Adventures with Sissy!

My little sister and best friend came to stay with us for 10 days and we had so much fun!  She is such a California girl and got me excited to do all these California things I take for granted.  We tanned at the beach (a.k.a I covered myself from head to toe in sunscreen, a hat and a blanket while she laid out and put oil all over herself), ate at super healthy, overpriced cafe's, shopped until we both ran out of money, made homemade banana ice-cream (best banana ice-cream we've ever had!), went to In-N-Out so sissy could get a t-shirt, star-gazed at the Griffith Observatory, drove by enormous houses in Beverly Hills (museums?) and all the designer boutiques (you know the kind with only one of everything where they serve you champagne while you shop?) until we were too depressed to care anymore, went home and cheered ourselves up by painting our nails and doing facials and stayed up late most nights watching crazy weird documentaries about conjoined twins, the heaviest person in the world (650 pounds), the tiniest person in the world (5 pounds), people addicted to eating french fries and pizza and CORN STARCH, and pretty soon we were feeling pretty great about ourselves!

My little sister is one of the coolest people I know.  She's a vegetarian (I wish I had the strength), an amazing photographer, has the coolest style, and isn't even into boys!  She is way cooler than I was at 16 (and let's be real, than I am now haha).  She is so mature and smart and cool and just so interesting!  I guess she lives in practically a different world than the one I grew up in though.  When I was 16 I got my first cell phone (my dad's old one) and all it did was call people.  Useless.  Steph could care less about boy bands (are there any?), glittering her eyes (does anyone else remember Bath & Body Works body glitter?!), and boy scoping at the mall (who even talks to their crushes anymore when they can text, tweet, facebook message, and "♥" them?)  Yup, it's a different world alright so maybe that's why we are super different.  But either way I love her to pieces!

Here are some of the few pictures I remembered to take...if she had left her camera I would have lots more!

At sissy's favorite, Urth Cafe!

As usual, she ordered much better than me: Tortilla soup and a caesar salad

Margherita pizza (still pretty good)

Facials!

Our good old friend Albert Einstein

This view was so much better in person!

At the cutest Italian restaurant, C & O Trattoria (they pass out song lyrics to Bella Notte and everyone sings it every half hour and have waiters whose sole job it is to see you never run out of garlic bread rolls which are the yummiest EVER!)

We love you sissy!  Come back and visit us real soon!