Los Angeles trip

So, April 3rd to April 4th, two friends and I went down to LA. Mostly, my friends wanted to see this boyband from the UK at the airport, and I decided to go along for the fun of it. I would hope that it would be more exciting for me, since it's the first friend-planned trip without parents that I've ever gone on, but I felt rather indifferent, to tell the truth. I felt like my mother should have let me do something like this a long time ago, so that's why I wasn't very excited.

Anyways - facts first, thoughts later. We first went to a Music Club meeting which went okay and then we started for the highway around 4:20 pm. My friends switched off driving since I don't have a license yet, so I just slept in the backseat half the time. We arrived at LAX at 10:00 pm ish, and found out that The Wanted's flight arrival was around 10:55, so we patiently waited. There were a lot of other people/girls waiting for the boyband too, and just like one of my friends described - they look like they're about to go clubbing or something. Then around 11:00 ish, one by one the members of the boyband begin to show up and everyone gets all excited as well as the paparazzi. My friends got a few pictures with.. only one of the members, actually. The boyband seemed really rushed and there were ton of girls trying to get a hold of each member.

So after that we headed to our hotel in this pretty sketchy part of the LA area (or Burbank, rather). Now that I think about it, if it's not Anaheim, then everywhere is pretty sketchy-looking. We checked in our hotel a little after midnight, and decided to get some Pinkberry. It was pretty cool that this Pinkberry down there opened until 2 or 3 am in the morning. We also got some food-food for one of us and stopped by two 7-11s to get snacks and water. When leaving this one 7-11, some random guy came up pointing his car keys at us so we rushed into the car. I actually don't think he meant any harm because he started asking basically anyone whatever question he was asking after we ignored him - he asked a nearby homeless and a group of these drunk people. But hey, it's way past midnight and we're tired and we don't have time to take any chances.

The next morning, we first went to this huge Guitar Center in the area which is literally like a musician's heaven. We also passed by the Musician's Institute of the LA area and for the whole morning I was reminded of Chase, hehe. We then headed down to Downtown Disney which took a hell of a lot longer than expected because for some stupid reason, LA always has tons and tons of traffic. Even when we were arriving to LA the night before, at like 9:30 - loads of cars on the highway.

But yes we eventually reached Anaheim, which is a much, much lovelier place than Burbank. We decided to eat at Rainforest cafe which was an fantastic luncheon experience. The food inevitably was on the pricier side, but the service and the eating atmosphere was just so great that it didn't really matter. We walked around Downtown Disney for less than an hour and then headed towards Santa Monica beach - our last destination before we headed home.

^ what Sarah and I ate for lunch

All we really did at Santa Monica beach was sort of wade in the water and just sat down and appreciated the scenery, haha. It's a really beautiful beach. We were also right next to the Santa Monica pier but it was already mid-evening so we had to head home. We started on the highway again at around 7:00 pm, and finally reached home around 1:30 am.

^Santa Monica beach