Family Thursday/家族の日の木曜日

So today was a real treat...about two months ago Anna signed up to attend a Career Fair for Designers in L.A. The event was from 2pm to 7pm so we figured at the time that I could go to work and pick Anna and Madison up at 3:30 and then head to L.A., but when we started to see the traffic around at that time we got nervous, so I decided to take the day off to make sure Anna was able to make it on-time. So we headed up to L.A. around 10:30am and Madison fell asleep so we drove by the building where the fair would be and then headed onto Graumann's Chinese Theater in the middle of Hollywood to get our first official look at the Hollywood sign (we can see it as a blur from our apartment as well as an L.A. city view as the sun sets each night, which is cool) and eat lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe right off Hollywood Blvd where they were rolling out the red carpet for the premiere of Secretariat...how exciting :-) Then we headed back down the 101 into L.A. where I also got to cross seeing the Staples Center off my list of things to do as we drove right by it on the way to drop Anna off...after dropping her off Madison and I made the quick drive over to the Science Museum (right next to the Coliseum Sports Arena where USC plays football which I think is cool) that we had visited a couple of weeks ago. Madison had a great time playing in the courtyard area and watching the fish...it was lots of fun to be able to spend some daddy daughter time...then we headed back to pick up Anna who had accomplished what she wanted to at the Career Fair despite the very large crowd and enjoyed an L.A. trip at rush hour which was a lot better than we had expected as we made it home in under an hour. Back to work tomorrow.
約一ヶ月前にアンナが仕事探しの一歩としてファション業界のキャリアフェアに申し込んでいたんです。その時は、僕の学校が終わった後に急いで行けば十分時間があるはずだと思っていたんだけど、高速の混み具合が気になったので仕事を休んでちゃんと時間通りにアンナを送ってく事にしました。あさの１０時半頃に家を出発してマディソンが車の中でお昼寝をしている間を使ってあっという間にダウンタウンに到着！せっかくなのでハリウッドにある有名な人達の手形がある通りに行ってお昼を食べる事に...お昼の後はアンナのキャリアフェア開始の２時が迫っていたのでアンナを送って行って、僕とマディソンはそこから直ぐそこにある科学館にまた戻ってみる事に...久しぶりに娘と２人きりで時間を過ごす事が出来てよかったし、マディソンも魚を見たり庭で遊んだりと十分楽しむ事が出来たみたい。アンナを迎えに行った後思っていたより簡単に家に到着と今日はいろんな事が上手に行った日でした...

Since She took a late nap on the way back home she decided to stay up later... So this is a happy-sleepy 10pm Madison:-)
帰りに車の中で二回目のお昼寝をとってしまったマディソンはいつものおやすみの時間になっても全然眠たくなさそう...こんなに嬉しそうな夜１０時のマディソンです。

We forgot to post this video last week of Dave and Madison at the pool... Please note nobody was hurt during making of this video...:-)
これは先週載せ忘れていたマディソンと僕がプールであそんでいるビデオ...：）