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Don and I scored Hamilton tickets as a joint birthday celebration to ourselves. We’ve seen the original production on Disney and are huge fans. Mae was kind enough to watch Quinn for the night so we could enjoy an overnighter in Hollywood.

Our room wasn’t quite ready so we had a glass of champagne to start the celebration!

The view from our room. I might have cropped out the 101 and some other not-so-beautiful scenery.

Seems like a fitting spot for Lin-Manuel’s star.

We had a fantastic dinner on the rooftop of our hotel. There is a pop-up Yakitori (Japanese skewers) restaurant and it was just right. My handsome guy.

Sunset view from the roof top.

This is where it all went down. The cast was amazing and the audience brought such great energy. We are still talking about it.

Sunday morning we walked to the Hollywood Farmers Market and picked up some goodies. And then to Santa Monica for lunch. View from our table.

Our seafood platter to start off the meal. So good.

We loved our evening away and Mae and Quinn enjoyed their 24 hours together too!

So, this happened.

On the way home from TKD the other day, Quinn told Don that he was having a hard time seeing the white board in school. I was able to get him an eye appointment the next day and sure enough, he needs glasses. The glasses have a very small correction, but enough for him to see distance better. When he puts the glasses on, he says the graphics are much better and he can now see in HD. Teen speak.

Quinn tried on a bunch of different frames and he kept coming back to this one because it was the most comfortable. Funny that it’s the same brand and almost the same frame that Don wears. Like father, like son.

Quinn is pretty pleased with wearing glasses. He told me this funny school lunch story. Quinn was having lunch with 2 friends, Logan who wears glasses and Elias who does not. Another kid, who also wears glasses, sat down at the table with them. So, 3 with glasses and 1 no glasses. Logan turned to Elias and said “Hey 2 eyes”. LOL.

Quinn has a new group of friends that have formed. He’s known all the kids since 1st grade but they seem to be forming some new friendships. He got a text to meet them at the mall on a Sunday afternoon. We are working on giving Quinn more opportunities for independence and thought this would be good. It turned out to be Quinn and a handful of girls…and he had fun. He texted to be picked up and this is where we found him.

Deep thoughts at the dentist.

We got a rock and roll start to the week. It wasn’t a very big one but it was only 3 miles from us. The house shook for a good 10-15 seconds. Wow! My biggest shake yet.

Quinn did this pencil sketch on a post it note of his buddy Elias. His dad sent it to me. It does such a great job of capturing him. They were talking about Native Americans in Social Studies and the corn grinder they used. Somehow hilarious to 13 year old boys.

Did you know they make PPE gear for musicians? Quinn is starting up private lessons again and he needed this gear for the lesson. At school they just go outside.

On Sunday we drove up to Santa Barbara for the first time in a year or so. There’s an ocean side restaurant where we like to stop for lunch. You can’t tell but the ocean is on the other side of those hedges.

Every Sunday there is an outdoor art sale. We were looking for a wind spinner sculpture for our yard but we weren’t able to find any. But a lovely afternoon.