As for hiking, LA Mountains is a great site that outlines all of the hiking areas in the (surprise) LA Mountains.

No, no, no ... you miss my point. (And it's not even mine, but one I am relaying for someone who has no internet access at the moment).

In rougly six pages of ideas, most of them intriguing and worthwhile, the suggestions are heavy on museums and out-of-town trips. Let's face it: Out-of-town swankings will be hard to pull off ... and I expect, in the end, for there to be few or one of them.

I'm just passing on a request to vary the types of activities when the eventual selections are made from the genuinely good ideas contributed thus far, and in the future.

But no obligation is being pressed on anyone to do or plan anything. Nothing of the sort.

As for restaurants - peruse here.

Well, this is a group effort. If Mr. "has no internet" wants to relay a message about some ideas, please have him do that. There are PLENTY of fun, local things to do. Too many to ever do in a mere 6+ events.

Just a handy re-cap:

Local
Museums and Exhibits
Magritte exhibition at LACMA (and perhaps the Tar Pits)
Getty Malibu
Getty 405
Norton Simon (and the Gamble House)
OC Museum of Art - Birth of the Cool exhibit (September)

Misc.
Eat/Drink at Social in Hollywood
Downtown tour
Greystone Mansion picnic
Sea World
Price is Right taping
Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Hollywood (2)
Celebrity Cemeteries
Local Hikes
Pirates of the Caribbean Sets
RHPS at Queen Mary


Out of Town
Hearst Castle / Big Sur and other central coast things
Winchester Mystery House (San Jose)
Egyptian Museum (San Jose)
LoTs Vegas
Camping
Epcot's Silver Anniversary in October
D.C. for the cherry blossoms, American Indian Museum ... oh and a dozen other fantastic museums and places of national historic interest and awe

If I can get my hands on a video projector that is powerfull enough, and at a price that doesn't send me in to cardiac arrest, Bill and I would love to host some outdoor movie screenings in our back yard this summer.

Oh and here's another place I want to go to: The Edison

I wanna go to Beach Blanket Babylon again - I really need to see who they're ripping into now. :D

I wanna go to bed

I wanna be sedated