Wednesday April 30
So today we left
disneyland
and headed to LA
In the morning, before we had to check out, my dad got up early, and walked down to hertz to pick up our rental car. While he was gone, my mom and I grabbed some breakfast, and then made sure everything was packed up, and then we checked every drawr and under the bed to make sure we weren't forgetting anything. We werent so then we waited for my dad. He got back, we checked out and headed for LA! WHOOP WHOOP! So we drove down, and didn't run into too much traffic, and headed to Olvera Street. For those who don't know what it is, it is sort of like China town, only mexican. It has a street with some vendors/ mexican fastfood, and shops. There is also one of the oldest houses in LA which is kinda cool The old house is called the "Pueblo" Which I don't quite get. My spanish teacher says Pueblo means town, so I am not sure why this one house is called that? Hmm. LOL. We find a parking space, and then head over to Olvera street. First things first, we get a churro. These are the best churros in the world!!!!! So then we do some shopping. They have some kind of cool, traditional mexican stuff. There are a lot of stands, and a couple shops. I think all we ended up with was two bracelets (a birthday present for my mom from me, her birthday was april third, so I was a little late, but she told me to wait untill california, lol) They are pretty, and supposed to bring luck. My moms is triple luck and supposed to just be SUPER LUCKY and mine is the humming bird, which is supposed to bring me luck in love
. We also baught these catholic saint charms. My mom got Saint Christopher, who protects travelers, and I got one with Saint Francis on one side and Saint Anthony on the other, one of these is supposed to protect your pets, not sure which though. At the same store I baught some finger traps. LOL. They had other cool things, such as paper flowers that I would have baught if they wouldn't get crushed in my suitcase. SO then my parents got a couple tacos, and then baught candy. Me and my mom got watermelon hard candy filled with chlli powder, which was soooo hot, and my mom got a lime which everything was scooped out and only the peel was left, and then it was stuffed with coconut. I got a sesame seed brittle, and my mom got a peanut/pumpkin seed/sesame seed brittle, and my dad didn't want anything. Dud. LOL. I then baught a grab bag with a toy in it for 1 dollar. My toy was a squishy ball filled with water, which I annoyed my mom with endlessly! So then we headed out. We drove to the LA farmers market. First things first, I headed to Three Dog Bakery, to pick up my puppies some souvenier dog biscuts, and then my parents went to the crepe place to get crepes suzette. While they were waiting for their crepe, I went to a bakery and baught this AMAZING meringue cookie. It was meringue, with chocolate chips and walnuts in it. YUMMM! I am so going to re create this one!!! So then they ate their crepe, and I had my cookie
and we went to look around. Now, I haven't mentioned it yet, but one of my goals this trip was to find a Pinkberry. For those of you who have not tried the amazing pinkberry/ have no idea what it is (It is not a fruit!
) it is a frozen yogurt shop. It is kinda similar to coldstone creamery (which I don't really like) but it is frozen yogurt, and you can pick toppings. They had three different types of frozen yogurt which were green tea, coffee, and vanilla. They gave us a sample of all of them, they were all good, but I decided on the vanilla. The topping I picked was fresh Pineapple. OMG IT WAS SO GOOD! It is my new favorite food, and they only have them in NY and CA. BUT YUMMMMMMMM. I want one now! LOL. SO I was so happy to find a pink berry
and it exceeded my expectations
So then we went to have lunch. I am seeing a theme for today, EATING!!!! My mom got korean barbeque, me and my dad got Gumbo. I got shrimp and crab gumbo, which was good but SOOOO Spicy. My dad got chicken and andouille sausage. I got a side of vegetarian collard greens
. SO then we headed over to buy a fruit plate to take to the hotel, and headed out. Now we headed over to our hotel, the days inn. It was OK. They had underground parking, I hate parking garages, they freak me out,
SO we checked in, and you needed a key for everything. The parking garage, the elevator, doors, and to get to the pool. LOL. So we got in the elevator, which was soooo tiny, and I hate elevators, so I really hated that. So then we looked in our room, it was SUPER SMALL and smelled gross. Plus, it had no refrigerator. GRR. Oh well. We went down, and got our luggage, and got in that Teeny elevator again. This time it got to our floor and the doors didn't open. EEEEEKKKK. But then we waited, then pushed the button, and they finally opened. THis probably took us 15 seconds, but to me, who has elevator phobia, it felt like forever!
So we got setttled, then headed out to explore LA. We drove around beverlly hills, and then headed to RODEO DRIVE
. Sigh, so much beutiful clothes. I almost baught a pair of Zebra striped Coach shoes on sale for FIFTY DOLLARS, but then my dad reminded me that we are heading to an outlet mall on friday, so I might want to save my money, and I did. But they were cute! I liked rodeo drive a lot. Then we headed to Pinks Hot Dogs. MY Dad LOVES this place. I think it is SO SO, but since I don't eat meat, it isn't much to choose from. The last time we were there, about 3 years ago, I got a veggitarian hot dog, which was just gross. I love all that vegetarian fakey meat stuff, such as veggie burgers, corndogs, chiken nuggets, veggie sausage patties, etc. But that was just gross, and so I didn't want to try it again. Oh, and this is off topic, but for any vegetarian out there, an amazing thing is the Morningstar Farms vegetarian Buffalo wings. MMMMMMMMMMMMMM even my meat eating mom loves them!!!! So then we ordered. Both my parents got some sort of hot dogs, and I got nachos with cheese and jalepenos. They put TONS of jalepenos on so I had to pick most of them off, and a lot of cheese, but they were really good. I couldn't finnish my whole order of them! So after that we headed back to the hotel, and if we did anything else interesting that night, I cannot remember.
My last update! 
And oh my gosh, once we got back to seattle at about 10:00, it seemed so cold! LOL. Better put on that sweatshirt...
