Day 47- LA Livin' like a celebrity

After the terrible flight experience with Honolulu Airlines, I was overjoyed to see Jenni's white KIA pull up in front of terminal 2 packed with all the girls, luggage and supplies for our night in LA.

"OH my god!" "I MISSED YOU" and "How are you"s rung through the air as we hugged and greeted each other after the long overdue reunion. We managed to figure out a way to fit my oversize suitcase into the already packed car as we gossiped a mile a minute.

Trisha was glowing telling everyone about her new boyfriend, but still keeping all the juicy interesting details a mystery. Maureen was smiling and taking it all in saying, "Teggers, I missed you," in her soft voice while all I could notice was her giant diamond shining from her finger. Molly was in true form and looked fabulous as always, dressed in her fashionable designer clothes while directing Jenni the route to the Mondrian via GPS. Jenni was focusing on driving, but kept on bursting out in laughter when one of our many outragous comments came about.

We made it to the hotel and had the car valet parked, while Mercedes, BMWs, and other expensive cars were pulling up next to us in the KIA. We could tell that this was going to be an amazing experience.

Once I entered the room, I was shocked at how beautiful it was. Two twin beds against the opposite wall with white down comforters, a huge white designer couch on the opposite wall in front of a pattern designed table equipped with supplies such a champagne bucket all ready to get the party started. The most amazing feature about the room was the mirror. The mirror was huge and double sided, and looked like something out of Alice and Wonderland. One side of the mirror actually had the TV inside of it as well! So, with a click of a button we could watch TV through our mirror in our posh room overlooking Sunset Boulevard.

We turned on the music and cracked open the wine while we each took turns showering and getting ready for our 8:30 reservation at celebrity hotspot Koi. Champagne, white wine, and red wine made us get a bit wild and the PG 13 conversations soon had turned to a bit of adult advisory content. We also went a bit crazy with my new Nikon CoolpixL100 camera and took endless photos all over the room... although some of those photos I hope will never be discovered.

I was late per usual, so Trisha and I agreed to take a seperate taxi while the other girls headed to the restaurant ahead of us. We were seated right away in the center of Koi, and the whole time I kept my eyes peeled for

celebrities.

A friendly, beautiful blond waitress greeted us and took our drink orders and made recommendations. Since the restaurant is asian themed cuisine there were plenty of great sushi dishes and alot of interesting seafood options. We decided to share the food we ordered, and all of us chose a couple things that sounded good. The food was absolutely amazing, and we had devoured it within minutes of every dish being dropped at the table.

Koi was a complete success, and we all were so happy to be reunited and having such a great dining experience.

We made it back to our hotel after dinner and couldn't stop laughing. Although, the only married one of the girls is Maureen, Trisha, Molly, and I were giving her marital advice that would probably only lead problems. Molly also had a dress that was at times very revealing, so we had good times taking risque photos and playing with a black plastic hand art piece that we found in the room.

By about 11 pm we finally left our room and headed out to the bar in our hotel Sky Bar. It was a pool side bar that was packed with people sipping drinks and chatting poolside. Trisha and I got into chatting and attempting to ignore a creepy guy that kept buying us drinks, and before we knew it 2am had already rolled around and it was time to head back to our room.
We stayed up till about 4am laughing and joking with eachother until we finally managed to fall asleep. At 8:30 we amazingly woke up to a beautiful day on Sunset Boulevard.

The other girls were starving, but I had serious stomach problems due to shoving my face with chips and hummus and the prior tequila based drinks courtesy of creepy Raul from Sky Bar.

Molly, Trisha and I though were still game on to keep the party going, and we decided to mix the remaining champagne and orange juice and get a nice start to the day going.

Hmmmm booze for breakfast? Maybe not the best of ideas, but definitely not the first time for us. So after we had finished off the champagne, we started on the red wine. By this time it was nearing our 12 checkout, and we were quite buzzed. I convinced the girls that we should at least spend some of the afternoon pool side, since we were staying at such a nice hotel anyway.

We checked our bags in and headed to the pool. Molly and I changed into our swimsuits and ordered some drinks and food, while the other girls read the latest gossip magazines and suntanned.

Molly was chatting with some guy from New York at the other end of the pool, and I was getting bored, so I decided to jump in and splash her. It wasn't really a cannonball jump, but it was more a starfish of sorts, but it did suprize Molly and make all the stuck up guests at the pool a bit surprized as well.

By this time it was getting late in the afternoon, and we were going to head back to Riverside that evening, so we decided to go to another celebrity dining hot spot Iv

y, for our last LA experience.

We parked the car a few streets down from Melrose and walked about a half mile to Ivy.

"Oh my god! That is Jessica Simpons hair dresser!" I screamed and pointed as we passed the beautiful Ken Paves salon.

The other girls were less impressed, and continued walking, but it may just have been due to hunger. As we walked along the streets of LA, I was actually a bit shocked at how peaceful and clean it was. I had been so used to living in Korea where everything is busy and packed with people, but actually LA felt very relaxing and spacious in comparison.

We arrived at Ivy just as they had switched the menu to dinner. Although, most of the time people eat there for lunch, we just decided it would be more for the experience and we didn't want to search for a different dinner spot.

The menu was mostly american classics a bit on the pricey side. Chicken, meatloaf, fish, and salads were some of the things that caught my eye but I ended up ordering an the enchilada dish and the famous Ivy Giblet for my beverage.

We were quite exhausted and had a good dinner, but all agreed that Koi was better. I did really like Ivy, but it would be better for more of an early afternoon joint. All in all, it was a great night spent in LA and a great time with my some of my favorite people!