<p>You may want to check out the Santa Monica Pier. 3rd Street Promenade is fun with street performers on weekend evenings. Then I recommend the Border Grill on 4th Street, the restaurant of Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, “too hot tamales”. </p>
<p>Agree you should see the Getty and Griffith Observatory, which had fairly recent major reconstruction. Both are amazing!</p>