Saturday, May 9, 2009

Into the Belly of the Beast

Los Angeles, The Pros
Museums, diversity - economic and cultural, world-class music and theatre, ethic food, extended family.

Los Angeles, The Cons
Smog, people, people and more people all equating to too many cars, and the ultimate deterrent -- traffic.

Every parent fears being stuck in traffic with two small children. In L.A. I feel as if this is a daily, if not hourly risk regardless of the day of the week or time.

Today after a relentless drive -- where we hit traffic on the 101, 134, 5 and 10 freeways -- we finally made it to a dinner.

Dinner -- real Chinese food in Monterey Park -- was good. It was nice to see everyone. We tried to get a picture with all the little ones in the family.

This was the best one we took -- and, yes, presently we all have girls.

5 comments:

Song said...

You forgot two additional cons: Dodgers and Lakers.

Becky said...

That's what happens when you marry a guy from the Bay Area...

Kate said...

Wow..that is a lot of girls! Great pic!

miyo b. said...

great picture of all the cousins!

dana said...

I man, I can relate to this in so many ways. I had a dr appt in Beverly Hills the other day (ugh) and we spent about 4 hours total driving all over LA. Thankfully my husband came along and thankfully we had our DVD player. But NO ONE was driving fast enough the entire day!
Glad you had a nice day afterall though.