Shannon's Birthday

Friday, August 7th I turned the big 2-9. One more year to act crazy and irrational - then it's all seriousness from then on (yah right!). Thirty's the new twenty :) Well, I had a good birthday. Christian and I went to visit Chris at work. He gave us a tour of the animation office, which was really neat. There is so much history there. Not only did they have walls of the new stuff they're working on, but they had old concept art framed (Flinstones, Looney Tunes, etc). It was really cool. We walked around the WB Ranch, but they were setting up to film a new sitcom coming up with Rebecca Romijn, so we couldn't see too much of it. This is the location of the waterfountain that is in the intro to the Friends show, where they're dancing around and in the fountain. It's right in the middle of the WB Ranch.
(Christian sitting at Daddy's desk)

(At Warner Brother's Animation: Display case of old characters..."Look dad, Bugs Bunny!")

We headed over to the other studio lot, where the the WB water tower is and all of the movies and other sitcoms are filmed, and I think Ellen is there, too. We didn't do the long tour (which I want to one day), but we walked around, had lunch at the comissary and then headed over to the WB Museum. The whole upstairs of the museum was Harry Potter cosutumes and props from the movie. Chris and I both sat under the Sorting Hat - I am a Hufflepuff and he's a Slitheran :)
The downstairs area were costumes from the 1940's - Casablanca, some costumes from the Matrix and much more. It was really neat.

(Lunch at WB Studios)

Chris had to head back to work, so Christian and I dropped him off, then headed home. Later that night my friend/roommate Genevieve won tickets to a jazz concert on a public radio station. So - we went on an adventure. The place was kind of hidden and a backdoor entrance, but we entered this classic, old-school super club with a small stage. We sat in the front, had a couple drinks and chatted with an electic mix of jazz with a Latin influnece played. It was a great time.