crazy Hollywood!

tonight kaia and leia hung out with auntie kimmy & uncle john so we could go out to Hollywood to see our friend, ben, and his band play ( & greg laswell, too) at Hotel Cafe. on the way there, when we were about 10 miles away from our exit...the traffic completely STOPS! in east LA. not only does it stop, but up ahead, we see almost a dozen police cars and a "ghetto bird" circling and circling. all of this is going on about 1/4 mile ahead of us...to make a long story short, we found out that the 4 guys they were chasing had just robbed a store and they chased them on to the freeway, turns into a shooting (not sure if anyone got hit) and 2 of the guys escaped and were running down the freeway. the entire freeway was closed down...luckily we were far ahead enough to where we were able to go straight, but everyone about a quarter-mile (at the most) behind us had to exit the freeway. on the way home at about 11:00, it was still closed. also, there was a wreck on the was home, so we were completely stopped for probably about 15 minutes coming back too. just another crazy night in so cal!
we finally got there!
WOW...we already look so tired!
here's ben...


our very slow ride home!