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If you're already missing the L.A. County Fair, mosey on down to Arcadia this weekend. Holy Angels Church is having it's annual fiesta, replete with the joys of carnival time: the wonder wheel, food booths, face painting et al. The boys are already talking Gravitron.
Fiesta hours are 6 to 10 p.m. tomorrow, Friday, Oct. 8; 2 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, and noon to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10. Weather promises to be just beautiful and perfect for wandering the fair grounds.(I'll be there working the hula hoop booth on Saturday, Filipino food booth on Sunday and trying to keep up with the kiddos the rest of the time.)
Admission is free. The church is celebrating its 75th anniversary by the way, so come help celebrate a bit of local history too.
Holy Angels is at 370 Campus Drive, in Arcadia, right across from the mall. For more information, call (626) 447-1671.
Fiesta hours are 6 to 10 p.m. tomorrow, Friday, Oct. 8; 2 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, and noon to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10. Weather promises to be just beautiful and perfect for wandering the fair grounds.(I'll be there working the hula hoop booth on Saturday, Filipino food booth on Sunday and trying to keep up with the kiddos the rest of the time.)
Admission is free. The church is celebrating its 75th anniversary by the way, so come help celebrate a bit of local history too.
Holy Angels is at 370 Campus Drive, in Arcadia, right across from the mall. For more information, call (626) 447-1671.
One advantage of being a stay-at-home, work-at-home mom is the odd day when you can hold off on your to-do-list just that day and not be anywhere for a good hour or two. That's when I head to the Huntington (or if you're not on a first name basis with this great place, the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens).
I first discovered the Huntington as a tourist visiting from Manila in 1986, wowed by the sheer expanse of the gardens and hypnotized by their literary collection ( the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales! A copy of the Gutenberg Bible on vellum! Scrawled letters from literary giants!) I rediscovered it as a college student at Pasadena City College, when I had to write a story on muralist Betty Dore, who just happened to work at the Huntington Tea Room. It has since become my happy place, my cheering-up corner of the world.
I first discovered the Huntington as a tourist visiting from Manila in 1986, wowed by the sheer expanse of the gardens and hypnotized by their literary collection ( the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales! A copy of the Gutenberg Bible on vellum! Scrawled letters from literary giants!) I rediscovered it as a college student at Pasadena City College, when I had to write a story on muralist Betty Dore, who just happened to work at the Huntington Tea Room. It has since become my happy place, my cheering-up corner of the world.
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