Out and about in LA

Freezing at the beach

Well, we have now been in LA for 3 weeks, and it's been an awesome few weeks so far! I'll begin with our trip out here. We left early the morning of January 25, stopping in Texas Wednesday night, and staying with my friend Charlie and his wife in Arizona on Thursday night. Thanks so much Charlie! We decided to split this California trip into 3 days instead of just 2, haha.We arrived to our Burbank apt on Friday January 27. We absolutely love it! So many things are within walking distance: Grocery store, drug store, red box, restaurants, and a karaoke bar. We haven't yet sung, but hopefully by the end of this assignment we will build up the courage to sing our hearts out (doubtful, I know). We started our hospital/floor orientation the following Monday, and were finally on our own the next week. We aren't big fans of this hospital, actually we hate it (won't get into that here, since blog is supposed to be about all of our fun adventures!), which has us enjoying our days off even more than usual!!!

Girl's Night Out with Carly

Chad and Ian playing in cold water

So I will now continue on to tell you about some cool people we've met. Our hospital doesn't have many nurses our age, so we were pumped to meet Carly, another traveler that works on Hayley's floor and she's from Alabama! She came to watch the American's Got Talent LA auditions with us. That was pretty neat, however, Carly and I were completely exhausted since we worked the night before. Well worth it though :) We were also excited to meet some non-LAish people, Chad and Ian. They are roommates from a small town in Oregon and went to the University of Oregon (we won't hold that against them). They are pretty cool, so we decided to keep them around, haha. We took a trip to Manhattan Beach with them (will never go to that beach again during traffic!), which ended up being terrible b/c the football they brought was completely flat, and it was cloudy and cold outside. Good thing for blankets to wrap up in and snacks to eat (to keep our energy up). Hopefully next time we head to the beach, it will be nice and toasty!

In line at the Price Is Right

Our roomie V-day Dinner

A few other things we have done while here: A taping of Price is Right. No, we didn't actually get on the show, but I'm pretty sure we had our 5 seconds of fame and we got a free Grammy CD, so we won something right?! :) That same day we also went to a taping of "Whitney". Has to be one of the funniest shows, and I loved seeing them shoot the entire show in front of us. Pretty cool! For Valentine's we decided to be each other's valentine, and go out for a steak dinner! Stupid we know, but hey, that's us. Plus it was a dang good steak! Well I think that's about all. This past weekend we headed to Laguna Beach and Disneyland as an early B-day present to me, but that will just have to wait for another blog. So sorry to leave y'all in suspense like that, it's cruel I know! :)
Till next time,

~Hayley and Elizabeth~