What an Awful Last Weekend to Spend Here. Day 20 and 21.
So I woke up on Saturday morning after sleeping in more than I should have and packed up all my stuff for a weekend trip to Diamond Bar to visit my cousin. This would be my last weekend here and instead of wanting to go out and explore, somehow I just wanted to stay in and just rest up.
I met up with my cousin Amanda, her husband Leslie, and their daughter Emily for lunch at a Korean BBQ place and had a very interesting lunch. Then we drove to the Beverly Center and walked around. Emily, who loves dogs, spent a good hour just looking at dogs. We let her run wild and tried chasing her around, but she was just too fast for all of us. After a whole hour of this, we were all extremely tired and Emily was the only person still up and running. I managed to run off and get myself a vest and a jacket to get me through my last week in LA in case the weather stayed cold, windy, and rainy for the rest of my stay.
We then headed back to Diamond Bar and just as we got in the car, we asked Emily if she wanted a nap. After a resounding no, we placed her in the car seat... but before we pulled out of the parking lot, she was already asleep. We got back and I watched the end of the Clippers game before watching one of my favorite movies, "Pretty Woman" and falling asleep.
The next morning, I woke up and helped make pancakes and helped eat them too! We headed out to another mall so Emily could ride the merry-go-round and went to a small Japanese noodle house and ate lunch. Then we headed back home and I caught up on some work.
Later on, I got an e-mail from one of the alums that helped me find housing in LA, and she invited me and the Larrys over to her house for dinner on Wednesday night.
I packed up my stuff and we stopped at Curry House before I came back home to prep for another week of work. As I was preparing, Sheldon Larry came in to talk to me for a while. The rain was still going as I was checking my e-mails. He was like, "What an awful last weekend to stay in LA," as he pointed out the window.
I do like the rain in small doses, so I smiled a little and realized that I might actually miss LA when I headed back to Boston.