LA LA Land

LA LA Land

Well, I just arrived back to The Bay from La La Land (Los Angeles) Once or twice a month I travel down to LA for rehearsals with Ledges and Bones. There are three of us from SF that pack up my car and I drive the 6 hour drive...oh wait...6 hours would be in a perfect world...in the REAL world it can take over 8 hours.

While driving...Right before the Grapevine and the bad storm

Friday morning we got a late start which caused us to not only hit a terrible rain storm at the Grapvine but then we hit rush hour traffic and once we got into the city, our 10 mile drive (we were suppose to make it to rehearsal by 4 (2 hours early) turned into an extra 2 hours so we didn't arrive to rehearsal till 10 till 6. Lets just say I was feeling very cranky. In fact, I believe I had a few choice words towards LA and the drivers there (and the weather!)

Cali Landscape

The major highlights of drive to LA is that I get to see my AMAZING friends Joho and Steve Berger! They are so fantastic and let me crash in their guest room and hang out with them. This weekend we went to a party at one of Steve's colleagues houses. It had a bunch of yummy food, drinks, and lots of film people. The dancers at rehearsal the next day asked if I got discovered...not this time though! :) Seeing JoHo makes me so happy. She tells the best stories, and always makes me smile. I am not a big fan of LA but I am big fans of the Berger's so I can't help but love going to LA in order to see them.

These are pictures from over a year ago of JoHo and Steve and me...but I didn't take any this weekend with them and they tots deserve a picture!! So I figured that the best pictures to post of them is with In-N- Out (the best burger place ever in Cali!)

The thing I hate the most about LA...hmm...where to start....the traffic, the hundreds of interstates (oh wait in LA they call them "Freeways"), its super spread out, the traffic, oh wait...did I mention the traffic?! On any given day a 10 mile drive can take hours. And today, I drove on about 10 interstates. Can we say ridiculous?!

I was driving on the I-10 (interstate) and if you look at the bottom left of my Garmin you'll see that the speed limit was 65 mph and next to that number you will see that I was sitting still at 0 mph! I was sitting still long enough to take my phone out and take this picture...all while sitting still on a major interstate...

Check out all the Green signs for all the options of interstates...while sitting in traffic...I actually was moving a little faster at this point!

In the faint distance you can see the mountain and white on it...it is the Hollywood sign

Me in front of the Hollywood sign (an old picture)

Hollywood...

Luckily today, the weather cleared up and it was warm and sunny. That makes LA nice! The radio on Friday night said, "Unfortunatly, tomorrow's high will ONLY be 65 degrees." No joke, they said ONLY! On Feb. 6 2010 I woke up with the weather on my phone informing me that it was going to be raining off and on (yuck) and that at 8 am it was already 60 degrees!! It made me laugh and think about all the midwest folks are freezing.

More Cali Landscape

Well, after a long weekend of rehearsals and driving, I am happy to be back in the bay with my kitty, even though its not as warm and sunny here.