Sunday, April 22, 2012

home sweet home (Thursday's entry)

Ahhh. To be home again.
California, I sure have missed you!
The drive down here was NUTS.
First of all, we left Provo at 3am and drove through the night. Seemed like a great idea at the time! Yeah, I only lasted about 2 and a half hours before I had to stop in Beaver and have someone else take over so I could sleep. Thanks again, Cait! We got into Southern California at about 11am and dropped Melissa off at her house and then headed to mine :) Mom greeted us with pizza and soda. Bless her heart. The girls and I were so set on going out - either to the beach or the mall, something! But, we ended up taking a 2 hour nap...and we desperately needed it! We woke up and headed to Victoria Gardens, an outdoor mall not far up the 15fwy with my folks to get some shtuff. We found out that Elise has never had a Hot Dog on a Stick, so we made sure she lost that virginity real fast and made her eat one. My favorite is the cheese on a stick. I LOVE CHEESE ON A STICK. Seriously, a guilty pleasure. So dang delicious.
Today (Thursday), the girls and I got dolled up (not really) and headed to LA! We went to the Santa Monica pier and walked around and got to touch the freezing cold ocean. I HAVE MISSED THE BEACH SO MUCH! Holy cow. I don't think anyone understands my love for the beach and how much I have missed it while being in freezing Utah. After the pier, we headed down to Beverly Hills and drove down Rodeo Drive. Mercedes were EVERYWHERE. My little Mitsubishi looked so out of place :( We visited the Visitor's Center at the Los Angeles where Elise got to see her sister, Erin! Erin is serving a mission out here and Elise surprised her. It was a sweet, sisterly moment :) The only thing about being all the way out in LA is....it took us about 2 and a half hours just to get home. Whew! It was a wonderful, eventful day but I am EXHAUSTED.
It is so fantastic being home. My daddy really emphasized that I needed to leave EVERYTHING in Provo and to come to California and completely relax and regroup before I start Spring/Summer semesters. I've had an emotional couple of days leading up to coming home where I felt like nothing was going my way and I couldn't see the light at the end of my very dark tunnel. This trip home was exactly what I needed and I already feel 1000000x better :)

We are going to California Adventure tomorrow! I am so excited! Then, Sarah flies in Saturday morning and we will have our Disneyland day :) We have an extremely busy next few days, so I better catch some zZzZzZzZzs's....
Happy End of Winter Semester! (officially!)

P.S. this entry was intended to be posted on Thursday....whoops :P

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