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Finishing Up The Old Year

1/3/2017

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     Our New Year's Eve celebration here in Los Angeles began a day early at a kids' karaoke party on Friday afternoon at the home of some friends of Maria and Justin.
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     Some really got into the singing,
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...while others enjoyed listening,
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...or playing with the toys.
    In any case we all enjoyed the company,
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...and the great food:  pizza,
tasty Ethiopian food
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...and yummy desserts.
     On Friday night, as Maria, Justin, and the girls had a Chanukah party,  Tom and I went out to the movies at The Arclight Cinema in Manhattan Beach to see "La La Land,"
...which got great reviews and the trailer of which  promised a sweet, whimsical musical,
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...but which kind of made me think of flat ginger ale.  Between the song and dance numbers the movie didn't really fizz, I thought.
   Still, the theater was beautiful,
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...as was the square outside the theater,
...and in the lobby were on display the actual outfits worn by Denzel Washington and his co-star in the movie "Fences".
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     The next day, New Year's Eve, Tom, Maria, my grand daughter and I went to The Point, 

...a nearby mall in Manhattan Beach,
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...to a cute, healthy-food restaurant called Mendocino Farms,
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...where we met for lunch with my sweet niece Annie, who is beautiful as a movie star but who is in fact  a dedicated transplant nurse.
     We all agreed the sandwiches at this restaurant were the best, each one deliciously seasoned and sauced.
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    I had the "Not Fried Chicken Sandwich",  which was one awesome   chicken sandwich.  I wish I knew how to duplicate whatever was in the  sauce.
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     That evening Maria, Justin and the girls had another party to attend so Tom and I were on our own to celebrate New Year's Eve.  
      We opted to go out for dinner at a little Manhattan Beach pizzeria called Union Pizza,

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...which looked over a pretty terrace,
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...and that serves good spaghetti.
Tom had the spaghetti and meatballs,
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...while I had the Spaghetti Pomodoro.  Molto yummy!
    After dinner we returned to the nearby Arclight Cinema to catch another movie.
This time we saw "Office Christmas Party",
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...which, despite the stank reviews it received, we really enjoyed.
     It's been a while since we laughed so hard at a movie, and  then we continued laughing after the it was over, recalling the hilarious scenes.
     We figured we could do worse than laugh our way into the new year.

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