Fog in a beach .

February 12, 2018

Sometimes you just need to live a life of someone else. To run away from your routine and chores and just to wear different shoes. I loved our dog sitting vacation in L.A. I can truly name it as one of my favourite trips! That's how much I enjoy it.

Pretending as if I was the owner of these two awesome dogs, taking care of them was more then a pleasure. It gave me eyes to a different world and I felt inspired :) I won't lie that it was hard to get up at 7a.m. and feed them and go for a walk, but I never regreted it! I would forget about my sleep and laziness the moment my feet touched slippers. And!! I would be thankful for taking me out so early in the morning, because every morning we experienced such a different mood in Venice beach :) Starting from a sunny and warm morning on our first day spicing it with fog. Pretty cool :)

Can you resist to these beautiful eyes? :)

Ohhh, I don't even know where to start and how to describe my experience in Universal Studios. Good? Too weak.

Amazing? Too casual.

Mind blowing? Close.

Hallucinatory? YES!! Strong enough to keep together everything! It feels like you entered some kind of miracle world. Where you will find surprises around every corner. Isn't this great?? My favourite was a ride at Harry Potter world. You have to enter Hogwarts Castle and it's dark since the very first step. You actually feel like you are new student there and everything what you saw in a movie is real!! All this magic came alive with a help of 3D and VR effects. OMG!!! On this ride I couldn't stop laughing and screaming because I liked it so much! I turned to Youn with the biggest smile ever to say how much fun it was and on his face you could see a look 'I'm never doing this again' ;D Haha, like an old man ;D

We also tried butter bear which was really delicious and... we wanted to buy a doughnut at the Doughnut Shop but these were humangous!!!! Too big too big... haha :)

January is really great time to visit Universal Studios especially in the middle of the week, all line-ups were pretty short. Our longest wait was 25min for Universal Studios tour ride but all the other ones were fine. They also do offer express entry ticket, that I would consider buying if going there again in summer time. We spend there good 4hours and I feel like it's more then enough :)

Take a look to magical world :)

Salty evenings ☼

February 5, 2018

Uh, ah,mmm~~ Sunsets in a beach are always the best!!

Our second day in L.A. we started by visiting Lituanica shop with Kara and Erin. They were interested to see what they can try out. The funniest thing was when they bought "Vytautas" mineral water and tried it ;D I couldn't stop laughing :) I explained that this is natural water with no added salt and people use it for hangover.

There was an aquarium shop next to this Lithuanian shop. We all went inside to see little fishes :) My favourite so far was Domino fish. It's all black and has white dots. Looks really cool and I don't know why but I didn't even consider to take a photo of it:/

After that our friends left to airport and we took motorcycle and went to Mulholland Hwy, Malibu. Appearently there are couple Mulholland Hwy in L.A. but we took the one close to Malibu Springs. It was a beautiful road, pretty empty, going in between mountains. We took Mulholland Hwy and then went all the way up to Little Sycamore Canyon Rd. Which is full of hiking trails and then ended up at Yerda Buena Rd. This road connects back to Hwy 1 and next to it there is Neptune's Net Food. It's a very popular spot for bikers and it is also famous because 'Fast and Furious' used this spot for their episode :) I have to say that the end of this road was somehow similar to European Alp roads. With very narrow passes and rocks on the road.

Our final destination was Point Dume cliffs next to Zula beach. I had no idea that this spot is pretty popular for film makers. When we arrived there was a whole film crew filming. Luckily they did this further from cliffs so we were able to get close to it. Interesting fact - this cliff was used in 'Planet of the Apes' movie.

People were climbing up and down this cliff and at least 5 drones were flying around!! Including Youn's too;) Another perfect day and a nice ride back home where dogs were waiting for us :)

Give yourself a break .

February 1, 2018

This is a part II after our wonderful morning :)

Sunsets after rainstorms are the best! You can still feel and see rain turning into fog and just sitting above city. No rush for a fog:) Same Wednesday evening we rushed to get to Griffith's Observatory to see a setting sun.... as a million other people. The Observatory is located on a slope of Mountain Hollywood. It's a perfect combination if you want to see sunset over L.A. and of course to get a picture with 'Hollywood' sign behind you :) We arrived pretty late, but luckily we already had Youn's cousin motorcycle so skipped all the car line ups (Thank you Jenny!!!).

We took photos first as it was more important and then went inside the Griffith's Observatory. The entrance is free and inside there you can see cool things. I believe they also do tours with a guide but the place was about to close so no tour for us:/

The play mode before our leave to buy helmets and to get motorcycle. All the time these two buddies were so full of energy and wanted to play nonstop!! :)

My shiny L.A. glasses that I bought in Venice Beach :)

We finished our night going out with friends to eat tacos on a street and then to local pub :)

I can't believe we did all this on our first day!

The road less travelled .

January 24, 2018

New Year new trips. Second week in this year and we are going to airport for our dog sitting trip to L.A. Honestly visiting cities was never my priority, because I prefer nature, hiking and camping, etc.. But this sounded like a nice way to escape rainy days in Vancouver and a great opportunity to discover L.A. Who could say no? :)

I have to admit that on our fourth day in L.A. It seemed that we’ve been here for at least two weeks. City is huuuuge and you can find anything you want to satisfy your needs. We did so many things I can’t even believe now.

We arrived late Tuesday night so had no chance to see the city in a daylight. Next day we woke up pretty early because dogs were excited (didn't let us sleep :) ) and we decided to go for a breakfast on a Venice beach while our friends left to work.

I was so amazed by neighbourhood! More like amazed! It felt like I'm somewhere in South Europe even though it looked like it's a mix of everything starting with traditional American houses and some Spanish touch, ending with very artistically looking ones. Every single house had a character. I took so many photos that morning. Lightning was perfect and I felt inspired to capture every single moment.

Morning coffee and a sandwich on a beach? For sure!:) and a pickle??? How wonderful life is? ;}

Enjoy!

My model :)