City of Angels
Trip Start
Jan 17, 2008
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Trip End
May 04, 2008
Los Angeles,
California,
United States
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Friday 18th April
Another day...another sunny place...another aeroplane! This time we boarded the flight from San Francisco back to LA to stay with our lovely Aunt Sherry & Uncle Ed at their palace in Valencia. Sherry kindly collected us and drinks were quickly distributed out and we enjoyed watching the Californian sun set in the distance from her back garden. Definitely more luxurious than some of our previous residences! Sinking into our massive bed, we sighed with relief at the comfort of the US. We are definitely flashbacking it again now!
Saturday 19th April
So, having been in LA 2 years ago we had already seen most of the sights...so what's a girl to do then?
California Girls
! SHOPPING of course!! First of all we visited a hairdressing salon who kindly helped our poor tresses and tried to repair some of the damage inflicted upon our poor fibres the last couple of months (very stressful you see!)So, hair done and looking hot we were true LA girls strutting our stuff down the malls and maxing out our credit cards. How are we going to pack such truckloads of clothes you may ask...well our theory is "out with the old and in with the new!" In other words...we bucked out everything we owned and filled up our cases with our new purchases!
Planning to only shop for part of the afternoon, the next thing we knew it was already dark and we were all heading back to LAX airport again (thankfully it had nothing to do with us boarding a plane) to pick up Bonnie (an other family relative).
Finished the evening with a few more drinks (we're really living up the fact that we have proper Bacardi again!) Sherry informed us that it's really cheap to be an alcoholic in California so we thought we might just test this theory!
Sunday 20th April
Sherry, Ed, Bonnie and us all headed out to a champagne brunch in Calabasas, about an hours drive from their house
Champagne Ladies
. With LA being so huge this sort of drive is a completely normal thing to do for a bite to eat!So a champagne brunch was the perfect excuse for us to get all dolled up...a pleasant experience and relatively easy job to do considering we now have hot showers, electricity, fresh towels and mirrors!
All we can say the Americans sure know how to put on one hell of a buffet! Every type of food imaginable was available to you whether it was breakfast, lunch, dinner or all 3 if you could manage it!! The champagne flowed along nicely and was included in the buffet. An hour or so later we were already pretty merry and very full! A live band then came on and rocked it up. This place was kind of a Harley Biker haunt (think leathers, long hair and bandanas) so we had great fun people-watching (tho not staring too hard for fear of making the scary men angry lol)
Then it happened...our first ever celebrity sighting. Sitting quietly (!) minding our own business Laura happened to turn round and splutter out the words "That's Pink...Joy look...that's Pink...it bloody is...IT'S PINK!!" And there she was, shuffling up to a table beside us with a group of her friends/security
Drunkards.....
! Although the funniest part of it all was when Sherry grabbed an embarrassed Laura to head up for a photo op with her idol...the only problem being Sherry hadn't the faintest idea who Pink was and led Laura up to some nobody who just happened to be standing by Pink and asked if her niece could have her picture taken with him! Looking rather smug and pleased with himeself he was all too happy to oblige although Laura quickly snubbed him and scrambled back to the sanctuary of her spritzer!So finally leaving the brunch we headed to Santa Monica Pier and Muscle Beach (unfortunately for us there wasn't much muscle on display at that time). The pier was lovely but very windy so after a quick walk about we were all feeling the effects of a hard days drinking and headed back for the warmth of the shower.
Monday 21st April
Today we had tickets for the Ellen Degeneres talkshow being filmed at Burbank. We could only get standby tickets so to try and get into the audience meant getting up at 7.30am and start queueing at 9...so much for our thoughts that we would rest in LA!! So we'd resigned ourselves to queueing until they let you into the studio at 1pm however we were pleased to find out that they actually come out and assign you numbers every hour...meaning we could leave and come back again at 2pm
Freezing @ Santa Monica
. So we hit Burbank Centre of shopping and lunch before heading back to wait it out until 4pm when you find out if you are in the audience or not. Unfortunately for us all VIP and guaranteed ticket holders arrived and there was no more space left for us lowly standbys :( Therefore we were all put into the Riff Raff room where you get to watch the taping on monitors instead. A bit disappointing but we had a great time anyway and made the most of it!
Tuesday 22nd April
So today was a free day with nothing much planned. We took a drive about and rounded up a few last minute necessities before packing up our luggage ready for our next destination. Tomorrow we are roadtrippin' it to Vegas where Laura is very excited as her folks are flying out to meet us for the next week. It's gonna be Party Time in Vegas Baby!
J & L...keepin it real!
xoxo
