Los Angeles, the second coming

For the President's Day long weekend, we headed down to LA, the city of Angels. This is our second time there. I first went to LA during the summer shutdown last year. The first time, it was exciting cause it was new, cool, and flashy. It felt like there were so many stuff to do and see. The second time around, I guess the euphoria kind of died off. Since I've already seen what it's like, being there didn't quite have the "wow" factor to it. Still, it was cool.

The weather was absolutely amazing. Hot, sunny, a solid 80 degrees. Before going to LA, we hung out at San Luis Obispo first. This town is home to the Cal Poly university, the Gumball Alley, and also UFC champion Chuck Liddell. The Gumball Alley is a shady alley in downtown, packed full of chewed gum stuck on the wall. People started tacking them on since the 60's. There's an equal amount of coloured recent gums to rock-hard black ones. Certainly worth a look I suppose.

While in LA, I tried to go to as many new places as possible. We visited Venice beach, Little Tokyo, Kodak Theatre (where they were setting up for the Oscars right through the night), Huntington Beach, the Crystal Cathedral, Universal City, California ScienCentre (I know, I know...I'll explain below), USC, and UCLA.

One of the biggest problem this time was the lack of planning. We ran out of ideas by the third day, and were struggling to come up with something to do. We thought about film studio tours and talk show tapings on the spot, but they were all booked out. Lack of planning bitting in the ass. As a result, we ended up at the science centre. It was free though, that's always appealing.

I would definitely want to go to LA again, there's still a lot more I want to check out. Some picture from this trip can be found here.