sheep in the city

Have Clapotis, will travel- Part 2

Day 3: The day was finally here...the wedding day, you ask? Nope...the day that I get to meet some L.A. knit bloggers! My mom and RayLynn had planned on going with me, but at the last minute they decided to stay at the hotel because they didn't want to spend any more time in the car after the 5 hours of the day before. La was one of the girls that I was meeting up with and amazingly enough, she lived within 10 minutes of the hotel. So, my parents dropped me off (I have to say my mom had one of those mom moments, where she wasn't sure about me getting into a car with a total stranger that I had met on the internet, ha!) and away we went. It was an adventure getting there, and I got a lovely commentary on the buildings we passed along the way. But my favorite moment was when the traffice slowed down and a motorcycle cop drove by...and was it a terrible accident? Nope. The cops were scooping hay off the highway because a huge truck had dumped a bunch of it off the truck. It was priceless seeing those cops in there little Chips uniforms with huge shovels. Again, only in L.A.
So, our first stop was La Knitterie Parisian, which some of you might know as the home of Knit One, Purl Two. The shop is owned by Edith Eig (the host of said show), and bot do they have a ton of yarn!! Great stuff that you don't see at every other knit shop. I managed to stop myself from buying a really cute WoolyBully bag...they are so cute though! I tidge on the expensive side though. I did get some discontinued Noro Kuereyon.

Here we all are at Jerry's Famous Diner... Lauren, La, and Jen put together this little shindig. From left to right, Lauren, La, Jen, me, Lori, Allison, MJ, and Kris. Looks fun, huh? It was!

It was great to meet some of the people behind the blogs that I read. At one point we started talking about the projects we were working on, and Lori busted out her Rebecca and Phildar magazines. It was like a feeding frenzy, we all jumped all over those magazines immediately. It's not everyday that you get to see them in person...drool much?

I just had to take this picture...this is Lauren and Lori standing next to each other. Lauren is 4 foot something (sorry, I can't remember) and I think that Lori is like 6'3" or so. Wow. :-)

I got back from lunch just in the nick of time to change for the wedding, which was such a beautiful service and I'm so glad that I was able to go out there for it. This shot is one of my favorites...this is the groom Brian and I. Awww. What a cool guy.

The reception was one of the biggest that I have ever been to. There were 50 tables and probably around 400 guests! The cool thing was that alot of my friends were able to make it.

It was really fun seeing and catching up with old friends and meeting Brian's wife Dana. Bonus that they had a chocolate fountain. Have you ever seen one...oh my goodness...it is amazing, imagine liquid chocolate that you can put on Rice Crispie squares, pineapple, pretzels, strawberries, or marshmallows. Mmmm...it was a good thing.

I know what you are thinking, "where was the Clapotis in all of this?" In my purse, ready at any moment to be pulled out and worked on...but it just didn't happen that much today. I made up for it the next day though! I'm getting too tired to post anymore tonight, it's 11:15 PM and I need to go to bed...I'm getting old. Ugh. So tomorrow I'll conclude the stories of my travels...for now it's bedtime.

Posted by Stacey at March 19, 2005 11:15 PM