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.
...while others enjoyed listening, ...or playing with the toys.
...and the great food: pizza, tasty Ethiopian food, ...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, ...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.
...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". The next day, New Year's Eve, Tom, Maria, my grand daughter and I went to The Point,
...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.
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,
...and that serves good spaghetti.
...while I had the Spaghetti Pomodoro. Molto yummy! After dinner we returned to the nearby Arclight Cinema to catch another movie.
...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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