In Search Of. . . Adventure: Weekend Highlights

In Search Of. . . Adventure: Weekend Highlights

Panorama from the Santa Monica Pier, looking at the water back to the city.

I'm just going to say, ignore my face in most of these pictures.

The end of Route 66.

My hair wasn't prepared for the humidity. It really wasn't. 

I thought the Ferris Wheel lights were really cool. It was funny. I made my dad take the picture, and he did it from his phone. This man and his wife were walking behind him. The guy saw what he was doing and went and made his wife take a picture there too.  

This the end of the pier and an actually well-lit spot. All the other places we tried this picture, I was silhouette, which was cool, but not what I wanted.

Tyra said it, FIND THE LIGHT!

A random house in the shmancy side of town. I also saw my first Tesla car.

The CBS Building,

I don't know what this building is, but it's cool, and I thought the red lights kind of added some more interest to the thing.

So, the original highlight of this weekend was supposed to be meeting Ransom Riggs, and seeing him in person. And just being that cool Well, I'm an idiot. I some how managed to get my weekends wrong. Ransom Riggs would have been 10/3. I went 10/9.

I don't know how I did it, but it's ok.

I went to the grand opening of the world first NYX cosmetics store instead. 

I went there to see Chrisspy. Apparently, I should have gotten there before the mall opened because it was crazy to see all the girls waiting to meet her.

Desi Perkins was also there, so I saw them both from far away, because lines. I don't like lines unless it's waiting for food or a roller coaster. Even, then I don't like them. If you cant tell, and you probably can't, Desi is the girl in white in the first picture and that's the lovely Chrisspy next to her. Which, by the way after watching a lot of her videos, has lost weight and looks super great.

 I do wish I could have gotten a closer picture, but oh well.

After that it was down the Pacific Coast Highway, which I tell you is a never again. Not becauese of the Highway, but because of the drive. Soo long to come down to San Deigo. My dad and I had a hard time watching the Bama game. (Bama won, by the way. ROLL TIDE!)

We stopped there and got in the water again. 

So that's all folks. Those are my weekend Highlights.

The play list will be up later today. 

As always,

In Search Of. . . Adventure: A Day in the Life Of

In Search Of. . . Adventure: A Day in the Life Of

So, some weeks ago I planned to go to the final event for Ransom Riggs' tour. He's the author of
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. It's just enough creepy for me.
The book signing, which was the final event, would take place in Los Angeles, California. I had made up my mind to go. I've never been further than Arizona, and this would provide me a reason.
Coincidentally, it also landed on the Day in the Life of theme as well, which works in both our favors since my life can be fairly boring.
Now, I didn't get to see Ransom Riggs of have him sign my copy of The Library of Souls, because I'm an idiot, but I did get to have a great time.
Since my video skills are heretofore, still lacking, I'll show you guys my day in pictures and captions.

We begin the day with my luggage and my car.

 It was only a day trip, but I had two bags anyway. All my stuff has a tendency to melt and spill or do other damaging things in my bags. I lost an entire bottle of face toner that way. So if I can help it, they go in a separate bag from anything I want to keep safe.

So then we drove.. It's roughly 8 hours from my house to LA, which isn't too bad.
Here's some scenery along the way.

Yes, it's all desert, but very few things in life beat that blue sky. It was a great day for driving. Cloudless.

So if any of you follow me on Instagram you'll recognize my car make up before and after. I like to do my make up in the car because it helps me pass the time. I wasn't driving by the way. I was the passenger. 

As I look at the picture though, I realize my make up is too orange for my face. Oh well, I'm almost out and can get new stuff anyway. 

Finally, we crossed the state line, and officially have been across America. 

And since I like scenery, although most of it looks the same. Here's some more pictures 

I finally got to see LA from far away. Not sure why I was so excited to see a city. I live in one. Maybe just because that meant I could get out of the car.

Well, after enduring traffic, we got to the hotel, which for whatever reason I didn't get a picture of front. It was the Benvonshire Motel on Beverly Ave. My dad, who was my travel buddy, found it for $99.00. It was clean, and in a really central location, especially when I thought I was going to meet Ransom Riggs.  
I'm going to rant about traffic. I hate it when there's ten cars that impede my way to work in the morning. I dread when snowbirds and school start, because I like having the road mostly to myself. In other words, I avoid traffic, when on the rare occasion we have it. I don't live in a small one-horse town, but LA was  just too much traffic for my road rage. The stop and go. I thank you, but no.
Rant over. Back to the day.

So the hotel. Clean neat little place. It had a cool little mural on the wall across the street of people taking pictures. I thought it would humorous, if I took a picture of it.

Here's the pictures I did take of the hotel. And the last one is soap. I thought it was chocolate when I first saw it. I mean come on. That wrapper with the brown? Doesn't it look like chocolate. (Although, why someone would put chocolate in the bathroom is beyond me.) 

So after we changed, Dad and I went down to the Santa Monica Pier and ate seafood. Over the years,
It was really cool to see the little fair and street performers. Plus, that is the end of Route 66. I got a little commemorative key chain to add to my burgeoning collection.

I've spent a fair amount of time on the Gulf Coast, so when I moved to an entirely land locked state, I stopped eating seafood out. I could cook the same thing at home, better for half the price. Now, going to a coastal city. I had to eat seafood.
I did. We went to Bubba Gump Shrimp, which is an idea taken from the movie Forest Gump. It was  really good food. Dad got the seafood platter, and I got the coconut shrimp. I should have taken a picture of the signs they had to get the waiter's attention. One was red, and said "Stop, Forest, Stop." When you needed them. The other was green and said "Run Forest Run." Of course, the first thing I did was knock it down, but it was a fast fix.

After that, we went down to the beach and walked in the water. At that point, I could say I have been coast to coast. Atlantic to Pacific. So much excite, my life is now complete. Not really, but that goal is.

see that's me in the water. It was dark so we couldn't go swimming, obviously. Another side note, this sand does not have bio-luminescence like some sand does. It's also brown, and actually exfoliating with out being fine powder. 

So after that, it was late and we were tired. We decided to head back to the hotel. I went to be almost right away. 

So that was a really awesome day in my life. Rather, fortuitous. ;) 

Here's a parting gift of the lights from the fair on the water. 

  

Coming Soon, weekend highlights. 

As Always,