Adventures With Britt!

Britt is here and we are having an absolute blast! Mark and I are trying to show her as much as we can in the week that she is here so we've been super busy. On Monday we went to Santa Monica to see the famous Pier and Third Street Promenade. Tuesday we hung out by the pool and then went to see a live taping at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank. We saw the taping of the 2nd episode of the new season of The New Adventures of Old Christine, which stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus (aka Elaine from Seinfeld). The tickets are free, and you just have to line up about an hour beforehand to get into the show. As the live audience you get to see the entire episode taped, in the different sets. It was SO neat to see the actors live and up close like that, and to watch how a tv show is made. The thing that I found so fascinating was that they are actually testing the episode out on the live audience. If lines are delivered and the audience doesn't laugh, they literally rewrite the scene to make it funnier! So they'll break for like 5 minutes, the writers will gather together, they'll show the actors the new lines, and then they'll record the scene again! If there are bigger laughs, they stick with the new lines. It happened in a few of the scenes we saw - first go they weren't very funny, and then after the re-write they were hilarious. If you have not seen this show before (which none of us had!), it is actually really good and Julia Louis-Dreyfus won an Emmy for her role in it! Anyone who is looking to visit us out here, this is an experience we would totally recommend and love to do again. You even get free pizza and water as you watch!! Some of the other shows you can watch live are:

- Hank

- Two and a Half Men

- Ellen

- Dr. Phil

- Conan O'Brien

www.tvtickets.com shows more of a list too!

Here are some pics of our adventures in Santa Monica and at the WB. Of course we had to introduce Britt to In 'n' Out burger and Cold Stone Creamery so here she is having her first taste!