icecold and cool in other ways too.

My world got rocked when I realized that my last weekend in SD was coming! "What should I do? How do I wanna spend the last weekend in the US and A !?!" Luckily a couple of my friends had some plans and I was able to join them.. So I went to L.A!
Part of the plan was to go to see the (61ST Annual) Emmys! And some other stuff too.

One stuff being my very first icehockey match!
It was hard to believe that I'd go to my first icehockey match in CALIFORNIA! Considering the fact that I've lived the first 19years of my life in Finland!Anyways, there we went. It was awesome, of course. Even tho seeing how the finnish players in Anaheim Ducks(:Saku Koivu, Teemu Selänne & Petteri Nokelainen) didn't really pay attention to us 3.. Even though we had all kinds of signs and even a finnish flag. And they saw us. Thats for sure. They are so proud of themselves.. Wonder why.


It's not like they r superüberathletes and überrich and have all the looks. Despite that, I had fun.
And dont get me wrong.. I'm not disrespecting them! Oh not at all! I'm just disappointed!
I think they game was a good one. Some fights.. AND GOALS. But Anaheim lost the game 4-1.. Suckers. It was the Karma, boys! Next time pay some attention to the fans and maybe you will win. OR EVEN GET EVEN!





Some people seemed to be very engaged to this icehockey season opening time..(Not sure when the season really opens but it's about to open..I bet!)

It was soooo cold in the hall. Luckily I brought my San Francisco-hoodie with me. And luckily I didnt get sick. It's a real miracle actually..I was wearing sandals!


Before the match we saw the scene of the crime: the Nokia theatre were the Emmys were designated to be held the very next day! I felt a huge wave of happiness inside me when I touched the red carpet with my designer heels..wearing a designer gown and not so much fat.. This all in a half a second..in my mind. A girl can always dream you know.





After the match we went to Anita's apartment in Santa Monica (aaaw I love that place!) and had some margaritas..




...watched stupid videos from Youtube..ate tortilla chips and daim-bars from IKEA where we had gone earlier that day. Did I eat any $1 meatball-meals? Did I eat 20 meatballs and a lot of smashed potatoes plus gravy plus lingonberry? Maybe.

Roadtrip part6.

We left Modesto in the morning and started to drive towards San Francisco.
On the way there we spotted something. Something big and blue.
With yellow letters.
IKEA.
Yippee!
There we got some REAL FOOD! No more $1 side-salads or burgers.


And of course I needed some snacks too:


I <3 IKEA.

It was easy to find San Francisco. But it wasnt easy to go around San Francisco! It was nearly impossible! At least with a car! I felt so bad for Marke because she had to drive, but couldnt regret not getting a drivers license. Not at that moment.
After a while we found our hotel. It was an old hotel/building. The room was tiny..but there was something very charming about the hotel. This view from our room must be one(or maybe the only one) of the charming things:


One of the main attractions in San Francisco was on a walking distance: UNION SQUARE:






Before going to the next VISFP(Very Important San Francisco Place) we stopped by at one of the best places ever: JAMBA JUICE! I got my usual: Aloha Pineapple<3

Sipping my Aloha Pineapple we slowly(we werent in a hurry! finally!) walked to Chinatown. It was seriously like a little China! Only turists and a lot of chinese people and chinese shops!






There was also a tiny little Italy! I was to mesmerized to take a lot of pics of it, but I got one:


I can't remember what was the name of the shop, but they had all kinds of sweets there.. and toys. And whats the most important: they had SKUNK-PLUSH TOYS! So I bought two of them for "my kids". And then I got a small bag of popcorn for free! Not just any popcorn but somekind of caramel popcorn. Ah. Delicious!


We stopped to eat them and let the Tig(g)er stroll around the park like the people there did.. No one looked Tiger in any weird way.



Everyone minded their own business there.. People there had some really unique looks.. But I didn't dare to take any close pics of them. But I'll do that next time I go to San Fra. By then I'll probably have a better camera too.. And I'll take million close-ups of all those unique persons! That's gonna be a blast!




It was already getting dark, so now we had to hurry so we would see the seals or whatever those creatures are that bark and howl.
Here's some pics on the way there and there:








We didn't go into Alcatraz, but we SOO saw it from Pier39! HAH. I thought it was faaaaar away from the coast and that it would be HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE. But nope, it was close and it was relatively small.
Here's a dude I met at the Pier39. I almost thought about flying away with him. Having my happy ending.


A real jailbird!





San Francisco was truly beautiful. One of my favourites of all time!
And this wasn't the end off San Fra! We would be waking up in San Francisco! And spend more time in there!
But before the day ended, I had to get something to eat.AND DRINK! So we went to Walgreens and I got some puddings, milk and orange juice.
Luckily we had a mini refridgerator in our room so my food stayed edible.


We had a refridgerator, but no AC! Can you believe it! Sure, it was SAN FRA and it was supposed to be very cold or even cool, but it was warm! So the night was very hard..it was so hot. I think I slept maybe 4hrs.. And in the morning we realized that our check-our would be at 10!! And the clock was about 9 by then!! So we had to take a quick shower(in a tiny shower closet) and put on some clothes and take the bags and get out!

Because we didnt have too much time(we had to get our car out of the parking place by 3pm) we decided to take a bus to the Fisherman's Wharf. Luckily a nice senior citizen helped us out! Yes we got into the bus(which cost $2) and rode it about 3 or 4 blocks and then it stopped! They had changed the route a little.. So we had to walk.. well, at least we saw more San Fra.. and a lot of people running, riding their bicycles and skate-boards. No wait! No skate-boards! Skate-boards were prohibited there! WEIRD! In So-Cal everyone's got a skate-board..or at least most have one.







At the Fisherman's Wharf we saw some Hell's Angels too! And a hippie man singing! I gave him 2 bucks.






We rode the Tram too!! Or whatever that vehicle is called. Hah. It cost $5. To do things in the right way, even once during our roadtrip, we decided to stand on the edge and hold on the pole. It was fun.

(I'm so lazy now that I'm just gonna post pics of the Golden Gate Bridge. After all, what there's to tell about it. It looked like it looks like in the pictures! It was there. Just stood. Red. Longish. Could have been longer. Could have been more red. Some people say it orange though! I think it's red!






After seeing the Bridge, we left SF and headed to MONTEREY.
About that in the next post..