"Travel fever"
Hawaii is coming up.. I'm so excited! Here is my updated plan A journey (I mean how I think it will be):
Wednesday: Leaving from my house around noon. Flight 3.15PM (American Airlines). Arriving to Honolulu. Probably dinner at Hard Rock Café so I can enlarge my collection of HRC Teddybears. Staying at Seaside Hawaiian Hostel Waikkiki.
Thursday: Pick-up from hostel at 7.35AM. A half day activity thing from Tom Barefoot tours. Horseback riding, some other optional activity and a lunch buffé. Back to Waikkiki. Maybe some surfing. Sunset Dinner Cruise with pick-up from hostel at 4PM. Might be so stuffed with two buffets on one day but whatever.
Friday: Sleep, running, yoga, Pearl Harbor, Hanuma Bay, moped to The North shore and Francisco in the late afternoon/evening.
Saturday: Francisco, the north part, flight 06.20PM. Arriving Hilo (Big Island) 07.11PM. Pick-up from Hilo for my hostel in the jungle (Hedonesia).
Sunday: Experience some of the jungle and the original Hawaii. Ride to the Volcano Park. Look at the Volcanos. Sleep at a Hotel (once in a while). Maybe some dinner at a local place.
Monday: Black sand beach, Kona, another visit to Hard Rock Café, not necessary for dining - I just want my teddy bear. Snorkeling
Tuesday: Early bus ride. Leaving Kona before 6AM. Spend some time in Hilo. Flight back 03.56PM to Honolulu. Arriving Honolulu at 04.45PM. Whatever I want to do will be during this night. Maybe some typical Hawaiian cuisine?
Wednesday: Going back. Departure 7.10AM and arrival Los Angeles 3.30PM
Saturday: San Diego/Mexico with Mikaela & Jennifer
Ps: Hopefully I can show you my Hawaii trip in pictures - I will do my best
Wednesday: Leaving from my house around noon. Flight 3.15PM (American Airlines). Arriving to Honolulu. Probably dinner at Hard Rock Café so I can enlarge my collection of HRC Teddybears. Staying at Seaside Hawaiian Hostel Waikkiki.
Thursday: Pick-up from hostel at 7.35AM. A half day activity thing from Tom Barefoot tours. Horseback riding, some other optional activity and a lunch buffé. Back to Waikkiki. Maybe some surfing. Sunset Dinner Cruise with pick-up from hostel at 4PM. Might be so stuffed with two buffets on one day but whatever.
Friday: Sleep, running, yoga, Pearl Harbor, Hanuma Bay, moped to The North shore and Francisco in the late afternoon/evening.
Saturday: Francisco, the north part, flight 06.20PM. Arriving Hilo (Big Island) 07.11PM. Pick-up from Hilo for my hostel in the jungle (Hedonesia).
Sunday: Experience some of the jungle and the original Hawaii. Ride to the Volcano Park. Look at the Volcanos. Sleep at a Hotel (once in a while). Maybe some dinner at a local place.
Monday: Black sand beach, Kona, another visit to Hard Rock Café, not necessary for dining - I just want my teddy bear. Snorkeling
Tuesday: Early bus ride. Leaving Kona before 6AM. Spend some time in Hilo. Flight back 03.56PM to Honolulu. Arriving Honolulu at 04.45PM. Whatever I want to do will be during this night. Maybe some typical Hawaiian cuisine?
Wednesday: Going back. Departure 7.10AM and arrival Los Angeles 3.30PM
Saturday: San Diego/Mexico with Mikaela & Jennifer
Ps: Hopefully I can show you my Hawaii trip in pictures - I will do my best
This week
Monday: Playdate between D & L, Walked to the gym & ran back, a bad headache
Tuesday: I worked in slow motion, went to Sport chalet to look @ backpacks, did a deposit @ the bank, late night - planning w. J, own HAWAII planning & finally some sleep
Wednesday: Did errands - Groceries, vegetable store, picked up shoes @ the shoe maker, bought a backpack (the newest The north face) and snorkeling equipment, had a hot pot dinner
Thursday: Spent the day with Mikaela - we did some great cooking again. Tofu in soy sauce, sun dried tomatoes, pearl like couscous and frozen vegetables cooked in a pan. Delicious. Walked on Melrose av. Returned to my place. Melted some Brie cheese with walnuts & apples served with fresh mango, melon and grapes. Bungalow club - European mixer. Morrocan appetizers, nice place, chatting with new people accomanied by the greatest darling Jennifer :-)
Friday: CATCH, running in Pan Pacific, yoga á la me, and then I watched the movie "Namesake" soo good!
Saturday: Sleep, Spectrum in Irvine (candy store, shopping & a mexican lunch @ Chipotle. Houseparty/chill at Danny's place in Costa Mesa..Not much people. Jennifer, Mikaela, Josh, Jessie, Robert, Danny, A and I. I had a good time :-D not much of sleep though.
Sunday: Brunch @ Soupplantation, visit to Newport, shopping in Beverly Connection, hanging out restless the rest of the day
Extended weekend = Monday (Memorial day): Just home all day, packing, planning and being with my host family
Tuesday: I worked in slow motion, went to Sport chalet to look @ backpacks, did a deposit @ the bank, late night - planning w. J, own HAWAII planning & finally some sleep
Wednesday: Did errands - Groceries, vegetable store, picked up shoes @ the shoe maker, bought a backpack (the newest The north face) and snorkeling equipment, had a hot pot dinner
Thursday: Spent the day with Mikaela - we did some great cooking again. Tofu in soy sauce, sun dried tomatoes, pearl like couscous and frozen vegetables cooked in a pan. Delicious. Walked on Melrose av. Returned to my place. Melted some Brie cheese with walnuts & apples served with fresh mango, melon and grapes. Bungalow club - European mixer. Morrocan appetizers, nice place, chatting with new people accomanied by the greatest darling Jennifer :-)
Friday: CATCH, running in Pan Pacific, yoga á la me, and then I watched the movie "Namesake" soo good!
Saturday: Sleep, Spectrum in Irvine (candy store, shopping & a mexican lunch @ Chipotle. Houseparty/chill at Danny's place in Costa Mesa..Not much people. Jennifer, Mikaela, Josh, Jessie, Robert, Danny, A and I. I had a good time :-D not much of sleep though.
Sunday: Brunch @ Soupplantation, visit to Newport, shopping in Beverly Connection, hanging out restless the rest of the day
Extended weekend = Monday (Memorial day): Just home all day, packing, planning and being with my host family
Regarding pix
They will come - sometime :-) at least after I've been to Hawaii! I'm sooo excited to go there!
Last weekend
Another lovely time with the girls :-) Friday night we meet up and had a three course dinner @ my superduper favorite place JOOM Bangkok Café. We ordered in food to share all together and these items got checked out:
Appetizers:
Vegetarian Spring Rolls - fresh lettuce, cucumber, basil leaves, carrot and tofu, served with peanut sauce
Satay chicken - served with peanut sauce and cucumber sauce
Coconut Shrimps - butterfly shrimp in shredded coconut batter, deep fried, served with sweet and sour sauce
Noodles:
Drunken noodle - pan fried big flat rice noodles with basil leaves, onion, peppers and chili (spicy)
Wok fried:
Prik king - green been sautéed with red chili sauce (spicy)
Special from chief:
Salmon Teriyaki - grilled salmon bed on a steam vegetable
Rice:
Brown
Dessert:
Vanilla/Mango sherbet
***
Afterwards we went for a walk and then we had a sleepover at my place. The next morning we packed lunch boxes and went to Malibu. A great day laying on the beach reading my book "Kidnapped" by Danielle Steel, a ice-cream "shake" and then a great concert @ Malibu Inn. Both Jamie Meyer and The Calling were awesome! On our way back we stopped by Taco Bell so the girls could try it out. All of us were very satisfied. Me myself took a little spicy chicken burrito -soo good! Loved it! Well well that was that day!
Sunday morning I started the morning with some yoga (love love that class) and then the whole family (except S) and I went to this very very hot host family picnic @ Autry National Center Picnic Area (Griffith Park) where from I went to Emma's house. So gigantic big even though it was not ready yet. We hanged out with her hostfamily (Emma, Emma, A german girl and I) all afternoon in the pool. Tanning, playing, volleyball and swim meets. Exhausted we went for a dinner @ Soupplantation - great! So nice being with Emma again!
Appetizers:
Vegetarian Spring Rolls - fresh lettuce, cucumber, basil leaves, carrot and tofu, served with peanut sauce
Satay chicken - served with peanut sauce and cucumber sauce
Coconut Shrimps - butterfly shrimp in shredded coconut batter, deep fried, served with sweet and sour sauce
Noodles:
Drunken noodle - pan fried big flat rice noodles with basil leaves, onion, peppers and chili (spicy)
Wok fried:
Prik king - green been sautéed with red chili sauce (spicy)
Special from chief:
Salmon Teriyaki - grilled salmon bed on a steam vegetable
Rice:
Brown
Dessert:
Vanilla/Mango sherbet
***
Afterwards we went for a walk and then we had a sleepover at my place. The next morning we packed lunch boxes and went to Malibu. A great day laying on the beach reading my book "Kidnapped" by Danielle Steel, a ice-cream "shake" and then a great concert @ Malibu Inn. Both Jamie Meyer and The Calling were awesome! On our way back we stopped by Taco Bell so the girls could try it out. All of us were very satisfied. Me myself took a little spicy chicken burrito -soo good! Loved it! Well well that was that day!
Sunday morning I started the morning with some yoga (love love that class) and then the whole family (except S) and I went to this very very hot host family picnic @ Autry National Center Picnic Area (Griffith Park) where from I went to Emma's house. So gigantic big even though it was not ready yet. We hanged out with her hostfamily (Emma, Emma, A german girl and I) all afternoon in the pool. Tanning, playing, volleyball and swim meets. Exhausted we went for a dinner @ Soupplantation - great! So nice being with Emma again!
Venice beach
Spontanious beach going is actually possible weekdays even though you're working - good homemade lunch á la Mikaela and Cold stone for dessert :) Some storytelling, beachwalk and burned backs did also go hand in hand.
Happy birthday Jonna!
So perfect timing - you should really go out and celebrate you 21st birthday here in Caifornia. If you go to a Cheesecake Factory (restaurant) and tell them that it's your birthday they will celebrate you!
Lunch with Andrea
Today I went to (I don't even need to tell you) with one girl who has been in my au-pair group all since I came here but never really spent time with. She was very nice and I enjoyed her and "her baby's" company. Then we walked to the Grove and (you never get surprised of how small LA is) we met three other au-pairs we know..Larissa, Chio and Ari.
Congratulations Jonna!
I just wanted to announce that I'm so proud of my friend Jonna who got her driver's license today. On her first try! What a feeling...
Name day
I got sooo happy yesterday when I got some beautiful Congratulations cards from my mom and grandma :) and today I got the best present for right now - Candy King candy (Karamellkungen) even though the amount was not that big I can't tell how much I enjoyed it and that is was enough :-) I eat so superhealthy here that I can't do the same amounts as I did back home anymore.. :) But it still taste soo good!!
Thank you - I love you my older Anna-Liisas :-)
Thank you - I love you my older Anna-Liisas :-)
Lunch and playdate
Spontanious meetings can be very interesting. Today's was on the earth, random and nice. Thank you Daniel for the great company, good choice of Mexican restaurant and the walk around Santa Monica just hanging out, talking about the life in general and in order to Los Angeles.
A day with M & J
9.00 AM Brunch á la Soupplantatiom
11.00 AM Yoga @ LA Fitness
Afternoon Santa Monica, Candy shop and Hooters lunch
Later afternoon Venice beach and Cold stone
Evening chill in my room
Night Jamie Meyer at "The house of Blues" such a cool place
A supergirly and very good day...You girls are awesome! I have so much fun with you guys and my abs are in soar after all laughing!
11.00 AM Yoga @ LA Fitness
Afternoon Santa Monica, Candy shop and Hooters lunch
Later afternoon Venice beach and Cold stone
Evening chill in my room
Night Jamie Meyer at "The house of Blues" such a cool place
A supergirly and very good day...You girls are awesome! I have so much fun with you guys and my abs are in soar after all laughing!
A calm Saturday
Saturday was just about going to the gym for some pilates and then I was just hanging out all they without doing anything particular than a long walk. Then it was a little bit more babysitting at night time.
Hard time
Right now D and her classmates seems to be in that bad part of being a six year old. They are starting to understand more, trying more, getting themselves in trouble and the parents starts with real punishments. For right now I have to figure out some tools for what to do when D is behaving/doing things inappropriate. I have to force her mum to help me because I'm not the parent, I'm just her au-pair. I don't accept her attitude sometimes neither her aggressive attacks but to handle the situation in the idealistic way is not always easy. You can't just scream nor spank - you have to be more proffesional these days.
It's crazy that six year olds in different ways - from kid to kid (by stories I've heard from other mums) can act such as teenagers. They haven't even started first grade. They say Mean stuff, they have a "I don't care", "however" and "come on" attitude. Their especially D's mood can go from a 10 minutes speech of how much she loves me and appreciates me to the other moment scream that I have to be fired...
It's crazy that six year olds in different ways - from kid to kid (by stories I've heard from other mums) can act such as teenagers. They haven't even started first grade. They say Mean stuff, they have a "I don't care", "however" and "come on" attitude. Their especially D's mood can go from a 10 minutes speech of how much she loves me and appreciates me to the other moment scream that I have to be fired...
Late nights, early mornings and sleepovers
Is just too much. Putting a six year old to bed 6 out of 7 nights and wake her up 7 out of 7 mornings is tiring. I don't know in what way. The mornings are easy and she is very cozy and cuddly to be with in the nights. Maybe it's the to sleepover I had in her room and I somehow didn't sleep that well. Anyways I'm exhausted and a all those time off I was supposed to have I worked. I will catch it up though. I will wait with having kids, but after soo much time with D I just love children and I'm sure I would do good parenting. If you plan having kids when you are ready and know what it is about it's just a pleasure. And tons of work...but you make it up - the better you are as a parent, the less work you usully get.
Want more
Sometimes you just want those moments to be longer, I HATE that I couldn't have more :-( or I wil but it will be the same touch. The chocolate made me just feel worse Jennifer :-( maybe that's a good sign though - I will never eat chocolate when I feel bad again! Healthy food is always better, whatever mood you are in. Food can't help for real.
Aggressive behavior
Today D was so f**kin' stressed up, crazy, wild, aggressive and everything ended up with just consequences for her, well she was fine the evening and she's normally the most immaculate girl, daughter, friend, host kid, friend, sister and student. Guess this world doesn't have anything which can be called perfect of all. Still, why does she still sometimes behave like a brat? Hurt? Throw things around her? At the same time I feel that what is the way to show anger if your neither screaming, using you body emotions or saying bad stuff? Aren't you allowed to be upset?
Love love
I love sushi and I love friends so how wonderful isn't it to have lots of both?
What would we do without cell phones?
Today I wanted to have a playdate for D. So I called R's mum D. No playdates weekdays plus that she had swimming. Next. Called another R's mum S. Chaotic afternoon, no car. No playdate. Ok. Next. The little boy J we met at the park. Yes J's nanny A picked up the phone and said yes. Well I walk to D's bus stop and when I was almost there L's mum calls and asks - are we having a playdate today? No next Monday. Do you want to have a playdate today? No, my house is full of people. Interruption. The second R's mum is there and says that she (S) brings D to her house. Well okey. No J in the park and I got some more time off. Started to walk back when the little boy E's mum calls me and asks if I'm at the bus stop. She was late. I wanted to help out and ran to the bus stop and told him and the busdriver that his mum was coming and that I could wait with him. Mum V comes and hugs me and offer me a ride. No thank you. I like walking. Love that family btw. The one with mum V. Gotta bond a little bit more with them.
Pilates, crazy bike ride, hair cut and...
... for the first time since I came here (9 months now) I felt restless and had some boring endless time. The days are longer now. Makes me want to use them more. Not "work" during the night. I want to be with Jennifer and Mikaela. I shouldn't complain and I guess I don't. I just wanted to be honest. I'm always positive the other times.
Okey, the truth - I didn't have a boring day All day. How could I, I make my days. So I went to a pilates class, met up Mikaela at the gym, she got a membership and then we somehow ride the bicycle together to my house. M was sitting on the sadel and I standed up, tramping the pedals. Dangerous? Well (A)
So at my house we had some lunch and then Mikaela showed me her master talents in cutting hair. No broken hair anymore. Feels great. You gotta do some more an other time ;-)
How are you back home, can't you write at least a few words so I now you're alive!
Ps. I will come up with pictures (sometimes ;-) )
Thai AGAIN
Come on all guys over here. Go to JOOM Bangkok café. I'm addicted to that place. The food, staff and prices are great. I'm a regular and not the only one. Tried the "Drunken noodles" today, was awesome! Everything there's great. Look forward for when Mikaela, Jennifer and I will go there for a three course dinner. The owner offered me that he could make it a little bit more fancy for us :-)
Tomorrow is Pilates with the girls and the week will be much work but also a sushi buffé AND Francisco is coming on Thursday. Got the night off and will see if I can have the morning off. Maybe I should cancel CATCH on Friday morning to or come in later, change the day or something so I get as much time as possible with him.
The 17th of May might be next weekend event. Some Swedish "burn ball" to honor Norways nationalday and then Jamie Meyers gig @ Malibu Inn. We'll see what happens, then Hawaii is coming up and I really need to start saving money or at least stop wasting :-P I want to have a great time there and have fun!
Tomorrow is Pilates with the girls and the week will be much work but also a sushi buffé AND Francisco is coming on Thursday. Got the night off and will see if I can have the morning off. Maybe I should cancel CATCH on Friday morning to or come in later, change the day or something so I get as much time as possible with him.
The 17th of May might be next weekend event. Some Swedish "burn ball" to honor Norways nationalday and then Jamie Meyers gig @ Malibu Inn. We'll see what happens, then Hawaii is coming up and I really need to start saving money or at least stop wasting :-P I want to have a great time there and have fun!
The upcoming star & Gay club
I got off Saturday night. I really wanted to. Ida called me and invited me to come for a little "pre-party" to celebrate that she's off to London on Wednesday. She has signed a contract and will make an album during the five coming weeks overseas :-) Soo happy for her. Must be very exciting to climb in her career. Anyways we came to her appartment where she hand out appetizers and non-alcoholic drinks.
Once again we all got new contacts - this city is all about networking and meeting people. Her friends and sisters were all soo sweet and the whole night was cozy and calm with some live performance. Look at Ida's myspace, she's talented AND she does something out of it. I know that the world is full of talented singers, actors yeah People but not all of them works to make a name for themselves. This girl works hard! So check: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=279341337
The night took later on place at a gay club in West Hollywood - don't ask me why. Such a great experience. We got there just about twenty minutes before the closed but it came out to be one of my best nights out. Why? Because the athmosphere was different, great, happy. The place was big, nice and full of gays - the kind of gays which are gay. Hehe, you know what I mean. Ida's sister and the two guys we went with were all so nice. So much fun to be in this town, I can't tell. All with their own talents they true to be famous by. Jennifer and Mikaela has both, in a very short period of time become very important for me and have a great value for me. Even more then my bicycle, eating out and closest living friend Emma has moved away and we don't have the time to get together and since Hanna went back to Sweden. Girls you're awesome! So much fun - we will have a great summer :-)
And Linn - I'm thrilled. When I come back from Hawaii it's less than two months til you will be here. That's nothing. We'll have so much fun together. Gotta plan a little bit soon!
Once again we all got new contacts - this city is all about networking and meeting people. Her friends and sisters were all soo sweet and the whole night was cozy and calm with some live performance. Look at Ida's myspace, she's talented AND she does something out of it. I know that the world is full of talented singers, actors yeah People but not all of them works to make a name for themselves. This girl works hard! So check: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=279341337
The night took later on place at a gay club in West Hollywood - don't ask me why. Such a great experience. We got there just about twenty minutes before the closed but it came out to be one of my best nights out. Why? Because the athmosphere was different, great, happy. The place was big, nice and full of gays - the kind of gays which are gay. Hehe, you know what I mean. Ida's sister and the two guys we went with were all so nice. So much fun to be in this town, I can't tell. All with their own talents they true to be famous by. Jennifer and Mikaela has both, in a very short period of time become very important for me and have a great value for me. Even more then my bicycle, eating out and closest living friend Emma has moved away and we don't have the time to get together and since Hanna went back to Sweden. Girls you're awesome! So much fun - we will have a great summer :-)
And Linn - I'm thrilled. When I come back from Hawaii it's less than two months til you will be here. That's nothing. We'll have so much fun together. Gotta plan a little bit soon!
A future trio?
Breakfast at Jamba juice, drank some mango/orange juice supposed to have less than 160 calories and good was it. Can't understand why they have to put Splenda in it - I mean I like the fruity taste so asked them to not put it in there :-) Mikaela had another kind, some more smoothie like.
Well, while we were waiting for Jennifer we went to Crossroads (my favorite second hand chain) and after a while we saw Jennifer driving into the parking lot next to the mini mall we were at. I guess Mikaela had such fun went I tripped and ran after Jennifer into the parking lot waving like crazy. Jennifer acted blonde and made the poor valet guy confused when he tried to figure out where she was going. She said I don't know everytime, she just wanted to park. Hehe, I interrupted and said that she didn't need to park. We chatted a little bit in Swedish and the guy mumbled are you speaking Swedish, then asked out loud "What language is that?" and we answered "Swedish" and he said "I guessed that". As always I'm interested in how he could figure that out and asked. He looked at me and sighed as I was stupid and said "Because you look Swedish" (he could have added DAH afterwards and you understand how he said it).
We jumped in to the car, headed Westfield and chatted as we've always been friends. The athmosphere was great and finally at Westfield we came to the conclusion that we all had excuses for not go shopping and that we were hungry. Jennifer had some Mexican food and we (Mikaela and I) shared a Japanese lunch. We didn't even eat all up. Then Jennifer came up with the suggestion that we should have some ice-cream. So we drove back to that mini mall and hade an impressive Coldstone. No kidding that we were stuffed after that. Very tasty. Time to say byebye. Jennifer went home, I went home and Mikaela went home. But we had some plans for the night :-D
Well, while we were waiting for Jennifer we went to Crossroads (my favorite second hand chain) and after a while we saw Jennifer driving into the parking lot next to the mini mall we were at. I guess Mikaela had such fun went I tripped and ran after Jennifer into the parking lot waving like crazy. Jennifer acted blonde and made the poor valet guy confused when he tried to figure out where she was going. She said I don't know everytime, she just wanted to park. Hehe, I interrupted and said that she didn't need to park. We chatted a little bit in Swedish and the guy mumbled are you speaking Swedish, then asked out loud "What language is that?" and we answered "Swedish" and he said "I guessed that". As always I'm interested in how he could figure that out and asked. He looked at me and sighed as I was stupid and said "Because you look Swedish" (he could have added DAH afterwards and you understand how he said it).
We jumped in to the car, headed Westfield and chatted as we've always been friends. The athmosphere was great and finally at Westfield we came to the conclusion that we all had excuses for not go shopping and that we were hungry. Jennifer had some Mexican food and we (Mikaela and I) shared a Japanese lunch. We didn't even eat all up. Then Jennifer came up with the suggestion that we should have some ice-cream. So we drove back to that mini mall and hade an impressive Coldstone. No kidding that we were stuffed after that. Very tasty. Time to say byebye. Jennifer went home, I went home and Mikaela went home. But we had some plans for the night :-D
Mexicali
Went up to "The Valley" Friday night to somehow get away from Hollywood. The traffic was really bad and one bus had broke down, however it took me two hours to get there from my house. I'm happy I at least got there. We started up with a dinner at Mexicali, a loud, big, kind of fancy but trendy restaurant. I took a Fajita salad and ate half of it..the rest I brought home as always - Nowadays. We had a little dessert we shared, was heavy :-S Afterwards we walked to Mikaela's "comfie" house where her host dad showed us the part of the tv-show "Super nanny" caught at their across-the-street neighboor. Pretty cool. We started to watch a movie but got tired right on and went to bed. I haven't slept that good for about a week. Enjoyable!
A brief summary of the weekdays
Highlights
Monday: I made a creamy mushroom bulgur everybody in this house loved! Pilates class cancelled. Did some other workout instead
Tuesday: Bodyworks á la LA Fitness. Good class, good instructor.
Wednesday: Went to my last Santa Monica College class with Chio and we had lunch at JOOM's. Kung Pao chicken is really good.
Thursday: Lunch at Bangkok Cafe (again) w. Mikaela, went to a vitamine store and whole foods (tried the Goji berries, richest in antioxidants), nightmare afternoon/evening/night. D burned her finger on the glue gun while doing trash project. My bad by letting her use it herself. Have never seen such a 6 hour drama of a little burned finger. But the night was hysterical crying, screaming and ice water. Well around ten o'clock she fell asleep smiling in my bed.
Fri"Day": Early wake-up, cozy morning with D. CATCH, phone call to mum (LOVE YOU, thanks for you're advices), D's bus was 45 minutes late, Doctors appointment for D's finger. We're so bonded, such fun to be just me and her at the doctor. It feels so special for both of us. After we came home she also made the whole drama easier by saying, it was not you're fault (I've said it was my mistake to let her use the glue gun and earlier she agreed with that and blamed me) it was mine. "I knew the glue was hot - but I just wanted to feel". So I took some advantage of that and said don't worry about it. Maybe it was both's fault.
Bye bye Hanna
Sunday morning and we headed Anaheim after a great brunch @ Soupplantation. It was hot, then I mean hot. We drove 70 miles/hour (about 130 km/h) and it felt like a hair dryer on maximum was blowing on us. Seriously we felt like we were going to die when we saw the fire. A car in front of us was in fire and they closed the freeway for a short period of time. We needed to put the sufflett on and just be patient. We survived and reached Hanna's cousin's house where we got some pizza, drinks, ice-cream and in-the-Swedish way cake together with a good company. Hanna and I stayed there the whole afternoon chatting with the people there (almost just Americans) and looking in the scrap book Hanna got. The best byebye gift ever. After some more ice-cream, and some good come and do this, stay here, work here offers (for me) it was time for me to take the train back to LA and say bye to Hanna :-( Last time to see her for months, kind of sad after our reunion here and all our great memories. So we gave each other a hug and the time had come. I stepped up on the train and "The OC time á la Hanna" was over. Everything felt different. Someone close had left, returned to the old life which gave me a hint of that my going home time is coming up, getting closer. It's still almost for months til I'll be home, but just three until my last day in this family, the life I've lived for such a long time.
Malibu & Melrose
So the day after we went to the Walpurgis event and the late bedtime we actually woke up around 7-8am. Don't ask me why - must be the incredible sun. Anyways we ate some healthy (standard) breakfast, Jennifer went to her bus and I got a ride with my hostdad B to Santa Monica. In S.M I waited and waited until Hanna and Anna finally came and picked me up. The subject for the very very hot day was a trip to Malibu - so there we go, we head Malibu, stop at a grocery store on our way (with the two very nice cabriolets, best choice in California) and then we reach Malibu. It was not easy to pick out a beach but after a while we just picked one, parked at the wood-like parking lot, far away from the beach and went down. I had forgotten my towel so I decided to lay down in the burning hot sand. It was ok though. However it wasn't the best beach we'd chosen and it was just too hot so we decided to leave after just an hour. Then it came - the big surprise. We had gone to a beach which main business was the dining so we had to pay 25 bucks (ea car, we were two) for that one hour long park in the woods, not even exploated. We thought that was insane but accepted the fact, decided to get a validation and went down to the beach again (a nightmare walk in the appr. 40 degree Celcius heat.) So to get a validation (so we could pay just $3) we needed to buy something for at least 20 bucks. Shoot. So we wanted some ice-cream, is that possible on a beach? Nope, not if you don't have a table (1 hours wait time), some food to-go? Super expensive. Drinks? Not 21 and driving. Anyways we bought some drinks anyways. I bought a good stuff Piña Colada and my friends some coke. So somehow we got the two parking tickets validaded and payed $26 instead of $50 and we got some drinks (mine was great :-P) and headed home (my house). We ended up the day with walking on La Brea (bought a jacket and a RL shirt from Buffalo Exchange) to Melrose. On Melrose we had a dinner at Lala (Argentinian restaurant) and afterwards we kept on walking on Melrose in all the great vintage and second hand stores. I also found my new favorite one, Cross roads, where purchased a with cute purse. We went home and Anna took her car back to Woodland hills and we (Hanna and I) started to watch a movie before we went to bed. A good day.
