California

This past weekend I took off to California with a girl from work, her boyfriend, one of her old friends from her mission, and a girl from her ward. I had never done anything like this before, but it was a blast! We drove to California on Thursday night, taking shifts as driver and shotgun.
On Friday, once we got to L.A., we played at Newport Beach all day long. I fell asleep on the beach and got really sunburnt. On my armpits! Who has ever gottn burned on their armpits? Well, it's a terrible experience. Friday night we went up to a state park and camped out where we got in trouble with a fire ranger girl (it was hilarius.
On Saturday we spent the whole day at Six Flags. A guy, Chad, that Lisa (my friend from work) knew showed up with a girl that he had gone to high school with. (She was super annoying, but nice, so I had to be nice to her.)It was a super fun, very exhausting day. That night we went to Chad's house and stayed with him and his parents. Their house was so nice and the backyard was just ridiculous. The next day was Sunday and we went with Chad to his singles' ward but left before the third block because we still had to go to our hotel and get other stuff done - or so we said; truthfully we just couldn't handle the single's there anymore.
On Sunday night we drove around Hollywood and saw Rodeo Drive and Hollywood Blvd and Sunset Blvd. DOwn Sunset we somehow got behind a van that said CORONER and we were all intrigued by it until we saw it turn down an alley that was filled with our cop cars. Fun stuff.
On Monday morning we woke up super early and went down to CBS Studios and attended a taping of The Price is Right. It was a lot different than you see on TV. The stage and auditorium were tiny and there were always at least twelve people on the stage just out of camera view. Rich Fields kinda seems like an egotistical d-bag, but that was just my opinion - I'm sure he is in fact a nice, nice man. (Ahem).
Then we made the drive back to Utah and got in just before 3 am. Lots of funny little things happened and I made new friends, but i wouldn't be able to do it any justice if I tried to descibe it at all, so suffice it to say, I had one of the best weekends of my life!