My Trip To LA

On Friday I left for LA with my roommate and members from the Pinoy Ako Club (PAC). We went down to LA for a fall retreat and to help support the API (Asian Pacific Islanders) Club from Stan State. The API Club was participating in Friendship Games at CSU Fullerton and we thought it would be fun to go and support them as well as see what the games were like. We left at about 11:00 P.M. on Friday and finally made it to the hotel at around 6:00 P.M. We then went to the Orange Outlets and walked around and played some games in Dave & Buster's. We had a lot of fun but had to go back to the hotel because we had a long day ahead of us. We finally went to bed at around midnight. My roommate and I woke up at 7:00 A.M. so we could have time to wake ourselves up and eat breakfast before we left at 8:45 A.M. We ate and got ready and left to go to CSU Fullerton. When we got there, it was about 9:00 A.M. and all the schools were still getting checked in, so guests could not go in yet. We decided to explore the campus but when we were done not all the schools had been checked in, so we went to Starbucks. When we came back we could get checked in and was able to watch the roll call which was all the schools doing a dance routine on the stage one by one. Most of them were amazing and fun to watch. Some of my favorite groups did 'oldies' songs and got the crowd pumped and the atmosphere was exciting. After we watch them take roll call we walked around a little bit and left to explore downtown LA. We ended up going to the Natural History Museum and it was a lot of fun looking at all the animals and dinosaur bones. After we were done we went to Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills and took a lot of pictures and looked at all the high-end stores. After we were done with Rodeo Drive we went to the Beverly Hills Outlets and looked at more of the stores. We then went to take pictures with the Lights in front of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). We took a lot of pictures because it is not like we get to see them every day. We went back to the hotel after we were done taking pictures because we were going to leave early the next day. We went to bed at around midnight again and we were supposed to leave at around 8:00 A.M. or 9:00 A.M. I had an alarm set for 7:00 A.M. again but my roommate and I fell back asleep and we did not wake up until about 8:45 A.M. and found out that everybody had slept in, so we did not leave the hotel until about 10:00 A.M. We stopped at Porto's because apparently you cannot go to LA without getting Porto's. We went to one, but they ran out of a certain pastry, so we went to the other Porto's in Burbank. After that we finally started our way back to Stan State. We made one last stop of the day just after the grapevine to get gas and lunch and then hit the road to come back home. the rest of the trip was about 6 hours and we finally made it back to Stan State at about 5:30 P.M. My weekend trip was super crazy, but it was a lot of fun.

Thanks for reading my blog! I would love to hear about a crazy weekend you have had.

Jenah