Recap on Cali Trip!

So, my trip to L.A. was A-MAZIIIING! It was SO great to see my good friend, Laura, in all her new found happiness with her new life in Malibu with her beautiful Arabian horse, 'Lucky Lady'. It is insane to take in the beauty of where this girl lives. Overlooking beautiful mountains and then travelling down the mountains only to run into an even more beautiful Pacific Ocean! It was heaven on earth!

My trip started with Kendall picking me up from the airport in our awesome Kia Spectra of a rent-a-car. That car did us well I tell you...only $20 bucks to fill up the gas tank..and in Cali...thats pretty stinkin' cheap!! We had lunch with Laura at a cute little cafe just down the street from Laura's work and then Kendi and I decided to head to none other than Hollywood Boulevard!! We went on the Celebrity homes tour which was pretty cool seeing the enormous homes of Whitney Houston, George Clooney, BRITNEY SPEARS (yes..I love her...don't judge), Meg Ryan, The Spelling Mansion, The Playboy Mansion, Jack Nicholson, Richard Gere (his was WEIRD!), Mike Tyson, Charlie Chaplain, Marilyn Monroe...the list goes on. It was fun! We then headed down the Pacific Coast Highway to Malibu to meet Laura for dinner at Nobu-Mailbu where we had our first celebrity siting!! I was sitting in the chair that faced the front door and noticed Dr. Cox (from Scrubs) i.e. John C. McGinley walking into the restaurant with his wife. I "casually" leaned over to Kendall to tell her of what I was seeing and she quickly made me get up to go to the bathroom so she could have my seat and stare at him while him and his wife enjoyed their meal....crazyyyy! She then made us order another round of drinks and desert so we could wait to get up when they were done with dinner (reminder: they got there when we were FINISHED!), but it was worth the wait because as they got up, we did as well and Kendall (and all her crazy) smiled and told him that she was a big fan of the show. His response was "Thank you! Whats your name? This is my wife..." and shook our hands and was so nice! Paparazzi took over from there, so we weren't able to get a pic...oh well. Good work Kendi!

The next day, Kendall and I slept in a bit and made our way to In-n-Out Burger!!!! In the words of Rachel Ray...it was YUMM-O!!! And I just couldn't resist getting a chocolate shake with my meal!!! My mouth is watering just thinking about it! That night we went to Jimmy Kimmel Live and sat on the 2nd row! It was fun. John Cena and McLovin were on it that night...that was quite the size difference between the two guests! After the show, we ate at Ashton Kutcher's restaurant, Dulce. It was pretty good, but the service definitely could have been better. No celeb sitings here....oh well.

Now here's the good part!!!

The next day, Kendall and I reverted back to our good ol' high school days to play some high school girls on Courtney Cox's new show Cougar Town! We were extras thanks to Kendall's crazy. Earlier in the week (when I had no control of her), she had ventured onto the set of Scrubs as she was on her Celebrity stalking prowl. There, she ran into some of the producers of the show who played right into her charm and asked her if she wanted to be an extra on their new show! She said she had a friend coming in town and asked if I could be an extra as well....and the rest is history! We shot scenes at Birmingham High School ALL day from 11 AM until 2 AM that morning. It was tiring, but AMAZING! We were literally standing about 5 feet from Courtney Cox herself as well as some other fun actors including Busy Phillips (Audrey from Dawson's Creek). So look for us on the Pilot! We are hoping with all of our "hard work" that we will end up in at least ONE scene of the show! And to top it off, we got fed (good food!) and PAID! on VACATION! The other Extras couldn't understand how we got so lucky because apparently you have to be in some sort of Actor's Union to even be considered as an Extra. What can we say...were just too cute to pass up! The producers kept referring to us as the "Texas Girls" throughout the day...it was pretty neat!

We spent Saturday playing with Lady, then went to downtown L.A. for the Justin Nozuka, Missy Higgins concert. We ate at this quaint little Italian cafe just around the corner from the Orpheum Theater (which was GORGEOUS!) where we spotted Justin Nozuka, himself, and his band! Kendall pulled the same "get up the same time as the celebrity" trick and Justin held the door open for us as Kendall said to him "Hey! We are fixing to go to your concert!" he responded with "Awesome! See you there!" (I don't think he actually SAW us in there, but we can dream, right?) Anyway, at the concert in between Justin and Missy, I was craving a diet coke, so I went out to the atrium and I recognized a certain group of people. It was the some of the cast of "So You Think You Can Dance" from last season! (A favorite show of Me, Kendi, and Laura) I quickly ran back into the Theater to grab Kendall and Laura and we went back out to the atrium and met the cast and got our pic with them. They actually sat there and chatted with us for like 5 minutes...it was pretty cool! (One of the girls was from Carrollton, so it made easy conversation)It was a perfect ending to the perfect trip!!

All-in-all...I couldn't have asked for a better vacay with great friends! I just wish all of our other girls could have been there with us too! You know who you are! ; )

So if you ever want to spot a celeb, you need your two secret weapons:
1) Kendall Elise: she will get you to the celeb spots (thanks to her hours and hours of celeb research on People.com and E!).
2) Me!: I am the eyes that will do the "spotting"....I am freakishly aware of my surroundings...so watch out because I'm watching youuuu!!!!!! hahahahahah!