Weekend In LA
SO...... I went to LA this weekend, hung out with my friend kristina and her son E.... I think I am just gonna recap the weekend in this post
Thursday:
Long horriable day, was in the office till after 11 sometime with the vendor watching them piddle around with stuff. went home and fell asleep.
Friday:
ended up getting up early, and thought I would go see if there were any interesting cars to rent for the weekend. I wandered down the tha airport checked out enterprise, saw they had a sentra decided to rent it... I parked my car in long term parking for the weekend and headed in the rental up to erich's to drop off frozen drink machine parts and to pick up "helen" the navagation woman.. LOL (really a garman portable nav unit) after that I headed back up to the house, stopped by saw loren and what he and his mother had done to the back yard... it looked really nice... at some point I will have to get into my issues areound that whole process. but that is for a later time...
from there I headed home, packed, cleaned up and shut down the computers in the house. I left and headed to 52nd and I-10 to top off with fuel before headed to LA. once on my way the trip went fairly un eventfull until about 30 miles fome that az/ca border. where I saw a DPS officer in the slow lane aperently doing about 65 in a 75 zone... I looked down and I was doing about 73... I figured I would slow to 70 and if I still caught up to him I would pass him.. well I did catch him and I did pass him and he proceeded to pull behind me turn on his lights and pull me over..... I hve not been pulled over in several years, so I was kinda at a loss why he would be pulling me over.. I waited paticently for him to make it to the car, I rolled down my passenger side windowand he bent down to look in... the first thing I noticed was he looked about 21-22 and the second thing I noticed was that he was VERY attractive. he imformed me that he pulled me over because I had the NAV unit in the window where it "blocked the drivers view" he then asked me to get out of the car and come back and stand near the front of his car. (I started to get concerned) once out of the car it became very apperent to me that he was in training, and his partner was far less formal. I stood there on the side of the road while he ran my information, and we chatted about what I did, and how to make money on the internet.... and of course his partner had to know if I knew danica kirkpatrick (the formula 1 race car driver that my company sponsers) i had to inform him that I did not, conversation was very casual and free flowing, so when he broke out his ticket book I was rather bummed.. I was hoping for a warning or somthing... he got finished writing and told me it was a written warning and that I should have a good day.... "yes sir, thank you sir... you to..." and I was once again off.
I had decided on the drive out there that I was going to take it easy, enjoy myself and stop when I wanted to... I stopped at blyth, car got 43 MPG WOW.... got a sandwitch, had a drink... continued on to cabazon, where I got fuel again... 38MPG, and checked out the outlet stors. I was looking for flip-flops but could not find the ones that I was looking for that I had found the last time. oh well... so I decided to press on..
I hit some pretty nasty traffic on the 91 but that was to be expected.. I really enjoyed driving the sentra in traffic, very smooth and just enough pick up and go. I got a call from kristina when I was getting ready to get on the 241 about 4:30 or so.. and Arived about 5.
we said our helow's and decided to go forage for some food and I needed to find some shoes for saturday at six-flags. I found a pair of shoes, they were not as comfy as the ones I had, but they would have to do, more sketchers. we then went and saw a couple of the sites around where she lived and proceeded to woo hoo's or wahoo's er somthing like that... where I had a tariaki chicken that I swar had opeium or somthing in it... it was SOOOOOOO good.. and I could not get enough.. then it was back to here place, a movie, some video games and then off to bed for an early start off to six flags...
Saturday:
Up at the crack of 5am, got showered and put on the cloths for the day which included my "you must be this tall to ride this ride" shirt... I thought it seemed appropiate.. Woke up E and he got dressed and ready. we all had some cereal and then we were off.. the park opened at 10 and we arived at the park by 9:30, stopping by a convience stor to get me an energy drink (was feelin a little tired and wanted a little pick me up) I should mention that my biggest fear with comeing out to LA and taking E to six flags was that I had not seen him in several years and he used to be so quiet and shy.. that fear slipped away about 5 minutes into the car ride where I realized we didn't need the radio.. LOL it was nice that we had the same taste in music (thanks in part to his mom I am sure) and the trip up there was fairly quick and uneventfull lots of talking, and misc...
Once at the park we made our way to the gates, just as they were opeaning, and once inside it was time to decide what we were going to go on first... E said that he wanted to go on somthing not to wild first but that had a loop... that was easy... the reveloution was one of the parks frist roller coasters and it had a loop... that went off really well not having to wait in line, then we went over to the viper (which has like 5 loops) but the line was already an hour... I thought it mightbe a good idea to hit the back side of the park where the less popular rides were. we hit riddlers revenge (stand up coaster) batman, and 2 others that I will have to go look up, all with no lines... after the first time on riddlers revenge, I had to take a break... (see energy drink above) my stomach was killing me... after hitting all the rides on the back side of the park, we went to see what the line was at some of the other attractions. the more we walked the longer the lines got and by noon they were all over 1.5 hours. E hates lines aperently, so we decided to come back and check out the riddler again. the line was not to long but it was sill about an hour... after that wait E looked kinda defeated. I told him we could do whatever he wanted... he decided he would like to go get somthing to eat outside the park and go home and play some games.. this worked for me espically since my stomach was still feeling funny...
we found an arby's on the way home, and had some food. my chicken sanwich ROCKED... we hit some pretty nasty traffic on the way home, it was ok because we were both glad to be sitting down anyway... we were about 30 minutes from home when Kristina called and asked where we were... I told here, she seemed surprised but totally understood.. she had taken a nap and relaxed for the day which sounded like what she needed.
once home, we hung out, played some video games, and then kristina and I went to dinner and left E home to play... this worked out much better than I had imagined because it gave kristina and I time to catch up, we went to roundtable for pizza (my favorite place) and 2 1/2 hours passed faster than I could have imagined.. home and then sleep... sunday was planned to be mellow.
Sunday:
We had planned sunday to be a leisurly day... drive up the coast, some lunch and then sprinkles.. MMMMM sprinkles... but I am getting ahead of myself. Sunday I woke up with the sun streaming through the windows, looked at my phone saw that it was like 8:30, "cool I slept in" I thought. layed there for a while, got up took a shower, and somehow got sucked into the game that aperently everyone plays called "guild wars" Kristina spent an hour or so just showing me the basics... then we left to go drive up the coast. we made it through several of the laguna's LOL kristina showed me where her boss used to take the team to lunch with the understanding that it was a quiet lunch, no talking, where they would just listen to the sounds around them.. to me that sounded like SUCH a good idea.. anyhoo.. we made it up to newport beach, and my stomach was telling me it was time to eat. we ended up eating at Califorina Pizza Kitchen... and I even left the veggies on my pizza.. LOL after eathing it was ON TO SPRINKLES!!!!!!
SPRINKLES:
Yes it gets its own heading... Kristina told me about this place when I was still in PHX... they are cupcakes... yes thats right... cupcakes http://www.sprinklescupcakes.com/ they are the most yummy cupcakes I have ever had... Thats saying somthing, cause I am not a big cupcake person... it is like they have crack in them or somthing... LOL there is one comeing to scottsdale, that should be a good time..
Guild Wars:
The other sugnificant thing that happened while I was out in LA, is I got hooked on guildwars. http://www.guildwars.com/ yes I know yet another on-line game that I am addicted to... but this one does't have a subscription fee.. so thats good...
Monday:
Monday I got up early came home, relaxed the rest of the day, and played guild wars... LOL maybe I will come back and update this more later..
Thursday:
Long horriable day, was in the office till after 11 sometime with the vendor watching them piddle around with stuff. went home and fell asleep.
Friday:
ended up getting up early, and thought I would go see if there were any interesting cars to rent for the weekend. I wandered down the tha airport checked out enterprise, saw they had a sentra decided to rent it... I parked my car in long term parking for the weekend and headed in the rental up to erich's to drop off frozen drink machine parts and to pick up "helen" the navagation woman.. LOL (really a garman portable nav unit) after that I headed back up to the house, stopped by saw loren and what he and his mother had done to the back yard... it looked really nice... at some point I will have to get into my issues areound that whole process. but that is for a later time...
from there I headed home, packed, cleaned up and shut down the computers in the house. I left and headed to 52nd and I-10 to top off with fuel before headed to LA. once on my way the trip went fairly un eventfull until about 30 miles fome that az/ca border. where I saw a DPS officer in the slow lane aperently doing about 65 in a 75 zone... I looked down and I was doing about 73... I figured I would slow to 70 and if I still caught up to him I would pass him.. well I did catch him and I did pass him and he proceeded to pull behind me turn on his lights and pull me over..... I hve not been pulled over in several years, so I was kinda at a loss why he would be pulling me over.. I waited paticently for him to make it to the car, I rolled down my passenger side windowand he bent down to look in... the first thing I noticed was he looked about 21-22 and the second thing I noticed was that he was VERY attractive. he imformed me that he pulled me over because I had the NAV unit in the window where it "blocked the drivers view" he then asked me to get out of the car and come back and stand near the front of his car. (I started to get concerned) once out of the car it became very apperent to me that he was in training, and his partner was far less formal. I stood there on the side of the road while he ran my information, and we chatted about what I did, and how to make money on the internet.... and of course his partner had to know if I knew danica kirkpatrick (the formula 1 race car driver that my company sponsers) i had to inform him that I did not, conversation was very casual and free flowing, so when he broke out his ticket book I was rather bummed.. I was hoping for a warning or somthing... he got finished writing and told me it was a written warning and that I should have a good day.... "yes sir, thank you sir... you to..." and I was once again off.
I had decided on the drive out there that I was going to take it easy, enjoy myself and stop when I wanted to... I stopped at blyth, car got 43 MPG WOW.... got a sandwitch, had a drink... continued on to cabazon, where I got fuel again... 38MPG, and checked out the outlet stors. I was looking for flip-flops but could not find the ones that I was looking for that I had found the last time. oh well... so I decided to press on..
I hit some pretty nasty traffic on the 91 but that was to be expected.. I really enjoyed driving the sentra in traffic, very smooth and just enough pick up and go. I got a call from kristina when I was getting ready to get on the 241 about 4:30 or so.. and Arived about 5.
we said our helow's and decided to go forage for some food and I needed to find some shoes for saturday at six-flags. I found a pair of shoes, they were not as comfy as the ones I had, but they would have to do, more sketchers. we then went and saw a couple of the sites around where she lived and proceeded to woo hoo's or wahoo's er somthing like that... where I had a tariaki chicken that I swar had opeium or somthing in it... it was SOOOOOOO good.. and I could not get enough.. then it was back to here place, a movie, some video games and then off to bed for an early start off to six flags...
Saturday:
Up at the crack of 5am, got showered and put on the cloths for the day which included my "you must be this tall to ride this ride" shirt... I thought it seemed appropiate.. Woke up E and he got dressed and ready. we all had some cereal and then we were off.. the park opened at 10 and we arived at the park by 9:30, stopping by a convience stor to get me an energy drink (was feelin a little tired and wanted a little pick me up) I should mention that my biggest fear with comeing out to LA and taking E to six flags was that I had not seen him in several years and he used to be so quiet and shy.. that fear slipped away about 5 minutes into the car ride where I realized we didn't need the radio.. LOL it was nice that we had the same taste in music (thanks in part to his mom I am sure) and the trip up there was fairly quick and uneventfull lots of talking, and misc...
Once at the park we made our way to the gates, just as they were opeaning, and once inside it was time to decide what we were going to go on first... E said that he wanted to go on somthing not to wild first but that had a loop... that was easy... the reveloution was one of the parks frist roller coasters and it had a loop... that went off really well not having to wait in line, then we went over to the viper (which has like 5 loops) but the line was already an hour... I thought it mightbe a good idea to hit the back side of the park where the less popular rides were. we hit riddlers revenge (stand up coaster) batman, and 2 others that I will have to go look up, all with no lines... after the first time on riddlers revenge, I had to take a break... (see energy drink above) my stomach was killing me... after hitting all the rides on the back side of the park, we went to see what the line was at some of the other attractions. the more we walked the longer the lines got and by noon they were all over 1.5 hours. E hates lines aperently, so we decided to come back and check out the riddler again. the line was not to long but it was sill about an hour... after that wait E looked kinda defeated. I told him we could do whatever he wanted... he decided he would like to go get somthing to eat outside the park and go home and play some games.. this worked for me espically since my stomach was still feeling funny...
we found an arby's on the way home, and had some food. my chicken sanwich ROCKED... we hit some pretty nasty traffic on the way home, it was ok because we were both glad to be sitting down anyway... we were about 30 minutes from home when Kristina called and asked where we were... I told here, she seemed surprised but totally understood.. she had taken a nap and relaxed for the day which sounded like what she needed.
once home, we hung out, played some video games, and then kristina and I went to dinner and left E home to play... this worked out much better than I had imagined because it gave kristina and I time to catch up, we went to roundtable for pizza (my favorite place) and 2 1/2 hours passed faster than I could have imagined.. home and then sleep... sunday was planned to be mellow.
Sunday:
We had planned sunday to be a leisurly day... drive up the coast, some lunch and then sprinkles.. MMMMM sprinkles... but I am getting ahead of myself. Sunday I woke up with the sun streaming through the windows, looked at my phone saw that it was like 8:30, "cool I slept in" I thought. layed there for a while, got up took a shower, and somehow got sucked into the game that aperently everyone plays called "guild wars" Kristina spent an hour or so just showing me the basics... then we left to go drive up the coast. we made it through several of the laguna's LOL kristina showed me where her boss used to take the team to lunch with the understanding that it was a quiet lunch, no talking, where they would just listen to the sounds around them.. to me that sounded like SUCH a good idea.. anyhoo.. we made it up to newport beach, and my stomach was telling me it was time to eat. we ended up eating at Califorina Pizza Kitchen... and I even left the veggies on my pizza.. LOL after eathing it was ON TO SPRINKLES!!!!!!
SPRINKLES:
Yes it gets its own heading... Kristina told me about this place when I was still in PHX... they are cupcakes... yes thats right... cupcakes http://www.sprinklescupcakes.com/ they are the most yummy cupcakes I have ever had... Thats saying somthing, cause I am not a big cupcake person... it is like they have crack in them or somthing... LOL there is one comeing to scottsdale, that should be a good time..
Guild Wars:
The other sugnificant thing that happened while I was out in LA, is I got hooked on guildwars. http://www.guildwars.com/ yes I know yet another on-line game that I am addicted to... but this one does't have a subscription fee.. so thats good...
Monday:
Monday I got up early came home, relaxed the rest of the day, and played guild wars... LOL maybe I will come back and update this more later..
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