In the summer of 2006, Jordan travelled to Los Angeles to take some film classes at UCLA. Deciding this was the perfect opportunity to see the city, Emily, Kara and I headed there to visit him for a few days. Our time in LA was short - just three days - but we managed to make the most of our time!
Our adventure began on July 26, 2006 when we met at Kennedy airport to board our plane (and since we still have the useless details: American Airlines, Flight 21). On our way to gate 36 for boarding, we happened to witness a woman drop her suitcase down an entire escalator flight. None of us were sure how it happened, she just seemed to have let go of it. She attempted to run down after it, but it was "saved" by a man below her and handed back.
Once in the air, we occupied ourselved with various things (as the movie sucked - I can't even remember what it was!). Kara and Emily began drawing pictures where they would fold a piece of paper, and one would draw the body and the other would draw the head - without looking at the other person's contribution. The pictures all came out very entertaining, such as a lion's head with the body of someone wearing a cape as though getting a haircut or a shave.
They took a break from their drawing to eat one of the snackboxes sold by American Airlines. It included shortbread cookies, a dried fruit packet, goldfish crackers, water crackers (and probably some cheese) and a beef stick (though this does not seem important now, it becomes and important part of our tales in later installments).
During the flight, Kara also "made friends" with a baby sitting in front of her. Really, the young child just kept turning around and touching Kara on the knee.
Upon arrival in Los Angeles, we headed to the exciting Enterprise car rental, where we met up with Jordan. We rented a Ford Focus, and it turned out to be the exact same car Jordan had rented when he arrived. At this point, it was about ten o'clock and we were all getting tired from the flight and us being used to a time difference of three hours later. After a brief stint of not being able to figure out where the headlights were on the car (and Kara yelling this out the window to amused onlookers), we followed Jordan to his apartment. Fittingly, we heard the "Wind Beneath My Wings" in the car on the way (those who have seen Jordan's performance of this on Camp Hymelick will understand!).
We arrived at the apartment and met Jordan's roommates. After a short introduction, the first things we heard from them was "So, Jordan, we opened up the stove and the pen cap isn't there anymore." Apparantly, because of their lack of pot holders, Jordan had attempted to pull the tray out of the oven using a pen cap, which he dropped INTO the oven. The group was in agreement that it had probably melted away.
The real talk of the night, however, was that Jordan and Ian had gone to the Talladega Nights premiere and seen Will Ferrell. Ian gushed over the experience, saying that he called everyone he knew because Will Ferrell had given him the peace sign.
Then it was off to bed for our early adventures the next day!
Coming soon: Disneyland!
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