last week

And here I am again. Counting down.

We have exactly a week left in LA. Next week this time we'll hopefully be doing some gambling in Las Vegas!

This past Thursday evening, after a rather exhausting day, Alexander told me to get ready to go for a ride. I saw him looking up directions to Mulholland Drive earlier, but I thought he was planning for us to go the next day.

Some minutes and a couple of songs later, however, we were cruising up the infamous Mulholland Drive.

We past some awesome houses and hillside spaces before stopping at a point where we got an awesome view of downtown LA. The moon was almost full and hanging right over the city. It was an amazing sight and everything felt very right.

We got back in the car and kept on driving past more impressive looking houses. At some point we went round the other side of the hills and our view changed to one of Studio City. It was wicked being able to see two different sides of greater LA at night in one trip.

At times I felt like we were driving round Northcliff in Johannesburg and at others it felt like driving around areas of Cape Town, but mostly I felt completely lost and loved it.

After Mulholland Drive Alexander took me to the 101 Diner for late night dinner. Even though we've been to a couple of diners since I got here, I've been wanting to go out for a burger and shake at a diner, late at night, ever since I got here. So I was pretty thrilled at having this fantasy realized at last!

I had a turkey burger with mashed potatoes (it was an option, I had to try!) and a peanut butter milkshake. Yum! And the setting was perfect, as far as diners go (and there are some pretty cool ones around) the 101 is pretty romantic.

Seen as Thursday was Alexander's last day at work I guess that the drive and dinner was the perfect start to a countdown to our final days in LA. For now.