Talk of New Year’s Eve plans are in the air, and the thing I keep hearing is that everyone wants to get out of town for their end of year break. Let’s face it, we’re obligated to spend all the other winter holidays with our family, but New Year’s is our one chance to get away from it all before the start of another year’s grind. So, let’s talk about New Year’s Eve plans that don’t include another awkward party, funny hats, and more confetti. Instead, I offer you the top 5 places out of LA to plan an intimate gathering– because as everyone knows, when your New Year’s get-together is also a getaway, things are bound to get a lot more interesting…
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What a year it has been. We did a lot, you did a lot, and we are so happy we all spent this time together in Los Angeles. How wonderful! This said, we kept an eye on our 2012 resolutions and we can’t help but wonder if we actually met them. Did we? We wanted to take a few minutes to see how we did so we know what our 2013 resolutions will be. Let’s investigate…
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This is it: we’ve reached the end. Today the world will come to a close. It sure was fun meeting all you nice people! Thanks for the good times. But–Wait!–how can we allow ourselves to go this easily? We can’t! There’s so much to do before the world ends!!! Because you probably won’t be able to zoom around the world to see all the sites you wanted to see, start at home and do a few things in Los Angeles that you’ve never done. Here is a list of things to do before the world ends and as the world ends that will make your last day in Los Angeles a special one. See you on the other side!
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Ahh, it’s that final rush before Christmas day and everyone is squeezing out every last drop of 2012 so that they can take the next week or two just to relax and prepare for 2013. Some of us are going to have to prepare for even more: visitors. Be it family or old friends, you may be readying for an onslaught of out-of-towners, many of whom have never been to Los Angeles. Sounds easy enough, right? Wrong. You may think that you have everything planned out and that you know where people are going to want to go but people will inevitably be overwhelmed by the city and how weird Los Angeles can be. I remember when the first time my father visited me out here, he had a near panic attack in a Santa Monica parking structure because he couldn’t believe that we didn’t have to pay for parking. Moreover, taking two suburban Starbucks lovers to the Silver Lake Intelligentsia was an awful, intimidating thing to do. A dinner at Son of a Gun turned into a near disaster after the price-to-size ratio was so skewed that no out-of-towners wanted to eat despite their not paying the bill. These normal things, things you don’t really think as “extreme” can be quire scary for parents and the like. Where should you take them then? We thought of a few suggestions from our experience that may help certain visitors you have coming. Here’s to an easy visit!
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