Hey everyone!
So, it's back to school after a long and luxurious three week winter break. Last week I landed back in Cape Town - I went back to LA for the holidays. I know. It's confusing - my mom, sister and I went there in April on an emergency trip to see my Grandmother who was quite ill at the time, despite the fact that we would be back here in June for a planned trip. So this trip to LA was planned a long time ago and that is why I was back in Los Angeles, with the whole family - including Papa-bear.
I find day-to-day updates quite tedious and boring, so I will just write some pretty general stuff, and then will let the pictures tell the rest of the story...
We left Cape Town International Airport on the 24th of June and arrived on the 25th (due to the time difference) of June in LA. For the first week we stayed at my Nana's house in the valley, in the hills (oolala!). The first week we did quite a lot. We went to LACMA (art museum), Silverlake (a very hipster area - it's really cool), MOCA - modern art museum, Target, and a couple restaurants.
For the second week, we stayed at my aunt and uncle's house in Huntington Beach, Surf City USA. We went to the beach, swam a lot, tanned a lot, walked downtown, went to a few restaurants- my favourite was Umami Burger: had the Black Keys burger, and did some other really fun stuff.
For the third and final week we were back at my Nana's house. That week we mainly saw a lot of my parents' old friends and also did some shopping in Santa Monica, we had a great time in Santa Monica with friends and in Venice Beach which has such a unique vibe - there is nothing like it!
I will definitely say that the highlight of the trip for me was the 4th of July. We watched a World Cup game in the morning, than chilled at the pool for most of the day, and then had a really lovely dinner at home with our really good friends who came down from San Fransisco. After dinner we walked down to the beach to watch the fireworks and generally to get into the mood - it was great and the fireworks were beautiful. We then came home and had some awesome ice-cream sundaes.
And now as I promised, here are the pictures from my trip. I hope you enjoy!
Simona xx
So, it's back to school after a long and luxurious three week winter break. Last week I landed back in Cape Town - I went back to LA for the holidays. I know. It's confusing - my mom, sister and I went there in April on an emergency trip to see my Grandmother who was quite ill at the time, despite the fact that we would be back here in June for a planned trip. So this trip to LA was planned a long time ago and that is why I was back in Los Angeles, with the whole family - including Papa-bear.
I find day-to-day updates quite tedious and boring, so I will just write some pretty general stuff, and then will let the pictures tell the rest of the story...
We left Cape Town International Airport on the 24th of June and arrived on the 25th (due to the time difference) of June in LA. For the first week we stayed at my Nana's house in the valley, in the hills (oolala!). The first week we did quite a lot. We went to LACMA (art museum), Silverlake (a very hipster area - it's really cool), MOCA - modern art museum, Target, and a couple restaurants.
For the second week, we stayed at my aunt and uncle's house in Huntington Beach, Surf City USA. We went to the beach, swam a lot, tanned a lot, walked downtown, went to a few restaurants- my favourite was Umami Burger: had the Black Keys burger, and did some other really fun stuff.
For the third and final week we were back at my Nana's house. That week we mainly saw a lot of my parents' old friends and also did some shopping in Santa Monica, we had a great time in Santa Monica with friends and in Venice Beach which has such a unique vibe - there is nothing like it!
I will definitely say that the highlight of the trip for me was the 4th of July. We watched a World Cup game in the morning, than chilled at the pool for most of the day, and then had a really lovely dinner at home with our really good friends who came down from San Fransisco. After dinner we walked down to the beach to watch the fireworks and generally to get into the mood - it was great and the fireworks were beautiful. We then came home and had some awesome ice-cream sundaes.
And now as I promised, here are the pictures from my trip. I hope you enjoy!
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| Silverlake |
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| Yummy Fish Tacos |
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| Downtown LA |
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| Downtown LA |
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| A Billboard |
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| The Black Keys Burger! |
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| Seen in a shopping centre. |
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| Old Towne Orange |
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| Old Towne Orange |
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| Huntington Beach |
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| Huntington Beach |
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| Lacma |
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| Urban Lights - Lacma |
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| Seen on traffic light on a street outside Lacma |
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| Runyon Canyon |
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| Venice Beach - Does anyone else see the homeless dude pulling the zap sign? |
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| Venice Beach |
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| Los Angeles |
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| Venice Beach |
Simona xx
