California.part eight.What was learned.

My California posts are over....this is the final one....I have no pictures for this....and it will not really be funny to anyone but Veida....so enjoy if you want...

1- L.A. does not serve Dr. Pepper ANYWHERE.
2- Belts must be worn wrong....not with belt loops.
3- Take a left, you get to the beach.
4- Hold on with both hands.
5- Do NOT eat phonebooks
6- Do NOT talk to strange strangers
7- Do NOT act lost
8- Do not lick your fingers until you wash your hands first.
9- The water in Beverly Hills, is fresh, clean, and surprisingly free.
10- People on Rodeo Dr do not eat, however, the next street over they eat everything.
11- The only reason a truffle is $50 is because there is Belgian chocolate in it.
12- People want to eat people who belong to PETA
13- You can only shop duty free if you are leaving the states...not state. Not even for the cool bag...

If you followed the California blogs, would you believe that it was only one day long??? I learned a lot in a few hours.

Thanks again Veida.

California.part seven.tired.

While we sat on our last bus ride....we realized we were tired......

Tired of walking....our poor piggys!

Tired of this stupid bus.

Tired of sitting in coach......even though we had not taken off yet in this picture.....

California.part six.what not to wear style

Enough Said.

California.part five.the waiting game.

Here we are STANDING on a super over-crowded bus, having to bump into each other...and listening to the ramblings of the Santa Monica crazies and drunks....take for example, the young 20 somethings who were discussing the PETA's president supposed dying wish is to be canablized as her final protest to the world.......and with that the young Santa Monican said he would eat her......

Okay, so they were drunk....but still....thats what we were bumping into....

Here Veida and I are sitting....waiting....and waiting....oh did I mention we waited? yeah....for the bus to take us back to the airport shuttle........we waited.

California.part four.Our goal is met.sort of.

The point of going to Beverly Hills was to eat lunch with the stars.....Once we got to Rodeo Dr. Veida and I were STARVING. You would think that we just hiked from LAX to BevHill, although we felt like we did, we were not in starvation mode, literally, it just felt like it.

So we walked down Rodeo Dr. We saw all the fancy smancy stores, but we did not see all the fancy smancy restaurants.....do people here eat??????

We turn on a side street.....and we literally stop at the first place we smelt food.....

Prego had a few of their waitstaff standing in the patio area, I guess attracting customers. Well I asked them if the food was good, and the man said of course. I was sold! We went in.

The first thing I notice when we sat down were the salt and pepper shakers. Weird you say.....that is typically the first thing I look at....Why you ask? Well, that story will be told later....just know they have these same shakers at Chilis too.....

This is us waiting to put in our orders....

I ordered the Cesar Salad, and a lemonade.....they didn't serve Dr.Pepper!!!

Veida ordered the Cheese Pizza.....

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We shared the salad and the pizza....Veida drank water, and me the lemonade.

Everything tasted fresh off the vine, yummy and crisp....it was good and worth the money....

Our bill that we split was about $30. Not bad......McDonalds is cheaper, but we were in the Hills, so we had a delicious high-class lunch.....for the price of a average class dinner......I would eat it again!

And by the way....no movie stars at lunch with us.....

California.part three.Rodeo Drive

WE MADE IT TO RODEO DR!!!

So we got off the bus as soon as we saw "Beverly Hills" we should have waited a few blocks...because we walked and walked some more...
But we made it.

We walked around Rodeo Dr and figured out, that just because the big fancy stores says 75% off.....we still can't afford it. *sigh*

Oh and also, just for the record, Beverly Hills. it's not as pretty as the movies make it out to be...and we didn't even see one celebirty.

California.part two.mass transit woes

We get into LAX (The airport in L.A.) and we have to figure out what exactly we have to do to get to Beverly Hills.....We get shuttled to the bus station, and there we run into a guy who seems a bit odd, and later we figure out he is a loitering bus bum who helps people figure out which bus to get on in hopes he will get a tip out of it....

We find blue bus 3, and figure it takes us to Wilshire Blvd. Well thats what the crazy man said, So we get on it.....and find that we are in for a ride.......the guy sitting next to us, was in a leg brace, eating the blue government pages of a phone book, which was half gone, I am guessing in his stomach....

Then there was a guy (pictured below) who sat in quiet prayer, but dressed to the gospel nines.

We were a bit scared, but excited for our adventure to come.

Veida waiting for the shuttle to take us to the bus station.

Here we are scared.....and nervous about the people around us.

I didn't get the guy in the cast. but check this man's tie and hankerchief...sweet.

So we get off of the bus, because they made us......(end of the route). Luckily we were only a block away from Wilshire blvd.

We were basing our estimate of where Beverly Hills was by the movie "Pretty Woman" And since Vivian called Kit to tell her she was staying at the "Wilshire Beverly Hills" we thought we were close.

So we start walking....

and walking....

and walking..

we didn't have a map.....we had a bus route with a psudeo map on it.....and according to that map, we did not hardly move towards the goal of Beverly Hills....we thought we were lost.

So we stopped at a bus stop, and figured we would get on it and pray it went where we wanted.....

A lady stopped at the bus stop and chit chatted with us about the weather, her hiking trip, and that she was from New York originally....she got on a bus that came by, that was not headed to Beverly Hills......grrr.

So we started walking again

and again

and again...

Another bus stop, we waited.......we got on the red #6 that WAS going to Beverly Hills. YAY!

Here we are tired and waiting for a bus.

California.part one.first class

Veida and I decided to go to Las Vegas for a day trip because on my birthday she had given me a sister trip to New York....however, New York is sooo cold, we thought a bit of the Las Vegas Strip would do us good.
HOWEVER......because we were sitting standby, the flights were all full..so we had to forget Vegas, and we decided that Los Angeles would be fun....so off we went.


This is Veida and me in the shuttle bus from the parking to the airport....


Here we are waiting to see if just maybe we could make it to Vegas....


We learned we couldn't get on the plane to Vegas, but we made it first class to The City of Angels.

My sisters and me

We went to Target and had our pictures taken. This is the first time in a long time we had them professionally done all together....

We love to have fun, we love life, but most important we love each other.

PreSeason Game And Live TV

Veida and I went to the Dallas Mavericks PreSeason Game....we had fun.

I had a busy day doing..errr...I mean helping...Jason finish his final project for a class....Jason had his final to take Thursday night, so even though she wasn't feeling well, Veida was a trooper and wanted to go.

We ate food....and more food....made fun of people....yelled at the Mavericks....

The Mavs lost....but it was just a preseason game, surely they will go all the way this year.....*crosses fingers* We have decided that because we were so high up, the Mavs couldn't hear us yelling at them telling them how to play the game, so next time, we will just have to sit closer.

And we attempted to crash the News Broadcast at "Victory Station" aka American Airlines Center. We were there with lots of drunk people from the game...we didn't have success, but it was fun yelling and screaming for their attention.

Two out of three..

My sister Veida...what can I say...she has piercing eyes, the most beautiful olive skin, and the brown curly hair most women dream of....and she is my right hand woman.....she is the part of me that I don't have the guts to be sometimes. She says no, when I would say yes even though no is what I wanted to say. She gives me the courage to do what is in my heart, not what others want me to do....and she helps me to NOT buy random stuff, even though I influence her to buy more than she wanted to....
As a child I wasn't the nicest person to her. But as we have grown up, we have learned to appreciate and love each other more than words can say. She (along with Shayda of course) is the reason I am me today....she is loved. By me.

Veida gets married!

Veida's day....May 17,2008...that was Veida's and George's 3 year anniversary for dating...and now it is their wedding anniversary.. I was the maid of honor...but I felt more like the cow of honor..bloated much? Shayda and Veida were super cute, and my dad sported his new suit that he will wear for his upcoming wedding and he says that he paid enough for it that he has to wear it to mine and shayda's weddings too....ha...me...married...doesn't seem likely anytime soon...blah.
Veida had her wedding at Cacharel and it was a no fuss kind of thing for us...they had a staff to pick up, decorate and serve lunch...good times.
We wore dresses that were picked out in less than ten minutes and were on super super markdown...one week before the wedding...flip flopps that were on clearance...jewery we found the day before at sam moons and the night before Veida's friend Laura and I did the flowers...
Us Mastali girls are all about procrastinationesque perfection with a bargin flare.....I dare you to ask us to pay full price for anytihng....even if it is for a wedding! ha ha.

Now Veida and George are in Hawaii....lucky ducks....

Oh and for the record...Veida is now Veida Uzer-Dima and it will soon be changed to just Dima.....so like Drew Barrymore in The Wedding Singer...who played Julia soon to be Goglia Veida is going to be Veida Dima.....silly names that sort of Rhyme....that is a Veida way to pick it! ha....

First Time For Everything

And so, my first attempt with photoshop.......I decided to document Veida's birthday lunch....we laughed and laughed and laughed at this....it is a true story!!!! And check out her eyelash and eyebrow.......too funny!