Settling In

Well, it's been a few months now and we're starting to get a little more comfy in our new surroundings. However, due to extensive traveling for work and friends' weddings back East, we've been away more than we'd like (friend disclosure: Not that we didn't want to go back and be there for the weddings, of course). Then again it has also allowed us to see a lot of friends and family which we may have not been seeing for a while.

Anyway, we're finally back for the forseeable future. We've really made the South Bay (Manhattan, Hermosa and Redondo Beach) our little SoCal world. Though we are technically part of L.A., you wouldn't really know it by our lifestyle... at least not yet. We don't really drive much like the other 11 million people in L.A. do everyday. We walk or ride our bikes pretty much everywhere we can with exceptions of course. Traffic is as bad as they say, so we avoid getting on the freeways at all costs.

We're learning where to get the little things done that you take for granted until you move somewhere completely foreign and new to you. Like: what dry cleaner to go to? Where to get our hair cut? What grocery store? Favorite bars/restaurants? Where's the cheapest gas (actually... that's nowhere in LA)? What gym to go to? Should I go running on or along the beach today? ETC...

Slowly but surely we're making this place home. Now that we're more settled we can try to share our new digs with you some more. Our own little Melrose Place is finally starting to feel like home. (pictures to come...)