Amanda's adventures: May 2006

hiking

Hiking in the trails of hollywood....
There's a creepy old burned down youth camp with only the chimney left standing. There are even still a few bed frames left inside....creepy.

fun nights

just a few pics of me and the pals hangin' out at the No Bar in North Hollywood.

lovely roommates

This is, by far, the best picture taken of my roommates as of yet. (and Michael in the background)

Happy Campers

Note 1: Those guys look alot more frightening than they really are....(and then there's Sean Penn #2)
Note 2: The reason Andrea is in EVERY single picture is because it was her birthday and she made sure it was known to everyone. lol.
Note 3: Whenever my friend Michael and I get together, everyone makes us perform. We make a great improv team. And whenever a guitar is involved, you wouldn't believe the songs we come up with.
Note 4: You're better off just not asking about the pic with Bryan and Monica....lol. I'll just say I'm the most normal person out of all of us....hahaha.

Just some pics.

So here's a few pics - Andrea is holding Patty, the little Chihuahua, and also a big group pic....there are still some people missing from that picture. Altogether there were 19 of us, not including all the visitors that showed up....

There's Monica, Andrea and I - Me and my friend Michael probably in the middle of improvising the birthday song we made up for Andrea - And finally, one of the two Sean Penn look-a-likes that showed up

Oh, the people I meet.

So, I just got back from camping today and I have come to a realization - I have inherited my mom's amazing ability to attract crazy people. Really crazy people.
Take Don for instance.
Don is in his 50's, and hangs out up in Monte Cristo (the campground). He walks around with his little chihuahua Patty, who I might add, is the coolest, most chilled out chihuahua I have ever seen.
We were sitting around the campfire mid-afternoon when he spotted us. He approached us with a sortof psycho grin on his face, picked up his dog and put it in my friend Shannon's lap and sat down. He was very lonely. I don't remember all of our conversations, but I will say that one of his stories consisted of him smoking "chronic" and sh-tting himself in his truck.
Yeah.
I also remember him saying that they wanted him to be camp host, and I asked him if they were going to pay him.
"No", he said.
"Oh, well, why don't you just do it so you can get a break on your taxes, AND you get to hang out in a campground" (I don't know I was just making stuff up)
"I don't have to pay my taxes because I'm disabled."
"Oh, really? How are you disabled?"
I was expecting him to say that he had a low IQ or something like that, but instead he said, "Doesn't my head look WAY too big for my shoulders?"
"Nooooo..."
It didn't. At all. I was frightened.
And that was the end of that.
We also met ALOT of other people, like the guy who was in a band in LA and played AWESOME guitar and his crazy drunk girlfriend kept hitting on EVERYONE. And flashed everyone.
There were the boyscouts who mocked me by the creek because we told them we were vampires.
And then there was this guy who talked non stop. And when I say non stop, I went to bed really late the first night and I could hear him talking and then I woke up only to still hear him talking. Seriously. He didn't leave the campfire. He also had some friends, one, who looked like Sean Penn played the guitar all night and who later his friend Julio told me that he said he "Wanted to git wit you."
Ahh yes. I just had to share these amazing experiences.
Oh the people I meet.

hello from LA

Sometimes when we get bored in Burbank, we cruise around in my friend Michael's mustang and try to look "Hollywood". Other times, we cruise around late at night and hunt for UFO's. Haven't seen any yet.