Showing posts with label johnny depp. Show all posts
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Monday, April 23, 2012

Adventure Weekend Part I: Hip-Hooray for Hollywood!

It really is true what they say: 'When it rains, it pours!' Luckily, I love the rain...especially when 'rain' is a metaphor for out-of-town adventures!!
This past weekend I ventured over the grapevine for the second time this month (two weeks in a row!) This time, not only did I have a travel-buddy...but I was also relieved of any and all driving responsibility. I literally didn't have to do anything but sit back and enjoy the ride! And enjoy it I did!! A good friend and some good music and we arrived in no time! Our destination: Jess's apartment!
Jess had a beach day planned...so after getting settled, and gathering our beach gear we were off to Malibu...but it wasn't nearly as warm as we were expecting (but that didn't stop us from having fun!)
We decided to leave the beach and head back for a little tourist action. Jess lives pretty close to Hollywood, so after she gave us a tour of the studio she works for...we headed into Tinseltown.
I had seen parts of the Walk of Fame before...but it's always exciting to look for your favorite star's star!
'The Producers' have adjacent stars!!
We wandered down the boulevard a bit and all of a sudden there it was:
Grauman's Chinese Theatre!! 
It is so much fun to see all the hand, foot (and sometimes hoof) prints of so many movie legends. I was having a hard time containing my excitement...I mean, almost all my favorites were there: Doris, Bing, Julie, Dick, Danny, Frank, Johnny, Rock...and then there were these three:
The hand, foot & wand prints of Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe & Rupert Grint (aka Hermione Granger, Harry Potter & Ron Weasley!)
The newest addition to my personal Walk of Fame mug collection

We ended the night with delicious burgers at Mel's Drive In...
...the weekend was much too busy to contain to one post, the adventure will continue in part II

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Yo Ho, Yo Ho...

...a pirate's life for me!!
K, not really. I would hate to be a pirate. They smell bad and they're generally not nice people. Even 'good' pirates like Jack Sparrow and Will Turner still 'pillage and plunder and rifle and loot' even if they don't 'kidnap and ravage and not give a hoot'.
I'm not quite sure where I'm going with that...except that somewhere in there I wanted to mention that Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl is probably one of my favorite movies of all time. And my mug will tie-in...I promise!!
My parents brought this back for me from Vegas. It's from the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino. Which used to be pirate-themed...but has gone the way of most Vegas Hotel/Casinos and is now simply sexy themed. Sexy pirates, perhaps...I'm not sure.
Anyway...this was one of the few remnants of piracy left in the gift shop (according to mom)

swash, swash, buckle, buckle...do with this what you will just remember one thing...


"dead men tell no tales"...more to come on Sept. 19

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

You do the math...

I got in the mail today an invitation to a friend's wedding!!
It is definitely wedding season, and being 24, more and more of my peers are tying the knot. I think Captain! Captain Jack Sparrow says it best "a wedding? I love weddings! Drinks all around!!" Okay, maybe not...but weddings are fun times, and I'm always honored when I'm invited to share and celebrate with people on their special day.
I've been to a fair handful of friend's weddings in the past few years, the most recent being about three weeks ago.
But this time the envelope wasn't just addressed to me. No...this time I got 'Lauren Chambers and Guest'.
I've never gotten 'and guest' before so I'm toying with the idea of bringing a 'plus one' to the wedding. But math and I don't exactly get along and I wouldn't want to be minus a 'plus one'. The two options I'm thinking about for my 'plus one' are either 'Jon' or my fabulous friend David...