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Final LA post/pictures

Okay so I know I said back to the real world but I just had to find out the names of some of those people I saw. So I googled the event and found wireimages.com with the professional pictures. So I figured I steal some pics from there and the names to show you who I saw. And of course there are my pictures of Rodeo Drive and some nice sunrise and sunset from my hotel room. This is the real invitation. To bad there was no ticket in it :(. Here are two of my colleagues we were watching in the Lobby to see who was coming when a certain Saturday Night Fever star headed right to where we stood. Yep you guessed it. Doesn't he look fabulous now imagine him standing 3 feet away from you.We saw the croc man in the lobby too but not Bindi.

We waited a little longer upstairs but didn't see anyone else. So we headed down the escalator (just like the stars) and went to check on our dinner. It was right there where everyone came the escalator. Dinner didn't seem half as appealing as seeing some more stars so I went out in the hall way and waited to see who came down. I remember seeing a woman (Naomi Watts) in this dress but I would never have known who she was. I did see him and knew he was somebody but had no idea who. He (Liev Schreiber) is one of the reasons I went to look up the photos. I saw these guys (The Wiggles) coming of the escalator and again had no Idea who they were until I saw the caption on Wireimage. He (Dominick Purcell) is the guy from Prison Break. I saw him going down and then he was back up on our level and I could have totally taken his picture but I was to busy trying to remember why he looked familiar. (bad paparazi!)Wonder if he yelled at them to or if this was reserved for moi.
Well there were lots more and if you want to see them all - the press pics anyway go here. Somewho I did not recognize a single female mhhh wonder if that means anything???????

So here are some nice sunrise pictures from my hotel room.


Check it out ROdeo Drive. It looks beautiful and the stores look very chic. I doubt I'll ever go shopping here for real so.


I thought this was totally cool. This is the Prada store and they have a display in the ground it kind of made me dizzy but still cool.


I went to the mall near my hotel in Beverly Hills and couldn't pass up this shot. I am kind of upset that all my other photos with my cell didn't turn out - I mean my John Travolta one didn't but this does? I am almost convinced that they did something to the lights in the hotel since none of my pictures turned out not the cell phone ones or the one with my actuall camera!!!!!!!

I saw him, her ...

Okay so this was fun I spend the better part of the night star gazing. While still in the lobby I saw J o h n T r a v o l t a he went down the elscalator next to me. He looked good totally trim and young. Then I saw the guy from P r i s o n B r e a k (D o m i n i c P u r c e l l, some girl from 6 f e e t u n d e r, another guy that is in a lot of suspense thrillers, S t a n f o r d from S e x i n t h e c i t y ... and



R u s s e l C r o w (grey Jacket). He actually talked to me he came down the escaltor and was fuzzing with his cloths when I took a picture and he said "Don't do that again!" Sadly the fotos I took of him John and the others didn't turn out. The one I got in trouble for was the better one so thats the only one I am posting. Anyhow it was fun to see all the dressed up people. now its back to the real world and homework.

R E D C A R P E T update

okay so I went downstairs to check things out and stumbled onto the sound check of the V E R O N I C A S. They were playing the song 4 e v e r you can listen to it on their website. I love their sound the radio station I listen to online from my hometown in Germany plays them a lot. They got a great fresh rock/punk sound. I did take a little video just for you all.

(if it doesn't load to go my youtube (dino0477) profile it will play from there
I did not go to close to the door because I was afraid they'd make me leave and maybe take my phone.
I went back down after the meeting but they had already finished I did manage to take some shots of the empty carpet. I am not sure how close I'll get tonight. The said everyone will enter through the lobby and then go down so I will go and see ...

I am in total star fever

Yes I am that shallow but you dont understand. I would never go star hunting but I dont have to check this out...

This is the level where I have my meetings and that is where the stars are going to be tonight!!!
They have the Australian Week here in LA and a big Black Tie dinner in MY hotel. They have already set up a tent outside to prevent paparzzis and the ecalator is blocked of from the bottom level which is where I assume that they arrive (I'll investigate it in just a minute and report back). The website says Russel Crow will be here and others. I haven't been able to find out a time but I am hoping it will be around when my meeting is over so I have reason to be on that level and wont get escorted out.

There is no "I" in team

Okay so I guess asking for an uneventful trip was a bit to much. We landed in Charlotte, NC 15 minutes early I went and got my Caribbean Passion Smoothie from Jamba Juice (love that place that why I fly through Charlotte and not Philly) and strolled over the C concourse to catch my plane when I glanced at the monitors there is was FLIGHT CANCELED WTF. So I went to the nearest counter to see whats up and sure enough my flight was canceled. The next one was in 3 hours - 3 friggen hours while I have yet to go to sleep and I am sooo tired. So I find my new gate (at least I was still in first class!!!) But there is no power outlet so I go across plug myself in and try to get online - NOTHING. WTF I couldn't get on. So I could have gone up the main part but I was to tired. So I popped in Bridget Jones Diary #2 and waited for the flight. Once on the plane things got a little better well it was first class after all. Of course by the time I get to LA there was no car for me since I was hours late. I finally got into my room which I had switched to a double since Rosa was coming. I have an awesome view from the 17th floor all the way to the ocean. I went to check my school work just to notice that the team was super behind so after a quick nap I went to work on it. I stopped to go down for dinner which was okay I met some of the coordinators I have known for years and then took some food up for Rosa. She came around 9 and brought me present s in the form of a cable car filled with Ghirardelli squares (yummy!!!) Well I am off to be d it s past midnight and my meeting starts at 8am.

Here is Rosa eating the dessert I brought along with her dinner.

why am I the only one here?

So I am on my way to LA right now. I haven't had a trip since all that stuff with the liquids happend and believed my coworker that I should be at the airport earlier because things take longer now. I printed my boarding pass yesterday - got a nice surprise I fly first class from North Carolina to LA!!!! Anyhow my flight this morning is due to leave Virginia at 5:40am generally I'd leave the house at 5am but with all that stuff I decided to play it save and leave around 4am. I never did get to bed since I had homework, laundary, packing ... well you get the idea. I didn't get out of the restaurant until 10 either which didn't help. So anyhow I get here there is ONE person ahead of me in the security lane? I pull out my laptop, take my shoes off, pull out my zip lock baggy with my 3oz cosmetics and walk through security. I am downstairs about 4:40ish and there is noone here. No people no attendants. I so could have stayed home longer AGGGGGGG. Well lets home the rest of my trip is as uneventfull.