Hi!  I'm from the Seattle nestie board and my H and I are thinking of taking  a trip down to CA this summer - he has to be in LA for work, so we'll  be starting there.  I've really only been to San Francisco/bay area,  Disneyland and San Diego.  So a couple questions...
a) if we are going to be gone for a week, and only wanted to spend a day or so in LA, what should we do?
b)  we'd like to spend the rest of the time outside the city, maybe near  the beach, quiet/relaxing/romantic... where would you go? 
I posted this on TN LA board, but it doesn't seem to be very active.
TIA!