After a rainy start to my trip to visit Lauren, things became instantly better on Monday with the reappearance of our friend the sun. If you'll remember from the last post, Lauren had class which left me to my own devices after a really, really large breakfast at Geronimo's (aka, that campus place). I updated the blog, played some Neopets (shut up, we still do that), and then took a really nice nap before going out to explore campus. I zinged through the art building (mostly illustration and design work) and then headed to where Lauren's building was. I sat around and drew pictures for awhile, and then Lauren showed up after class so that we could grab food on campus and commence our plans for the day.
We got a late start, but we headed out to City Walk around 6pm with the intention of walking around, getting some frozen yogurt, and having a few drinks at one of the bars. Unfortunately, the bar we wanted to go to closed early, so we headed to one called 'Howl at the Moon.' It's normally a dueling piano bar, but Monday night was local band night. We had a drink while the band was setting up and then opted to head home and find something to do closer to campus. The only problem with this was we (apparently) didn't really know where we were going, so when we left we got on a bus that over shot campus by quite a bit. This was okay, though, because we found our way back with minimal scarring and spent most of the ride dreaming up a dinosaur/pizza chain complete with dinosaur/pizza themed pizza names (tricheeseatops, velocipepper, tar pit, brac-and-cheesey-saurus). When we finally made it back to civilization, we grabbed the left over Franzia and headed to Lauren's friends' apartment for some drinking and socializing, complete with non-dino themed pizza. Boohoo.
Despite our late night, we got up early this morning to cram in everything that we wanted to do today. After a quick granola bar breakfast, we headed down to LaBrea and Melrose to eat at Pink's, a super famous hot dog stand. Lauren had the Walk of Fame Dog and I tried the Baja Veggie Dog (complete with guacamole). We were totally not disappointed. After our classy meal, we headed down Melrose for shopping galore. They had so many cool/unique/interesting stores, including a bunch of great vintage places, and by the end of the day we were completely shopped out. Lauren found a really great pair of Doc Martens, and I snagged a shirt and some jewelery. Once our feet and wallets started to hurt, we headed to Union Station (aka downtown Los Angeles) to meet up with friends who were taking us to a restaurant specializing in weird kinds of Bratwurst and Papas Frites. Yeah, it was our second hot dog of the day, but we feel okay about it since it was a) classier and b) came with beer while you were waiting in line. Pink's, that's something you should probably think about.
Today was probably my favorite day in LA so far. The weather was perfect - sunny and 70 - and the area we were in was totally up my alley. We're ready to get up and do it all again tomorrow!
GMC FTW!
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