Today was a day to remember! As you can imagine, we’ve spent countless hours finding random, fun activities to do in various parts of Souther California and this, so far, was the best amazing random adventure we’ve taken.

Delaney and Owen both love princesses and fairies and things like that. They also both love the idea of theater but for very different reasons (her because she’s decided shows/movies are scary and him because he’s a barbarian), we haven’t been able to find many shows or activities that would work for us. This one checked all of the boxes so much that I thought it would be fake and not really exist once we got there. The Faery Hunt was an interactive show that took a group of dressed-up kids in fairy costume around the woods of Griffith Park (one of our “must do” destinations for this trip…where you can hike, play and see the Hollywood sign). It started at the base of the parking lot and we were thrilled when there were a bunch of other little kids there.

We needed to find the Queen Fairy and her missing light and on the way, we met up with lots of other fairies in the woods. Stardust, Brook, Queen Anya, and then Nixy the Gnome. It was so much fun. We walked through the woods, the fairies all sang songs and got the kids to join in (including D!), and it was really a magical time – and funny. After about and hour of the show, we had a Fairy Birthday Party in the park complete with face painting, lunch, hide and seek games, dancing, and story time. All of these things were marketed and I really thought they wouldn’t happen – and they did! The show from end to end was 10:15am-1pm. Worth every penny and Delaney and Owen loved every second.

After the show, we bravely decided to do the quick hike up to the Observatory because we were so close. Delaney was amazing. Owen fell asleep for a bit in the hiking backpack – and we got all the way up the hill to see the Hollywood sign. It became a beautiful day and the kids were so, so good, we felt very lucky to have enjoyed it so much. This was one of the last places we had kind of written off not seeing and I’m so beyond glad we decided to do the show and see Griffith Park. It was so great!

We made our way to Beverly Hills, drove through Rodeo Drive just to see it. drove through some famous neighborhoods past MJ’s old house and probably a million other famous people but found it to be super weird and not that cool bc these people’s lives much be wildly isolating with gates all around them etc. so it was interesting to see but weird.

One the way home, while the kids slept, we decided to hit up one last dinner spot we wanted to try called Rock & Brews in El Segundo and it was another hit. The kids slept in the car so were ready to eat when we got there, it was an open air beer garden-style restaurant and super family friendly. We ate, the kids played in a little gym thing, and we enjoyed a beautiful night outside before finally making it back home for baths and bed.

Such a FUN, FUN day.