Sunday, November 29, 2015

LA LA Land

Hey beautiful people!

OK this post is going to be long and tiring to type because I'm blogging from my phone- I don't feel like sending files to my computer and then downloading them.



Alright. So on the 13th of November, my friend Ella and I traveled to California. Yes, Friday the 13th! It had been a long week, and day for us; traveling almost 4 hours made it all tiring. We arrived Cali to the Paris attack news. *God bless them*



We arrived Los Angeles at approximately 5pm, and the drive to our apartment downtown was 1hour 30mins. L.A. traffic is no joke. Still better than Lagos traffic. 
We found our AirBnB apt the day before traveling because the first one we had canceled on us on Thursday. So after work on Thursday, I did a quick search and found our hostess, "A". It was my first time using the site. I'm usually in a hotel or at a family/ friend's home when I visit a city. Ella on the other hand has had a few experiences with AirBnB. 

When we got to L.A., we immediately went to look for food, after which we decided to take a nap (bad idea) before going to party at Playhouse nightclub. We overslept! I woke up at 2:30am, Ella was still in dreamland. We had also purchased our party tickets (S/O to our bank for refunding our money!). 

Saturday morning.
We set out to go to Hollywood, because honestly speaking, there isn't much to see downtown of LA besides the 1 million and one jewelry stores at every corner. We also walked past some music/movie/photo sets on the streets. 
So we took the Redline from 7th and Metro to Hollywood and Vine. There we walked the Walk of Fame and then got to tour the city via Prime Time Hollywood Tourz. 



We started the tour down Mulholland dr, where we saw the homes of Justin Timberlake, Ice tee, Gwen Stephanie, Katty Perry, Bruno Mars, Eddie Murphy, and others. 
We climbed up to the top where we could see the Hollywood sign and the beautiful city! 

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To continue the tour, we drove through Beverly Hills where we drove past Jackie Chan's home, and Manny Pacquio's (P.Diddy's old home). 


Jackie Chan's home
We then drove through Bel-Air, passed Micheal Jackson's home, Rodeo Drive where they have the most expensive stores.