Part of the reason I wanted to fly into LA and spend a couple days was to visit with family (brother and sister in law) and friends (my oldest friend moved last year to LA with her then fiance'). I have known Peggy since shortly after my parents moved the family from Florida to Ohio. We have remained close and in touch. I was sad to eventually lose touch with my Florida friends, but at 11 years old, shouldn't be too surprising.
Peg is a kindergarden teacher and she and her husband live literately 10 minutes from where we were staying at chez Meg/Uncle K.
As an indoor activity to escape the heat and really the smog, Peg suggested a museum in Pasedena called Kidspace. It's a small place, but has some neat kid activities, including a large indoor space for kids Eddie's age to frolic. He had a good time, and if we could have found this inflatable globe to purchase, he would have been the proud owner. In it's place Peg got him an inflatable globe with political boundaries instead of a satellite image, which he enjoyed while in Santa Barbara.
To give you an idea of how ill I was feeling, I didn't even get a picture of me and Peg or anything. Her husband Derek, snapped this nice one of us though.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention the little task Peg gave me. She loaned me a book, called the Fabulous Traveling Funeral of Annie G. Freeman. I was to read the book and then select the places I would send my friends on my traveling funeral and make a scrapbook spread illustrating them. She made a list of people and I was to send the book to the next person within a month. Hard not to love the idea--and I liked the thought of having an excuse to read a book that did not deal with toddler behavoir. This is not typically a book I would have selected, but I did manage to knock it out...now to select places that would give insight to my life and do the scrapbook pages.
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