DAY 8 Las Vegas to San Diego

We chilled in Las Vegas in the am and Dane ate pudding and coffee. I ate pudding, chips and salsa, and orange juice. Then at 10:00 am we peaced out of our hotel and drove to LA. We first went to Caltech to visit Jeff Kaplan but he wasn't in his office. To find his office, we found the astro/astrophysics building and literally walked past every office on every floor starting from the bottom until we found his on the third floor. No one seemed to know where he had gone. We left a note for him.

We went to Target to walk around because we were there really early - we arrived around 2 but we had told my brother that we'd be there around 3:30pm, and when we called, he was at some restaurant buying lunch. At Target, I found a cookie monster cap, the summer counterpart to my winter oscar the grouch beanie, but I didn't buy it because it was 16 dollars. That is a lot of money. Instead, I spent $1.09 on a blue icee. I actually wanted the cherry coke one, but then it was too watery so I had to ask food seller lady for another cup. Then I got blue, and filled her up but while I was putting the lid on, the icee exploded all over my hands. So I had to get another cup. I put the lid on first this time. It was great. My hands and face were blue.

Next we went to the Coffee Bean to meet with my brother. My brother had hot coffee and Dane had some sort of hazelnut milky iced coffee drink. Then we went to Borders where Dane spent his entire gift certificate on a map of San Diego. We ate at some Thai restaurant that was pretty good. Then we went back to my bro's apt to chill while we waited for my friend Jeannie to call. Jeannie called and we went to this place called Wurstkuche which sells exotic sausages and beers, a lot like Hot Dougs, but more swanky, and in downtown LA. Jeannie had the rattlesnake and rabbit and Dane and Andrew shared the duck and bacon for second dinner. Finally, we went to some yogurt shop where I had that tart pinkberry like yogurt that I like. Yum.

Then it was 10pm so we dropped off my brother and were on the road to San Diego. It was at this time that I discovered, trying to navigate for Dane, that the pages of his new San Diego key map from Borders were completely out of order. Dane felt angry because it was an $18 map. He says he is going to tkae it back but I think it might be faster to take it apart and put it in order and put it back together.

We arrived in San Diego around midnight and basically said hi to Seth and went to sleep in his grandmother's garage apartment. His grandma's place is SUPER nice. It is basically on the beach @ Del Mar and is really spacious and well decorated, and clearly built to accommodate many guests. I also like the shower, which has tiles with raised relief turtles on it.