All right, so the journey continues. So, after Universal Studios we went back to the hotel and got to see our rooms and find out who are roommates were (I got Abdul, Stan, and Casey, who were all awesome and luckily I already knew them). There were only three beds in our room (and one was a futon), so Abdul and I decided to let the seniors have the nice beds, and we would share the futon, because they were seniors and if we were seniors there would be no way that we would let some freshman get the nice bed in place of us. We got about an hour to hang out and wash up before we had to go to the play, that night. Oh yeah, we had to dress up too (see photo of Abdul and I, above). We saw Dreamgirls at the Ahmanson theatre and though the singing was fabulous, the dancing was marvelous, the effects were wonderful, the sets were fantastic, and the lighting was beautiful, the story was only sub-par, and that really does make or break a play. The story wasn't terrible, but I just didn't really dig it (I was also really tired - I really only had a couple hours of sleep on the bus that morning) and so I had already checked out by the beginning of Act 2. Honestly, I did like Act 1, but I just wanted Act 2 to be over. The Ahmanson theatre was great though. Really pretty, and gigantic. We sat in the second balcony; the seating was so steep that everytime I started drifting off I was afraid I was gonna roll over and fall off the entire balcony - and that kept me awake. But the best part of that night was at the end of the play when we grouped outside and as I stood on the third story, I saw the amazing cityscape, which I knew I had seen before. It was in (500) Days of Summer (one of my top movies of the decade). I was so excited! Not only was the cityscape visually attracting, but I was in the relatively same area where they had shot (500) Days of Summer! I was in the same place, and as we were walking out we passed this fountain, that I was pretty sure was the same fountain Tom walked across in (500) Days of Summer (I asked Josh who said it was and when I got back and looked at the movie's wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(500)_Days_of_Summer under location it said that they had heavily used the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles Music Center, and towers of California Plaza, which is where we were - I even confirmed it with Google Maps). Finally, since we were all really hungry and hadn't ate dinner, Haeger took the group to California's legendary In-N-Out Burger. It was one of those without seating inside, so we had to stand outside and order from the stand. It must have been quite a sight to see 30 dressed up teenagers outside In-N-Out Burger while you were in the drive-thru (in fact, we talked to a couple that asked who we were, where we were from, and what we were doing). And as always, my meal (Grilled Cheese, fries, and a strawberry milkshake) was absolutely delicious. Just thinking about it makes me salivate.
That night I slept pretty soundly, after barely having any sleep the whole day. The next morning as Casey was walking out, he informed us that Haeger had called and it was time to wake up (6 a.m. and we only had an hour to eat breakfast at the hotel - thankfully free - and shower). I looked over and for some reason, Abdul wasn't there. I got up and discovered him, sleeping on the floor. I laughed, wondered how he got there, and secretly hoped that I didn't push him off. Stan came out and was similarly bewildered. We nudged him and tried to wake him up, but he was like a rock. Stan said we would just wake him when we got back and left, but I decided this was the perfect time to take a shower. When I got back out, I decided to try and wake Abdul up again. This time he actually did and informed me that I hadn't pushed him off, but that he woke up at like 2 in the morning, couldn't go back to sleep, walked around, drank an entire bottle of water in one sip, and then passed out on the floor. Oh well, he looked pretty comfortable. We got ready and then ate breakfast with Nathan and Ricardo. They had make your own omlettes, but they weren't that great, so I decided to not have it the next morning. We got on the bus at about 7:30 (Haeger had this system worked out perfectly, where he would tell us to be ready way earlier than we needed to be, because he knew we would be half an hour late, and by the time we actually got there, we still had half an hour to kill). We were off to Warner Brothers Studio!
And that's where I'll leave off for now. Keep waiting for Part 3 where I'll continue on with Day 2 (of 3 Days - dammit, this is gonna take me forever to write).
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