Day 17: Los Angeles

Today was a day filled with a shit load of food.

I woke up at 8, and had a shower. Oh the hot Swedish guys brought more than themselves.. they brought Vanilla Body Wash! It's not thieving right? I'm just borrowing it. I smelt great. I am so shitty because I only realised now that I left my shampoo/conditioner and my shaving cream and body wash back in New Jersey, (not that I didn't wash myself, I had other soap but I didn't wash my hair or shave since then..), I'm going to have to stock up on some travel items from CVS.

Back home, I can't cook for shit. Mum would even tease me that I can't fry an egg well. I made a pancake with the pancake mix, and it came out 100% perfect. I doused that shit with syrup and shared it with Jeanine. It took me a lot of back and forth deciding, but I decided to join Jeanine and Joyce to the Getty Center. It was hard to get to with public transport, but we eventually reached there and it was greatly designed and the gardens were beautiful. We were all not arty people or museum people, so we made sure we didn't "milk" the museum per se. We decided to visit the Impressionism exhibit with the works of Monet, Van Gogh, etc. We walked around, and the sun was beautiful, and the gardens were great.

We had food which was a taco bowl - fried tortilla chips, grilled chicken, salsa, and all this other taco shit but it was motherfucking huge. Luckily at this time I was very hungry so I finished MOST of it. But serving sizes here are ridiculously large. I'm gonna make sure I get the small size from now on. I also was craving an iced coffee so I got an iced cappuccino. I totally didn't realise though that this was the place my aunt wanted to take me to on Saturday. Oops.. I hope she's not mad and that there's still something to do on Saturday when I meet her. Well, there is the Getty Villa place which is another region. Hopefully we go there.

After that we ventured to Santa Monica Pier and Beach (not swimming though). It was very foggy and you couldn't see the water from where we were standing on top of the sand. The sand is wide, I don't know how to explain, it is basically a wide span of sand, and then the beach. It reminded me a lot of Manly beach, especially the like shopping pedestrian street leading to the beach. The pier was great with a Bubba Gump Shrimp shop and a mini amusement park. I wanted to try a float, but unfortunately the float place was closed. We walked around and eventually went to get the bus home. It took like 2 hours on the bus to get home because there was a lot of traffic. Some weirdo on the bus was trying to talk to me and my girl friends (who didn't reply), but pretty much, I did.. He was like "Do you have twitter?" No. "Do you have instagram?" Yes but I'm not going to follow you.

"Well I do brand marketing"

Ok, no, I don't have social networking, I know you're just trying to advertise your self or your business!

And he gave my friend Jeanine shit about her "attitude" and how she must be "unlucky in relationships". Dude, get a reality check, he was a total trash bag bogan. Please, stop. I just don't like talking to strangers and we were all tired as fuck, we weren't in the mood.

On the way back to the hostel, I wanted to stop at a pharmacy to get Vaseline Petroleum Jelly. While I was taking my time, Joyce got harrassed by a homeless guy with his arms out. She gave him a hug. God, this girl is hilarious. Hahahaha. I felt partially responsible for her traumatic experience though. Furthermore, not that I wasn't full, but Jeanine wanted a cupcake. I shouted her a red velvet cream cheese, and I had a strawberry cream cheese. Man whoever invented cream cheese must be God!

We went back to the hostel and freshened up and met Peter for dinner tonight. Me, Jeanine and Peter were dying for sushi which Joyce doesn't like. We found a sushi place that also served Chinese food, so we went there. I got a tiger roll, which was absolutely amazing. It was the right amount of spice. During dinner, we asked a waiter to take our photo.  I complained I looked fat in one and asked him to take another, which was perfect. Joyce borrowed the camera to look at the photos, "oh yes, you really look fat in that one". Thanks Joyce, you are brutally but wonderfully honest! No but I love her, she's great. We also had a fun talk about how in USA I'd be giving $1 or $2 tips instead of like 20%. Wow, you guys tip alot. It was $58 and I wanted to round it to $60, but they rounded it to $70.

After that we walked around where I bought havaianas for the beach tomorrow and went to American Apparel where I wanted to buy everything. Ugh. I hate clothes! On the way back, I saw a really cute hispanic gay couple..

Stefano: AWWW

Jeanine: What?

Stefano: They're so cute. I'm so sad. There's a cute gay couple. *frowns*

Jeanine: ... At least you got cute flip flops?

Yes. I'd take flip flops over a relationship anyday!

Now I'm in the hostel lounge, preparing for a beach day with Joyce tomorrow and we are going to stalk Kim Kardashian! It was great meeting Jeanine. She leaves tomorrow. Randomly bumping into her at the sign up sheets and her missing her limo ride, the gun club AND San Diego, she is hilarious. I think it's so funny how you can meet someone or talk to someone or spark a conversation in the strangest situations and then you become friends. That's great. I'm gonna miss her, but will hopefully see her when I'm in Paris for my exchange and she lives in The Netherlands.

Budget:

$18 cute flip flops

$15 sushi

$12 taco bowl

$4 iced cappuccino

$3 vaseline

$6 cup cakes

= $48.

Yeah, I'm proud of myself. Hopefully I get a pic with Kim K tomorrow!