The City of Angels

On my trip to Alaska, I had to transit in LA. And it all started from…

老板drove us to the airport and got us into the business lounge (and also skipped the long queue at check in =D)

that’s 老板 working hard with his mac. yah geeky i know =D

and then i was on my own (taking different flights with cat and 老板) for the looooong 16 hours flight (with transit in Auckland)

plane brekky bleh

reaching LA!

The first thing I saw was brown lands, mountains, and somehow brown smog =p all thanks to the pollution caused by bad traffics:

LA is very chinessie (is there such word??), or asiannissie(yeah I know just saying ‘asian’ will do but heck I enjoy spelling it that way bleh) – I saw chinese restaurant in every town I passed by (of course mexican food everywhere since it is just above mexico =D). They even had really authentic korean food:

fish as one part of the free sides!!! no the guy is not on the menu zanendesu (unfortunately)

tofu soup – in a set just around usd15 for a set lunch i remember. much much cheaper than in Melbourne!!

We ordered so much (actually the sides cover 30% of the table already) which turned out to be a wise choice…

…

Because…

We don’t get dinner.

ToT

We are too chicken to walk on the street after dark. I know. We only wanted dinner around 8pm. And it’s already dark. We. stayed. in. downtown.

the room

Where walking alone/just two girls on the street is something no one would do. People will even approach you asking if you are okay if you walk alone on the street. The whole downtown (near 5th-6th street I think) is just quiet. Dark and quiet. With occasional police sirens. Apparently a homeless center is at 5th(??) street, and no they probably won’t harm you on purpose, according to some of the people we met – somehow they might just be a lil bit out-of-mind and suddenly hug you from the back, scaring the freak out of you, or maybe worse (no idea what could happen though).

no views. well unless the uncle naked in bed in opposite window is considered a view.

So, how to get dinner?
me: Umm is there any restaurant nearby? (I still have no idea bout how downtown LA is not like any safe downtown)
receptionist: There is, but you gals should not go out of the hotel at this time…
receptionist: Get pizza delivery instead.
me: ah?

We didn’t get pizza either =p We changed the hotel booking for the rest of the days in LA to stay in Hollywood (which costs more) instead. And got to bed early, looking forward for brekky in the next morning and to see the real LA downtown.

Umm. yeah so I’m going to sleep now. I mean in real life =D

So is LA really so angelic? Will post up the more faces of LA soon and you’ll decide =p