Tuesday, June 13, 2006 ~ NBC & Warner Brothers

hey hey!
Had a tour at NBC and another one at Warner Brothers today!
At NBC I got to see one of the sets for Days of Our Lives....they were filming in the other one :P
And I got to see Jay Leno's car...one of them ;) And I looked into the set for Jay Leno show...! He wasn't there though... but he was around :P~

We were supposed to go to ABC, but the guy cancelled last minute, so we went to Warner Bros instead! We went on the same VIP tour as yesterday...
Today it was with another guide and I got to see some new stuff! I saw the jungle from the episodes of E.R. when Dr. Carter was in Kongo! That was awesome!!! I saw many other places where they had filmed Third Watch... I even pointed some out to the guide, that she didn't know ;)
And I saw the spot they used as the doors to LAX where Hilary Duff got in to a cab in A Cinderella story :)
Oh, and did I tell you that we got to see a commercial shoot yesterday, when they were filming it...!
It was so... cheesy!!! :P haha
But it's been a fun day anyway... And I am, again, very very tired!! :P~
It hit me at 3pm today... YAWN! ;)

Well, I'm gonna go to bed now...another loooong day tomorrow, with an early start...
But on Thursday, I get to sleep in and chill! YAAAY :D
Later peeps...

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 ~ Universal Studios Theme Park

Good evening!
Well well.. I went to sleep at around 1:30am today...Yawn...
And then I woke up at 6am an realized that I had an hour and a half more to sleep, and THAT was very nice... Then I woke up to my awful alarm at 7:30am...
Got up, got dressed, ate breakfast wrote post cards :P
And we left at around 8:30... We went by the post office and I finally sent all of my post cards...
Bah...13!!
Next time I'm going somewhere, I'm not telling anyone, that way they won't expect a card ;)

Anyway, then we went to Universal Studios in Hollywood! :D
Went in to the theme park... Went straight to the Studio tour, and that was very nice...! Though, I was sitting on the right side in the tram and everything came on the left side, of course...
But I got to see sets from "A princess' diary", "Desperate Housewives", Jurassic Park props, and a bunch of other stuff and cool effects!
They even took us in to a studio (that's for the tour) where you could experience an earthquake. It was cool.... if I can put it like that... :/ The effects were awesome anyway! :P~

Then we went around on some rides/shows... The first one we did was "Back to the future - the ride" It was a very cool simulator!
Then we went to "Jurassic Park - The ride"...it was a flume ride thingy, that took you around in a jungle.. and then a high hill which we swooped down on...getting away from T-rex :)

Then we did "The revenge of the mummy - the ride". It was really cool! It was a very cool roller coaster! and it went VERY fast! in a cave... Really cool! and very cool special effects!

Then we went to Terminator 2: 3D.. That was quite cool too....and I'm amazed by the special effects, it's so awesome!

THEN! We went to eat...
And it was so funny when we were going out the gates... We asked the guard if we could go out and eat and then come back.. and get a stamp or something...
And he looked so serious at us, and pointed at me and Elizabeth and said "the can go"...
And Daryl looks confused and say "just them?!"
And then the guy goes "Yeah we only let women out today, it says so at the sign just around the corner"...and Daryl looked so confused and he went to check! :P~
And the guard looked at us and did the "shhh" sign.. and smiled...
Oooh! When Daryl found out that it wasn't true...? Oh! He was furious...was about to get in the guy's face! ;) He was so hungry and that guard was making it take longer to get to the food... Oooh, you don't do that with Daryl :P~ Mahaha...
We went to Hard Rock Café at the City walk! :D It was open today!
It was so cool!
I ordered a chicken sandwich and a chocolate shake... And OMG!! Knott's Berry farm's chocolate shake is like..you know...YUCK! compared to that one! And McDonald's...I'm not even gonna talk about...
Hard Rock café's Chocolate shake was world class! YUM!!! Hollywood rocks!
...And the chicken was nice too... ;)
If I lived in Whittier... I would soooo go to Hard Rock Café in Hollywood - JUST to get that shake...!
Anyhow...

Then we went in to some stores at the city walk... and I got 6 really cool fridge magnets! :D
Then we went back inside to the theme park.
We checked some more souvenir stores, and I got a Universal Studios t-shirt...

After that we went to see "Shrek 4D"... Sort of a 4D simulator... The chairs were moving...and when the donkey sneezed...they sprayed water at us... very....refreshing... :P~
It was really cool!! Still amazed by the special effects!

Then we were talking about going home... But we decided to go and see "Waterworld" the show. It was freakin' amazing!!!
And the cast was really cool:
Brian Collins (Desperate Houswives, Charmed, Not another teen movie)
Cindy Thompson (Man on the moon, Profiler, Scorpion king)
R.C Ormond (Dodge Ball, The time machine, El Salvador)
Patrick Gallaw (CSI: Miami, The Dicision, Gangland)
Shaun Loeser (General Hospital, Stir of echoes, Santasia)
Casey Hendershot: American Family, Basketball of mice and men)
Spencer Stone (Opening cast, Universal studios, Japan)
Zac Henry (Torque, Dust to Glory, Veronica Mars)

Some known faces, you know :) And it was an awesome show! I'm glad we went on it before we went home...!
And then we had about an hour in traffic "stop and go"... I spent alot of time trying to find good music... Bah! :P~
Since we got home, we've been chillin'... and Suz came over with the pictures from Kathryn's baccalaureate.. Those were fun to see!
And now I'm getting finger cramps, and I was just attacked by a very disgusting June bug. AAAH!!! ...You know...!
So.. Have fun, bye, bye!

Thursday, June 15, 2006 ~ Relax > Original McDonald's > Over the hedge

Hello-loo!
Oh my WOW! Sleeping in this morning? I needed that real bad! Uh huh! :)
Okay, so I still woke up at 9am...but I could stay in the bed! Yay! I was home alone...and I didn't have ANYTHING to do! First time in two and a half weeks!
So I just stayed in bed, for about an hour...half asleep... then I got up.. Took a shower.. Had some cantaloupe for breakfast...watched "Raise your voice"... Packed my new bag...which now is full to the max by the way...and I still haven't packed everything.. Yaaay - ME!

Aaah well...
Daryl and Elizabeth got home at about 1:30 I think, and we went to the original McDonald's in Downey! It was neat. I wasn't hungry, but DAMN! Daryl sure was!
A big coke, (big to me anyway, don't know what size it was) french fries, one Big Mac and one Big n' tasty!
I tasted some of the chocolate shake that Elizabeth got, and it was good. Better than McDonald's in Sweden anyway...but NOTHING, I repeat - NOTHING! beats Hard Rock café's ;) Yum yum!

Then we went home and chilled...for quite some time..!
And tonight, at 8:05pm we went to see "Over the hedge". It was soooo cute. I really liked that one. Totally recommend it!
"Wanna help me find my nuts?" ...Tempting, ey ?
"We eat to live.... They live to eat!"

Anyway, I just got back, and yes, I am getting quite tired. It's hard, doing nothing!
And besides I'm getting up early tomorrow to go to Norco again, and go horseback riding at Melissa and Jonathan's house...!
Then I'm going to a baseball game with Suz in the evening! It'll be fun.

So...yup! nighty night folks!
Sleep tight!

Friday, June 16, 2006 ~ Norco > car break-down > Angels vs. Padres

Hey now, how's it going?
I have a major head ache and I am very very very tired! Why? Well this was my day:

Heard a knock in my door at 7:30am...Elizabeth came with the phone... Someone called for me...
And it turned out to be my big brother... Which I totally didn't recognize cause he has caught on a Gothenburg accent... I had to ask who the hell was calling me!
Anyway.. Even though I mentioned to the dork that stuff are cheaper over here "is there anything I can get you?"... like 1 ½ weeks ago... He said ''no, I don't think so.. I'll let you know''... Apparently he had been talking to my mother and she made him realize that Levi's are cheap over here... So what he wanted at 7:30am? Levi's jeans :P~
"Oh, I totally forgot about the time difference".... My ass... ;)
Aaaanyway...I told him I'd try...

Then I couldn't go back to sleep so I logged on to MSN and talked to Johan, which was very very nice...
Then I got up and got dressed at around 8:45am... ate breakfast.. and at about 9:20 we were on our way to Norco!
We got there in about 45 minutes, which apparently was very good...! :P~
The horses got prepared...I talked to Melissa a bit... then her mother came by too! :)
I don't know what time we left... But Melissa, her mother and I went for a ride. I got Marty again, and he is just the sweetest horse! :)

We went to a saloon/restaurant thing... I think it took about 30 minutes to get there.. And we 'parked' our horsed outside, and Jonathan, Steven, Elizabeth and Daryl came in the car, and we went inside to eat lunch!
I had the best chicken burger I've ever had. And 2 huge glasses of water! It was so freakin' hot out there.. Suz guessed on about 110 F! (About 43 C!)
It was a great lunch... and when we were done, we got up on our horses and went back to the house! :) That went alot faster cause the horses knew they were going home and were very excited :P

I had great fun out there! Marty is a wonderful horse!
When we got back we showered the horses and talked for a while...and I think Elizabeth, Daryl and I went back at around 3pm...!
When we left the freeway... Daryl wanted to take that exit... Elizabeth had been saying over and over that we should put more gas in...!
But Daryl... 'the easy going'... said "naah, it'll be okay.. we can put more gas in on a station up ahead"... And as we pulled up to an inter section (spelling?) and the red light turned on...we stoppped the car...and it died...! :P~
It totally died... didn't make a sound when he turned the key or anything..!
Daryl called Mike...and he was gonna come to our rescue... and "just for the heck of it... Bring some gas, dad"...
Elizabeth also called Jan, and she came to pick me up so we could go to the mall..!
We waited for about 40 minutes in that gazing sun... (100 F! - 38 C!) Jan and Mike came at about the same time...

Soooo, I went with Jan, and we went to KOHL'S to go look for Levi's jeans (am I the best sister in the world or what?!) ;) I also found some more gifts... :P
And now to the fun part... My other bag is full! I mentioned this yesterday... But I re-packed it a bit, and now I can fit some more! Taking the air out of my football that I got helped alot ;)
I also went to Shoe City to buy one more pair of Converse. Very nice!
Then we went home... and I started re-packing again... and I can actually fit most of it! :D ...I hope...!
Well.. a bit delayed... so I didn't get a chanse to take a shower.. BAH! Suz got to the house at around 6:45 (the time she said was 6-6:30...) ;)
And we were on our way to the LA Angels vs. San Diego Padres baseball game at Anaheim Stadium!
And yes, I have been illegal with a CSI today, maha! :P~
We scalped! (spelling?!)
Meaning, we didn't have tickets, and it was sold out... But some people choose to buy season tickets of some kind and that they sell for like twice the price or so outside the stadium...!
We found a guy who sold the tickets for $30 each... and they were really good seats.
We needed to get money from an ATM though...but the guy totally trusted us with the tickets, which I found totally weird!! But we did come back and gave him his money.

Suz's friend (name) and her date was also with us..! It was very nice!
I have been introduced to baseball and I really like it! It was alot of fun!
Unfortunately the Angels lost to Padres by 1... so that was a bummer...
As an ending of the night, they had the most amazing fireworks I have ever seen! Even better than New Year's!!!
They had some that turned in to Smiley faces, they were so cool! But the entire show was awesome!!!

We got home at about 10:45pm I think...and I pretty much went straight to the trailer...
I am so tired right now... and this was supposed to be a short entry...
Oh well... Hope you enjoied the reading :P~ I have finger cramps!
Nighty night!

Saturday, June 17, 2006 ~ Bye bye Cali...

Hey people..
I never went to the beach today... Suz never called though, don't know what's up... but I just wouldn't do well on the beach today...!
I have been un-packing and re-packing all my stuff, and you won't believe how much more space I found...still not enough really...
Cause both bags are full to the MAX! I seriously don't know what I'll do if they are gonna search my bag at LAX...!
They will go through EVERYTHING and un-pack EVERYTHING...then I'm gonna have to do it all over again... freakin' hell, if they do it!
....But ey! Let's stay positive... :/

I woke up at around 9am this morning...And I was soooo incredibly tired! It was like I hadn't slept at all! But I got up... shower...get dressed...go eat a bunch of cantaloupe and honey dew - Yumm! :)

Then Elizabeth and I went to Target to get a sudoku book and more locks for my bag.

When we got home I started un-packing and re-packing...and re-packing...and re-packing...
It went pretty darn good...but as I said; full to the MAX!

Theeeeen... Heck I don't know what I have been up to today! I am so tired!! I have not been a fun company today! :P~

But I know Elizabeth's friend Holly came over cause she wanted to "look at the Swede" ;) Hehe.. Yeah, anyway, She was cool.
And after that Elizabeth and I were gonna go look for fridge poetry... but we didn't find any... And I decided to get Vern the turtle as well... cause he was just so cool...and the 5 dollars go to the children's hospital, so it was a nice gesture at the same time :P
And I got a pair of socks... I know I have a pair or two...somewhere... in the bag... and I am SO NOT going through it again... So I got a new pair ;)

Then I actually got everyone, except Elizabeth of course, to agree on that I was gonna take them out for dinner tonight...
I knew Elizabeth was gonna say flat out no no no and NO! So... I went to Mike..and he was all for it ;)
So we decided to go to Hometown Buffe again! Daryl had never been there...so it was nice for him aswell :P~

We went there and we didn't really have to wait in line which was nice...!
The cashier thought I was from Poland cause my ID looked Polish :P~

The food was really good! And for dessert I had some really really good cheese cake. I did not like that before, but THAT was yumm! ;)


Then we went to see Cars! I thought it was a cute movie, but I probably would've liked it more if I knew more about cars...like...saaaaay the Wantlands!? :P

Then..OMG!! There were SO many kids in that movie theatre...That just would not shut up!
This one kid behind us came up between the seats trying to talk to us, and then he would scream from the top of his lungs....along with the rest of them... :P

Then we got home a while ago...
But NOW! I'm gonna finish packing and go to BED! Yesssss....!
Sooo, Nighty Night!
Bye bye Cali, I've had a blast!

Love,

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