Saturday, September 08, 2007

Labor Day in Glendale

We flew down to LA and spent a great Labor Day weekend in Glendale with Ryan, Amy, Andrea, and Bentley.

On Saturday Ryan gave us a tour of the DreamWorks Animation campus where he works. It's fantastic! The architecture reminds me of the Stanford Campus.

That afternoon we drove down to Newport Beach then caught the LA Galaxy/Real Salt Lake match. It's the first pro soccer game we'd been to. I couldn't believe that (1) they have their own stadium and (2) it was nearly sold out. I didn't think soccer was popular in America. We didn't get to see David Beckham play because he had sprained his knee the previous week, but it was still a good match.

Andrea drove down from Santa Barbara on Saturday night so on Sunday the five of us drove to Salt Creek Beach. It's a great beach (and happens to be where we got engaged). We played in the surf and laid in the sun.

We flew back to Boise on Monday night and have been enjoying the cooler weather here since then.



















This is the patio outside the DreamWorks cafeteria. There are koi over a foot long in their lake and the man-made river that flows into it.



















There was plenty of marketing material up for the movie Ryan recently finished, Bee Movie. He's now working on Madagascar 2 for a while before he starts on Monsters versus Aliens.















Here's Ryan's office. We got some sneak previews from Bee Movie and Madagascar 2.















Here's the Galaxy game at the Home Depot Center. Ryan got us great seats!















A rogue wave took out our first spot on the beach. Alas, it was Davey Jones's locker for Stephanie's cell phone.















Toned and tanned