SLO Times | Please Don't Fall Off Bishop Peak

After all this time in SLO, I finally hiked Bishop Peak on Friday with Megan, Elise, Hayley, and Polina. It was a little bumpy at first, during the initial incline (like it seriously felt like a straight vertical), and then there were rocks towards the top. The rocks weren't so bad, except at the very very top of the peak. My little legs were too short to get all the way up to sit on the rock, so I had help getting pulled up, and then being lowered down when we were leaving. 

Also, Polina slipped and almost fell down the mountain when we were coming down from the top (and we were still basically at the very top). It was right in front of these two ladies who were already iffy about climbing up all the way, and when they saw her slip, they were like "Oh no, no way, turning back now!" Haha. So even though it wasn't funny that she fell, it was still a little funny. But that definitely did not help with my fear of falling off a mountain while hiking. So I definitely will be staying away from the edges from now on. 

WAKE ME UP | Music

These past few days, I've been having some issues with waking up. Usually I have no problem getting up early and I'm usually the earliest one up in the apartment. So to help me wake up I've literally been listening to a few wake up songs while I eat breakfast and get ready for the day. And now they're on repeat every morning. And day. And night. Because I love them sooo much. I feel like Katarina when she finds her new song that she's obsessed over. HAHAHA.

Habits (Stay High) - Tove Lo
Pompeii (Kat Krazy Remix) - Bastille
Change Your Life - Iggy Azalea ft. T.I.
Animals - Maroon 5 ft. J. Cole
Outside - Calvin Harris ft. Ellie Goulding
Stolen Dance - Milky Chance
Heroes (we could be) - Alesso ft. Tove Lo
Torn Apart - Bastille ft. GRADES


And here's a little picture of the San Francisco sunrise, courtesy of Katarina. 

A VERY Belated and Classy Birthday Post

So I'm finally coming back on the blog posting wagon after dropping off it for a while. It's kinda hard to start doing something again after you don't do it for a while. But here we go. 

A week ago was my birthday! And half a week ago was Sydney's birthday! Happy belated birthday to us! And happy birthday to Trisha today! 

I went home for my birthday to celebrate with the family last weekend, and Sydney and I had a joint birthday dinner. It was at this fancy little French restaurant called Tapenade in La Jolla. Of course, our family pretty much took up half the restaurant because there's so many of us. We ate a bunch of fancy food, and had a bunch of yummy wine. Of course, there was a delicious looking birthday dessert (chocolate!!!) I also got the bonus of getting to see GG for like 30 minutes haha. It was fun being at home, even though it was literally for like 1.5 days. See you guys at Thanksgiving!

I got tons of amazing gifts from everybody. Definitely lots of elephant things (thank you Chelsea and my cuzzos and my amazing roomies!) and a polaroid camera (finally!) and other odds and ends and sweet things (we killed that chocolate SO FAST, Polina). THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Then the weekend after that we had some more classy celebrating (and also some not classy celebrating, but I don't have pictures of that haha). We had a little girls' night in SLO at Meze Wine Bar & Bistro. The bubbly was pink and delicious, and they had really good food too. We played some more when we got home. And I got a little carsick. Whoops. Avoid party regret please. And the next day, Maggie made us really really delicious fried eggs in tortilla baskets. YES. And then we all played again.

The End.

Monday Memories Ep. 05 | London Times Part 3

The very last part of our London adventures! I'm actually sad that this will be the last major London post. So many feels with this one.

So we went to Trafalgar Square where there was the huge blue cock/chicken statue. There were also a bunch of awesome Scottish lads singing in the square (there was a football match I think). Like it was our first glimpse into how into football everyone is there, which is awesome. We also went to watch a concert in the episcopal church there. And also there's Kirsten wearing her super cute new dress she got at Topshop lol.

 We spent quite a bit of time in Camden eating and shopping. They had suuuuch good food stands and cheap clothing stalls where we learned the art of haggling.

 Some of us girls at the Nottingham Carnival. Plus some random tall guy on the right. It was super hot that day and super crowded, but it was worth the super long trek to get there.

 The view at Kew Gardens. Hannah pretty much could have lived in the big treehouse there FOREVER. Trees and nature for miles and miles and miles. YAY FOR NATURE!

 HOT DUB TIME MACHINE. Probably one of the best things we did in London, like we still think about it to this day. Nothing beats dancing to music starting all the way from the 50's up to 2013. Seriously, they have to bring this thing to America!

 Also, the street art in London was on point for sure. 

 And one of our last days in London, we all walked down South Bank and went on the London eye together. The view from the top was incredible. And it was only a 10 minute walk from our flat. And it was the perfect last adventure for us.

Last but not least, this has got to be one of my most favorite pictures from the entire summer. The girls (minus Johanna who took the picture!) when we stopped at some random little cafe on our way somewhere. I totally don't remember where it was. Also, sorry GG I have no idea where you were either. 

And now the happy memories from London are finished! Obviously a ton of pictures didn't make the cut, but most of the important things got on here. The feels are still very real though.
I miss you guys! And I miss London.
Definitely will be going back there again someday SOON. Right guys? RIGHT.

Our First Roommate Outing | Santa Barbara

Our apartment gets along really really really well. Like super well. 

It kinda feels like we've known each other pretty much forever, but it's only been a couple weeks. Which is pretty amazing. Whoever put us together was a genius seriously. Anyways, we've gone all around SLO together already and done a bunch of random things, but today we finally went out of town together for the first time!

We all love going to ULTA. Like, even though there's a Sephora in downtown SLO, it's just not the same! We figured out the closest ULTA was in Santa Barbara and decided a week ago that we had to make a trip out there. So this morning, we got up early and made the drive out there. Of course, we got hungry on the way there, so our first stop was at a little Mexican restaurant in Goleta. The food was delicious. Seriously, not as good as San Diego, but still pretty darn good. I honestly had nothing to worry about when I thought there wouldn't be good Mexican food in Central California.

After we ate, we were super energized and ready to go to ULTA. We all got a couple of things, but what I'm most excited about is the Mally's stuff Maggie was showing us the other day. Literally, I can't wait to try it out tomorrow and see! It was a solid and successful day of girly makeup shopping. Since you know, we're all girls and all that.

Also, on the way home, we accidentally took the freeway going south instead of north hahaha. But we figured it out before we got tooooo far, and turned around.

  I mean it's not a road trip unless you get a little lost right?!?! 

GETTING SOME BUM BUMS

Yesterday, my roommates and I decided to do a workout video together LOL. 

It's a little video Megan brought here called the Brazilian Butt Lift, and it's hilarious! Some of the moves are so funny and awkward to do, and the guy calls everyone's butts "bum bums" but pronounced like "boom booms" HAHAHAHA. 

Anyways, we couldn't even make it through one whole workout because it was SO HOT in the apartment. And also, now this morning we're all incredibly sore. Too sore to stand and sit and walk. THAT VIDEO WORKS. 

I think I'm also really sore because Megan and I were doing more handstands yesterday. And squats. And crab walks. And trying to play Leap Frog. But we figured out that Leap Frog doesn't work for the 2 of us, so scratch that off the list.

Dream Diary #32 | SpiderDude NOT Spiderman

I had another Youtube dream. So I arrive at this ice skating rink (which I've dreamt about before) and walk down the stairs to get to the ice. As I'm walking, I see some of Sydney's favorite Youtubers--Kian, Sam, and JC. And I was like, I haveeee to take a picture for Sydney. So I go down and take a picture with them. 

BUT THEN I see Tyler Oakley with fabulous looking light blue/purple hair. It was soooo pretty seriously. Like if I could, I would dye my hair like that. And for some reason, I jump into his arms and he carries me back up the stairs. But really, I don't think Tyler Oakley is that strong in real life, so... yeah. That would clearly never happen. 

Then I really had to use the bathroom and went to use the bathroom at this house. It looked like Grandma's house and was pretty much the same, but Jack and Finn Harries owned it. LOL RANDOM. But they let me use the bathroom before the dream jumped one last time to.....ANSEL ELGORT.

I was going to dinner with some friends, and one of them happened to be Ansel. We had a hard time finding a table at the little restaurant to fit the 4 of us. Like for some reason, all the tables there were really really tiny and could barely even fit 2 people. But we finally found a table, but we started arguing about what movie we wanted to watch. The choices were either SpiderDude (NOT Spiderman, SpiderDude) and this other movie about zombies or something. But yeah I don't even know what SpiderDude is because the movie box looked exactly like Spiderman. Unfortunately, I woke up before we could watch SpiderDude so I'll never know what it was about.

The Failed Prank

So this morning, we all woke up early to try and pull a prank. Only... it failed. HAHA.

It was supposed to be payback for throwing the nut or chocolate or whatever at us. I mean, all we did was try and give our neighbors some jellybeans. Isn't that nice of us?? Jellybeans?? YEAH. And they're delicious ones too. And then they sprayed us with water. (Hopefully it was water.)

SOOO we tried to do the tape on the door thing, except of course it failed because Dan was already up and could hear us putting the tape on. MAJOR FAIL. But just wait, because next time will be better. Muahahaha.

Moral of the story is: make sure nobody's awake yet when you try to put tape on their door.
Also, avoid party regret.