I'd like to say thank you to the City of Angeles. Forty times. Here goes:
1. Thank you for providing a home for my grandfather for over 50 years. He loved you.
2. Thank you for authentic churros on Olvera Street. Oh-my-gosh-yummy.
3. Thank you for public transportation. My husband loves riding your trains and busses. I love things my husband loves.
4. Thank you for being kind to vegetarians.
5. Thank you for being a place Walt Disney liked to do business. For that is why we are here.
6. Thank you for The Huntington. Your gardens and your library are like Chapstick on dry lips, like bananas at the end of a long run, like slippers at the end of a tough day, like ... (well, you get the idea).
7. Thank you for hiring me.
8. Thank you for free summer concerts at Memorial Park.
9. Thank you for Cafe Linda, the most wonderful Thai food ever. EVER.
10. Thank you for the Rose Bowl. It's just flat-out cool to live near the Rose Bowl.
11. Thank you for being home to the first year of our marriage.
12. Thank you that the young 'uns in our family like to visit us here. You're awesome that way.
13. Thank you for liking movies so much. We do, too.
14. Thank you for having a spring that lasts well into November.
15. Thank you for welcoming people from all over the world.
16. Thank you for Santa Monica, especially the bike trail. Wind and salt are two of our favorite things.
17. Thank you for playing hip-hop Christmas music in Chinatown.
18. Thank you for being in the Pacific Time Zone, specifically so that we can watch three football games every Sunday (and still go to bed before 9 p.m.).
19. Thank for having both a classical music station AND public radio.
20. Thank you for LACMA. You're worth the two trains and one bus. The third floor of the Ahmanson Building gives me chills.
21. Thank you Ralphs's for being two blocks away, which is helpful when I forget to buy a bell pepper for our beans and rice.
22. Thank you Europane for making scones Matt loves so much, he doesn't even bat an eye when we spend $20 on a dozen of them.
23. Thank you for your oranges. I love your oranges. I think I will go eat one of you right now.
24. Thank you for the Rio Hondo. You're not very pretty, but isn't that true of so many of life's best gifts?
25. Thank you for Lake Ave. You are a great host to our walks.
26. Thank you for adding non-stop flights to Shanghai.
27. Thank you for the LA Dodgers, especially Vince and his lore.
28. Thank you for Fuller's outdoor prayer room.
29. Thank you for Mr. Vermeer for loaning your work to the Norton Simon.
30. Thank you Arclight for the personalized welcome and greetings as we recline in our pre-selected, squishy seat.
31. Thank you King Taco (aka Keeeeeng Taaaaah-koe) for being two blocks away from the Memorial Park train station.
32. Thank you Orange Grove for what Matt calls, "good planning and scale."
33. Thank you Chase for being warm and supportive and welcoming from day one.
34. Thank you for mock earthquake drills cleverly marketed as The Great Shakeout.
35. Thank you for thousands upon thousands of cute dogs we try to identify (which always gives us a pause to miss Zacch and appreciate Tori).
36. Thank you for Pacific-Asia Museum, especially the monks and their sand painting.
37. Thank you for Urth and the baby gorilla coffee (we WILL bring back the bags).
38. Thank you for gas appliances (especially the hot water for showers!).
39. Thank you for the perennials, annuals, and all manner of flora and fauna. We find a new growing something to love on pretty much every walk we take.
40. (Many of these were Matt-adds, this one in particular) Thank you for helping my mom and dad bring me into this world.
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