A CAROUSEL & AN ABANDONED ZOO

Sometimes I forget what a cool city Los Angeles is. After long weeks of work, it's easy for weekends to become vortexes of sweatpants and Netflix. And once you're trapped in that vortex, it's really easy to miss out on all the fun adventures that could be happening instead.

So, Zach and I have started a list of all fun things we want to do, restaurants we want to try, areas we want to explore, museums we want to wander through... (you get the idea) and each weekend we're trying to cross at least one thing off the list. It's a fun way of forcing us lazy people to get out of the house at least once between Friday night and Monday morning.

This weekend, we crossed the Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round and Old Los Angeles Zoo off our list. Normally, we use Griffith Park for it's hiking trails. But this Sunday, we packed up a picnic basket and headed over to the Northwest side instead.

There, we spent the afternoon drinking sparkling water, eating cookies, buying $2 carousel tickets, and wandering around abandoned lion cages (or, what's left of them.) 

It was kind of the perfect afternoon.

What about you? Did you do anything fun this weekend?