Got home and was EXHAUSTED and slept from 10am until 6pm.
Now I'm up all night working on photos and decided to take a break to blog.
You may or may not have noticed, I've started updating my blog again. I've also made an addition to the sidebar. Where I used to have a Cast of Characters, I now have Choose Your Adventure, so you can choose a tag/hashtag, and revisit those blog posts from the past. It's a really cool feature I've been slowly working on for the past year, and when it's complete it will be epic. If you have any tag suggestions, feel free to email me. I've been having to go back through the blog in my limited spare time and retroactively tag posts with labels and it's somewhat tedious but worth it in the end.
ANYWAY...
LA!
I'm in love with the 7am flight to LA because the airport is empty when I check in. And the upgrade likelihood is high (I got it, obvi) and then you land at 10am with a full day ahead of you and just in time to grab a fabulous lunch.
My first stop was SoHo House West Hollywood with Matt and Kelli.
SoHo House WeHo is arguably the most fabulous place in all of LA.
It sits high above West Hollywood at the beginning of the sunset strip and overlooks EVERYTHING. You can see the Hollywood Hills, Santa Monica, Century City, Downtown, and on a clear day even Long Beach. It is beauuuuutiful. And no picture taking is allowed, which kind of just adds to the mystique. (There are a lot of celebs there and it is probably nice for them to have a refuge where people can't snap photos of them for fear of having their memberships revoked.)
I found this photo on the the internet though. There are probably others if you google or search instagram.
It's just one of the terraces overlooking the LA skyline. As a member, you can just sit here all day and work on your computer, which I did, and plan to often.
The other thing that's awesome about SoHo House is that people are so excited to check it out that they offer to buy you lunch just for taking them. Thank you Matt and Kelli!
Celebs spotted at lunch: Omar Epps, Gerard Butler, Trudie Styler (Sting's wife).
After lunch, I headed over to Westwood where I was crashing with Matt and Adrian and took a nice long nappy nap.
Then it was back to SoHo for drinks and dinner with Danny and Steven. (Thank you D+S!)
While they don't allow picture taking at SoHo, they DO have an awesome photobooth and the hallway between the lounge and the restaurant is covered with black and white photos from the photobooth.
Celeb spotted: Ed Sheeran, Jason Lewis AKA Smith Jerrod from Sex and the City
After dinner we headed into West Hollywood where I had invited some of my friendsies out for pre-birthday drinkies. Thank you everyone who came out!
The next morning I went downtown to see KristyKwan who brought me to a hidden gem, Cook's Tortas.
And had the most delicious Steak Milanese Torta EVERRR...
Then we went back to Kristy and Mike's and she helped me hand-stitch my Worst Quality Crab costume for Ming-Na's big 50th birthday party (which I'm going to give its own post, for obvious reasons.)
Sunday morning after Ming's party, I brought my lovely hosts Matt and Adrian to SoHo for brunch. And after brunch I basically just held court there all afternoon because a bunch of people had texted saying they wanted to come by and check it out too. (You're allowed 3 guests at a time, so when one person left, I'd text the next person that they could now come over and would sign the next person in.) Gotta love social media. Such fun!
Celeb spotted: Rachel Zoe
Around 5 pm I headed to the airport for my redeye home.
And now here I am. Shivering under my blankets.
Oh...p.s...my friends convinced me to go to Vegas again this week to actually celebrate my real bday post Thanksgiving and...well...I just couldn't resist.
YOLO
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