SoCal with the Toronto Wifey!!!!!

My trip to Cali was great! I was in SD for a few days with my partner in crime from Toronto. It was so nice to see Emily! We spent a lot of time in La Jolla enjoying the great weather! Then we went to OC for the Brtiney concert, which was in-fucking-credible!!!!! It was all pre-recorded so, she didn’t sing. But the show was fantastic. It was set up like a three-ring circus and she had great back-up dancers and performers. Pussy Cat Dolls opened. OMG these girls are talented! They sang live and danced. It was so much fun! Then Em and I met up with Sally (my former roommate) and we all went out to meet up with my parents in Palm Springs.

Emily and I went to the bar/club/lounge at The Ivy, which is this luxury hotel downtown SD. We went with Emily’s friend, Kristina, who she knows from law school in Canada and also on exchange in SD. I had not met her before this night. Kristina is a bit manic when she drinks…you’ll see what I mean. So the three of us get all dressed up and hit the bar. After a few drinks we make our way to the dance floor. This fairly cute guy strikes up a conversation with me, and Emily and Kristina come over to make sure he is good enough for me. (We’ve got each other’s backs!) Kristina starts telling him how all three of us are from different countries- I am American, she is Canadian, and Emily is from BOSNIA!!!

I shit you not, she said Bosnia.

The guy says, “No kidding, I am from Bosnia, too!” Kristina gets this look of terror on her face and runs off. Of course, he was just fucking with her and was not from Bosnia. We were only talking a few more minutes when belligerent Kristina comes back for round two. She starts yelling at this poor guy how he is stupid and probably can’t even spell Bosnia let alone find it on a map! The guy got kinda pissed and told Kristina she was a dumb bitch and to shut up! Well, this just set Kristina off and she goes on this tirade about how smart she is. She tells the guy how she has five different degrees and won all these awards and published papers…none of which is true. I am just standing there with my mouth open taking this all in. Then the poor guy says he has had enough and walks away.

But does Kristina stop there? No. She continues to yell at him! She screams, “Seriously, a white jacket? Who wears a white jacket? Do you think you are Don Johnson in Miami Vice or something? Really, what is fucking wrong with you?” One of the bartenders told her to settle down. When she didn’t I had to talk him out of throwing us out of the club. So I burst out laughing! It was one of the funniest things I had ever seen. Immediately Kristina starts apologizing and buys me a few drinks. (I actually was not at all mad and found the whole thing rather amusing.)

Then the three of us are tearing up the dance floor with two of her SD friends. Back in the day, Emily was an accomplished dancer and gets extremely jealous of the go-go dancers that work at clubs. And totally went off on how she wanted to be up on the platform dancing and how they were so hot and such good dancers. Kristina in all her glory says, “yes, they might be hotter and better dancers than you, but you are way smarter!” Neither of us could believe that came out of her mouth and did not please Em too much.

Shortly after this, the bouncer asks me if we want to go to the VIP lounge. Of course we say yes. We get up to the roof and then the same bouncer asks us if we want some free drink. And of course we say yes again. It was some guy’s birthday party and he had bottle service at one of the tables…but no friends. So the girls and I go over and the bartender gets us some drinks. Emily and I decide dancing on the couch is a great idea at this point. Unfortunately, the waiter did not share this view. When he told us to get down, Emily started bitching at him that we should be allowed to stand on the couch because we took our shoes off. So we go back to the dance floor and tease the boys for the rest of the night!

And I did get to witness a Brit-ster SNAFU at the concert. Apparently she lost her tampon on stage!!!! Here is the YouTube URL with the video-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtPiSE4AIO8&feature=player_embedded

After a few days of eating, drinking, and the sun in PS, my parents and I headed to OC. While my dad was working in the hotel, I got some mother-daughter bonding time in! We got pedicures (my feet were disgusting after the beach and running on pavement) and went shopping. We went to South Coast Plaza and went into every designer store. They don’t have those kinds of stores in Rochester, so it was fun for my mom to look. I took her to the Jimmy Choo store…and I fell head-over-heels in LOVE with a pair of black leather peep-toe stilettos! (Because I don’t have enough pairs of black shoes or anything.) They were super expensive, but my mom thought I really needed them. She suggested I think about and took me for a few drinks. An hour and a half and two margaritas later, it seemed like a brilliant idea to go back and drop copious amounts of money on a pair of shoes!

And of course, any vacation would not be complete without my travel curse! I was supposed to leave SNA on the 7:45 am flight. We get on the plane and are sitting there for a few hours on the tarmac. Turns out there was an electrical malfunction and they needed a part!!!! The part was in LAX and would take hours to get to SNA and then fix the plane. So they had us all disembark and find new flights. I got re-routed through Seattle! I did not get back until 3:30pm when I was supposed to arrive at 10am. But thankfully I did not check my bags!

Anyway, it is nice to be back and reunited with my full wardrobe. It was great to wear bikinis and not real clothes, but I missed my shoes! LOL! Work has been insane. I am digging myself out from under a massive email pile!

The trip did make me realize how much I miss SoCal and how much I do not fit with the People's Republic of Portland...