Thursday 22 July 2010

chicago, la, san fran, orange county and l.a again

so we arrived in chicago with ridiculous hangovers and passed out. but not before we saw the chicago blackhawks win! which means we got to see the parade on friday which was insane, the weather was hot and humid and the streets were full of people in jerseys. We got to go to our first beach in ages so that was fun and eddie mills (one of josh's friends and well my firends too) was still in Chicago (having been studying there all year) so we met up and ate the biggest burgers ever! We also saw england vs america which was just embarrassing! There were 10 of us english folk and a bar full of Americans. in the first ten minutes we were laughing but afte rthe own goal we were hanging our heads in shame and just drank our 50cent beers! Our last night we went out with a friend of a friend. A dj on the same label as our friend cassey and so were in a fancy club drinking free fancy vodka, reminded me of london nights out! it was really fun and at 5am we all went and got the best food ever! pizza!

l.a we arrived at my friend dustin's apartment to find that he had a jacuzzi on the roof, gym in the basement and a home cinema too so we were living the life! I got some really sad news whilst we were there though and as much a is like L.A having to drive everywhere and there not being a park or anywhere i could go to clear my head and decide whether or not to come back for the funeral i spent 3hours a day minimum running in the gym. which helped but it wasn't the best.
We were in downtown by the staples centre so were really close when the lakers won and saw the craaazzzyyy jumping and celebrating people. We partied in hollywood and went to venice beach and longbeach and saw all the sights but L.A is definitely not one of my favourite places..


San Fran. 8hour coach ride there. 8hour ride back. i hate greyhound and have never had such a horrible hungover journey there..i didn't drink on the way back tohugh i feared for my liver and throwing up! We had the most amazing time. i took the best ever dance classes and got to see my friend hillary from Goucher. We rode over the Golden Gate Bridge and to sausalito which is beautiful and where i did the most ridiculous fall! i was going downhill and ridiculously quickly and for some reaosn a car was on my side of the road coming towards me (i was on the right side of the road) and so i freaked and the breaks didn't work quickly enough so i tohugh it was a good idea to slam them both on and put my feet down. it worked but i kind of half ran/ half flew and cut up my hand. but the bike was fine as was i (and i was wearing a helmet) i just had a stupid hand for a while! apart form that it was sooo much fun and we had so many fun nights out and saw all the sights and i love it there so much i'm definitely going back..

orange county. i had the most amazing time with sarah (friend from middlesex last year) we went to the beach, ate great food. went to loads of bars. got a lot of free jaegger bombs from some marines and heard really good music! definately loved it there too. oh and i took a boogie box class there that was really good and got contact details of a lady who has a contemporary company so that was pretty cool...

back to the gym in l.a and we met up with some people we'd met in san fran. it was fun to just relax and run again before new orleans and miami...

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