It was a very quick and packed full trip, but good.
Some recent happenings here include a trip to downtown LA, where we walked around for the first time to see what is there. It was really interesting, with a lot of ethnic diversity. We had lunch at a Meditteranian restaurant. We also drove over to Beverly Hills and walked around Rodeo Drive. Last week we attended our first Hollywood party! I was invited to the Global Green USA Pre-Oscar Party at the Avalon in Hollywood. This is the one where they promote green living, and have the green carpet instead of the red carpet. There were celebrities there, but we didn't mingle with them. It was still pretty cool, though.
Here are some recent photos of a variety of things:

This is one of the houses we recently completed at Habitat. This one is in south central LA.

This is part of the Vermont build site which was one of the two Jimmy Carter Work Project sites. This one consists of 3 townhome condo buildings. Two of the buildings are triplexes and one is an eight-plex, for a total of 14 units. You can see the solar panels on the roof, and the KABOOM playground in the central tot lot.

This is part of the San Pedro JCWP site. This one consists of 8 duplex townhome buildings for a total of 16 units. These are built in the "California Craftsman" style. The whole site sits on a hill overlooking the port of LA.

This is a shot down part of Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. We didn't even feel comfortable going inside the shops on this street. Wow!

And here is a Ferrari parked on the curb at Rodeo. You name the luxury car and we saw it that day.

Switching gears (no pun intended), we decided to hang a hummingbird feeder out our front window after seeing a few of them in the flowers. We now need to install an air traffic control tower to accomodate incoming and outgoing flights, and ensure everyone's safety. They come in droves everyday, and empty the feeder in 2 days flat. Sorry for the security bars in the shot, but this is LA after all.

As we drove toward downtown, Laurie snapped this shot of the snow-capped San Gabriel mountains. We can see the mountains from all over the area while driving. The mountains start at the ocean up north of Malibu, run east and just north of LA, then curve south and run down toward Mexico. So, we are ringed on two sides by ocean (west and south), and two sides by mountains (north and east). It's a beautiful place.

Another shot of downtown snapped as we rolled down the 110 freeway. These are the only tall buildings in all of Los Angeles.

Well, more to come. Stay tuned. Now, were off to my bosses husbands 50th birthday. It is at the Los Alamitos Race Track, where we are promised food, casino games, motown sounds and a horse race named after the birthday boy! It's like a Chuck E. Cheese birthday party for adults!