Wednesday, March 21, 2012

We're Seeing Stars, and more Stars!

So last week, Hayley and I decided to have a "hollywood" day. We did the Hollywood Walk of Fame, passed by Grauman's Chinese Theater, Madame Toussads Wax Museum, Ripley's Believe It or Not, The Guiness Book of World Records museum, and the Hollywood Wax Museum. We were super exhausted after it all, but man was it fun!

On the Hollywood Walk of Fame, we found so many stars! Winnie the Pooh, Rugrats, Christina Aguilera, Alan Jackson, Kiefer Sutherland, the Beatles, Julie Andrews, etc. So many, I can't even name them all. Of course I had to take my picture and be a real tourist! We searched and searched for George Strait (Hayley's lover) but never could find it and later on found out he doesn't even have a star!! What in the world?? Anyway, we ended up not even walking the full thing b/c it is 18 blocks, we probably only walked about 12 of those blocks (our feet were hurting by the end of this day).

Next it was time for Madame Toussads. While there we danced with Beyonce, googled at George Clooney (okay maybe that was just me), judged with Simon Cowell, Yelled "Action" with Steven Spielburg, joked with Jim Carey, Chilled with Will Smith, interviewed with Ryan Seacrest, thought really hard with the Godfather, Shoot some people with Clint Eastwood, etc. We saw soo many celebraties it was unreal :) We also skate boarded with Tony Hawk, golfed with Tiger Woods, Cheered with Sue Silvester, Box with Roxy, and Moonwalk with MJ ! Whew, what craziness and how tiring that was! Next up, Ripley's museum.

The Ripleys museum was just like many of the others we've been to. It had some crazy stuff you wouldn't think was real, and also had some fun puzzles to solve. Also there were pictures on the walls made out of crazy things like junk mail, candy and some other things. We didn't take many pictures here, but definitely tried to solve the puzzles and read up on the craziest stuff! We also saw a statue of the fattest man in the world. At his heaviest he weighed in at about 1400 Ibs! That's like 13 of me! Geez! Well, it off to the Guiness book of world records now!

Here at the world record museum, it began with music records. Most albums sold, Most downloaded song, most singles sold, concert sell outs etc. Kinda boring stuff. Then we got to a part of stuff that wasn't important and kinda of stupid. Person who walked on his hands the longest difference, woman with the longest hair, person who ate the most hotdogs in a minute, person with had the longest horizontal jump, guy who drank the most ketchup bottles in a minute, etc. I mean does anyone really care? Next was Food :) Now that's what I'm talking about! Biggest vegetables, biggest ice cream sandwhich, largest pizza ever made, Beer with the most alcohol content, etc. That was fun to read about, and it made me a tad hungry! The last part was movie information, kind of like the music part. So we learned a lot of uselss stuff pretty much :) Last but certainly not least, we were off to the more celebraties at the Hollywood Wax Museum.

This wax museum had some different Characters in it. We got to stand on the Titanic with Leo (Ill never let go Jack), Blink with I Dream of Genie, show our muscles with Hulk Hogan, Sing with Elvis, Chill with Hue Heffner, Hang-10 with TMNT, and kick some booty with Charlie's Angels!. Oh how could I forget, did a Vita-veta-vegimen commercial with Lucy Recardo too! Haha. I mean, I don't think we could have met any more celebreties in one day than we did that day! It was awesome :)

To end the day, we decided to have some Sushi! It was delightful! We sat at the bar and watched him make it for us! Spicy Tuna Roll is one of our favs, and we enjoyed watching it be made. He also made one that looked super yummy, so we asked him what is was. Albacore something? Anyway, I then saw hime making something really small and I told Hayley someone was getting jipped, little did we know, he made us a sample of the one we said was yummy! Wasn't that sweet :) So we ate our yummy sushi and headed on our way home. Great end to a great day! Till Next Time

~Hayley and Elizabeth~

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Could Only Happen to Us!

We had last night all planned out: 1. Dinner 2. Car Wash 3. Workout with Jillian Michaels, 4. Wash clothes, 5. Movie/Scrapbooking, and 6. Clean our disaster of an apartment. Okay, you know our "plans", so this is what actually took place..............

Just hanging out in
Alberton's Parking lot
It started out just another regular night for us. Steak dinner at Black Angus (we sure do love the $39 campfire meal for two) and then to Target, to buy another Jillian Michaels workout dvd. On the way to Target we stopped at a car wash to give Cammy (my car) her shower we have been promising her for weeks!! We splurged and got her the $11 wash, look out Tundras, this Camry is looking sharp and sparkly. So anyway, on to Target.  While there we bought us two workout dvds (Jillian Michaels and Zumba) and some "weights" (water bottles, real weights cost to much!). So far so good right? Once we got home, we added more money to our laundry card (yes we have to use a laundry facility just like we are back in college), and headed down to throw our clothes in the washer. All seemed to be going good so far. So while our clothes were washing we walked to Albertson's to return a Redbox and rent a new one to watch while scrapbooking. Hayley had sent me a code for a free rental so we were excited (love free stuff). Only problem is we didn't think to bring a credit card to use in case we kept it longer than one night. So of course, no movie for us. We didn't want this to be a completely wasted trip (her redbox was already charged another night since it was 1030), so we used this opportunity to have some fun  (see above). Once we got home we realized we had no dryer sheets, so of course we then walked up to Von's to grab some. Once getting back from the store the clothes had about 8 more minutes, so we went upstairs and put in both workout dvds to decide which on we wanted to do. After watching both, Jillian it was. So we grabbed our laundry card and headed back to the laundry room to dry the clothes. Halfway done putting clothes in dryer, "Holy Crap Hayley, I forgot to grab the keys. We are locked out!" Yes we got locked out of our apartment and it was around midnight!!!!!! NO phone, no keys, no nothing (except our trusty laundry card). What to do? We walked to the front to see if there was an emergency number posted anywhere, of course not. We memorized the main desk, grabbed some pooper scooper plastic bags from the mail room, propped open a few gates (you have to have a key to even enter the complex), and walked BACK to Von's. Hayley called the main number to see if there was a maintenance emergency number. She left a message "The is Hayley Harrison. I live in apt 307 and got locked out while doing my laundry. If someone could let us back in that would be great. I don't have my phone, so I had to walk up to Von's to use theirs. If you get this message We will be the two girls just roaming around the apt, and hanging out in the cabanas."  So how do you think this worked out?  No one ever came. We folded our laundry and brought it with us to the cabanas. Luckily we washed sheets and towels, b/c boy was it cold last night. Good thing we had both used the bathroom prior to this fiasco b/c the bathroom by the pool are locked. We only saw a few people during the night, and of course no one was willing to help until around 6am when we saw a lady we had met our first weekend here. She offered for us to come to her apt, but we politely declined (not wanting to impose). I'm not sure either of us slept at all! It was freezing, the benches were short, and my whole body hurt! Finally around 730 a maintenance guy came to unlock the cabana (yeah we climbed the gate) and was able to go get the master key and let us in! Well there's our fun filled night of being locked out in the freezing cold with no phones! What did people do without phone? Now we know, wait around for someone to finally come along and help. Anyway, I had some cheese grits and steak for breakfast and then it was off to relax for us (not before watching The Voice from last week and talking to Hope-Happy Birthday again!!!) Hope everyone elses Monday night was a little less adventurous than ours :) Well we are off to the LA Kings Hockey Game!  Till Next time!

~Hayley and Elizabeth~