Ok, this is just about "livin' in LA," but "To Live in LA" is not a song. And "To Live and Die in LA" is. So there. Anyways.
Last week John and me and his roommate Quinn took a little roadtrip to LA. The thing is, for all John's LA love and all the things he's talked about showing me there, in the last two years, we've never gotten to go together. Until this weekend.
Oh, did I mention MUSE was in town?
So, of course, we were there.
Originally, we were going to head out at about 4, but Quinn had some Elder's Quorum situation stuff to do, so we left at 9. P.M. And pulled up to John's parents house at 4 AM. The trip was fun, actually. First, we stopped at QT. QT to me has historically been just a gas station, but many people love this place. It is, actually, the Ritz Carlton of gas stations. Our snack list included:
A Ham & Cheese Sandwich
A cup of delicious purple grapes
A couple yummy cookies
A 52oz. vanilla diet coke (I think; it was Quinn's. The important part being that you can flavor any soda you want with any flavor you want.)
Trail Mix
AND
A peanut butter filled chocolate frosted doughnut. Yup. That's right. A peanut butter doughnut. Kinda weird, but good.
We all talked the whole way there, and it was nice to have two people who were so nice to talk to for that long.
His dad got up and talked to us for like an hour, which was nuts. Then John & Quinn slept in the living room and I slept in John's sister's room.
We slept until 9:30 when his parents woke us all up for breakfast. John's dad was super-excited to make me bacon that was about 1000 times better than the bacon I made for him in May. We also had delicious pancakes and fruit salad and it was so sweet of them and so much fun.
Then we went to the Getty. The Getty is basically the prettiest museum I've ever seen and it's HUGE. We spent 4 hours there, where I got in a little trouble for touching a dresser that may have been 360 years old. I loved loved loved the fountains all around and the garden and the photo exhibit. It was just all really perfect. And, if you're wondering, it's also totally free. So it felt like a huge beautiful service project to the world, and I loved it.
Then, off to Wahoo Tacos. Where we got 5 fish tacos, an energy drink, and chips and salsa for $10 bucks. And they were delicious. And I was too hungry to remember to take pictures. Oh well.
Next, Diddy Reese. Diddy Reese is like the cookie king of LA. They sell 6 cookies for $2 and 12 cookies for $3.75 and they taste exactly perfectly homemade. And even though the line is like a million miles long, it only takes 15 minutes, because they can make an ice cream sandwich in about 5 seconds. Oh, those ice cream cookie sandwiches? $1.50. mmmm.....so yum. (This is also in the neighborhood of LA where I stayed a couple years ago. It's beautiful.) Then we drove through some beautiful canyons and houses and stopped on the beach for 10 minutes just to breathe in the ocean (yes, this was my idea).
And then it was time for Muse. We went home, changed, and met up with Heather, a girl from LA who also served in John's mission. And then we rode the LA subway. Didn't know LA had a subway? Neither did I. But now I've ridden both LA's and New York's, which is just sweet. This is us trying to capture the moment:
It's clean, and nice, and well, it's a subway. Muse was sweet. Passion Pit I felt like I couldn't really make out the words to, but maybe that's because I don't know any of them. (I do like them on CD, but that's all I know....)
Isn't Muse's (Matt Bellamy) suit the best?
And to round out the day, we went to Pink's. Even at 12:30, the line was an hour. We were completely exhausted, but I might have been hearing about this for 2 years, and I needed some protein. So we happily stood in line and enjoyed these crazy hot dogs:
We ate them. We went to sleep. We went to church the next day. We took three hour naps. And then we drove home.
Ahhh....LA. Love you.
