Lakers Fans Are CRAZY!

So week two rap up. This work week flew by and I must say I was very happy it did! I am truly beginning to feel at home with my work crew and dancing with the idea of liking LA, but not enough to want to live here. This week I got to go around with my supervisor and assistant designer Erica to see where all of our contractors are. We have local contractors for sewing and pattern making so it was very exciting to see these locations and meet these people. We went to a place where we get a lot of our trims for sample dresses before they are sent to China to be massed produced. The most amazing place. A warehouse with boxes with the trims within taped to the outside. These boxes were stacked sooo high ladders were used to clime to the top to retrieve desired trims. This week at work I also went through every garment offered online for sell and entered into an excel document the specs of the garments for a more pleasing shopping experience. This took, working on and off, the entire week, but is a nice change from hand sewing. This week I was also gifted with Meghan and had the opportunity to get my little sisters birthday present and I just can't wait for her to have it! Caroline and I find ourselves coming home at nights and sitting in front of our laptops watching episodes of TV shows on Hulu and its getting old very quick. And while our apartments leasing office realizes that the only thing they can keep from me is my gym membership while waiting for Caroline's father to sign a form saying "yes, I am her roommate" I am really getting restless. I am so ready for that gym and I think I am at the prepared point to just go be aggressive with the office and get it because this wouldn't even be the situation if only the temp girl had entered Caroline's information correctly. Aggravating! I have come to a realization however that I really should spend some of my after work time on learning and remembering my Spanish since I am in the middle of so much of it. This weekend we had planned to visit Huntington Beach because a friend of mine was having a beach party and we wanted to experience that! We had also decided that we wanted to go see the Wizard of Oz, Dorthy's Red Slippers, display that was going on at the FIDM museum. So Saturday morning we got ready and headed to the museum, walking since it was only a few blocks away. Once stumbling into the building and learning from a security guard that we were not allowed in the building since we were not students and that the museum was around the corner we laughed it off and headed in. The displays were amazing! These floating bubbles hung from the ceiling displayed the various designers that had come into partner with this event and design challenge. We saw some amazing interpretations and gave me, a not in the least bit fan of Wizard of Oz, a lot of excitement! I mean the slippers were the only good part! After that fun and excitement we decided to venture to the fast food places I had seen on my way home from church last week to get some cheap and delicious Taco Bell! We wound up walking several city blocks just to get some Taco Bell...I mean a good 30 minute walk at least, but it passed quickly with our talking and amazement of our surroundings. But lucky us realized that we could catch the bus back within a couple blocks of our place. We ran back up to the loft and gathered our things and headed off the Huntington. We got there surprisingly quickly and easily! It was awesome to drive into! The beautiful sand and all the people out enjoying it! We found a good, FREE, place to park and headed in! The sand was awesome and Caroline and I hadn't remembered from our childhood how hard it was to walk in the sand. We decided to run and put our feet in! I, of course, got way too excited and even with my pants up to my knees I still got them soaked. We realized we were ready to get in a little more than we thought so we quickly changed and played around for a while. We had read before leaving the loft of Main St. and the pier and wanted to go check out all it had before meeting up with our group. We wound up literally spending 5 hours on Main St. in and out of all the various stores and after dinner at 9:30 had missed the beach party in its entirety. Not too bumbed but very tired we headed home and slept like ROCKS!! On Sunday later in the evening the Los Angeles Lakers had a basketball game. Lakers fans love their team so much that men love to skip down the streets! I have never seen so many car flags and sooo many honking cars at once. We were more than amused and have spent mass amounts of time at our window starring down at the fans and crazy cars on the street. Caroline and I a little oblivious to professional sports didn't realize that this was the National Championship and this is why our neighbors decided to yell and wave flags out the window to EVERY passing Lakers fan. And this is why we won't be getting any sleep tonight!
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~Leslie