Last weekend I went to LA with one of my absolute best friends, Sarah!
We both work for Google Fiber so we were able to go out and work from the Venice Beach office and it was incredible! I have only ever actually been to LA for a couple hours so it was so great to actually be able to go and see the city.
I loved every bit of it!
Sarah did a dang good job at coming up with an itinerary prior to the trip so we could make sure we hit up all the places we wanted to see.
Maybe it all revolved around food.. maybe it didn’t.
Sarah’s sister Mary is going to law school out at USC so we stayed with her and she was just the best host of all time!!
I mean she picked us up from the airport at 8am and our first stop was California Donuts. That’s true love right there.
I have always wanted to try California Donuts and I really did love them. My favorite was probably the Reese’s one.. that place sure does know how to make their donuts!
The Venice Beach Google Office was a big dream. I could go off on the food there for 30 minutes alone but I think you all would close your browsers faster than I could say “salad bar”.
I will, however, just tell you guys that the food was delish and I also loved how “beachy” they made the office. They had darling surf boards, murals etc. to make it feel like you were on the beach. I loved it.
Mary lives at a place she deemed as The Lawft
(because she’s going to Law School.. and it’s a loft.. get it? lol)
How sweet is she though with that welcome gift basket! She’s just the biggest gem.
Her place was RIGHT by the LA Temple so it was incredible to walk by/see it everyday.
On our first night we ate Mexican Food, saw all the pretty flowers, and walked around The Grove shopping center.
How pretty is that bougainvillea?!
And those sisters of course.
Run at Runyon Canyon
Obviously one of my absolute highlights of the trip was seeing all of the incredible murals & walls. I am just the biggest fan of ALL COLORFUL WALLS EVERYWHERE!
We even got to a point where Mary would be driving and say,
“Ooh! That’s a cool wall. Let’s go get a pic for Liv.”
Lol. What can I say? They all make my day!
One day walking around Venice Beach I found a store called Will Leather Goods. They handed out free chocolates so it is now my new favorite store of all time.
Another wall…
My bad.
My bad.
While walking down an alley way behind a restaurant we saw this cute little space and wanted a picture in front of it. When I saw a blonde girl leaving the back of the restaurant I was literally ON THE VERGE of asking her to take our picture … then she turns around and it’s JESSICA SIMPSON.
Don’t worry, I stopped my sentence before I made a complete fool of myself.
One of my favorite stops on the trip was visiting Manhattan Beach. For some reason I felt like the beach held a very “east coast” feeling.
Which is really odd because I’ve never even been to an East Coast Beach… so maybe I have zero idea what I’m talking about HAHA! But I loved the entire feeling of it.
Just a heads up that I am going to write a post soon ENTIRELY on the food we ate in LA.. which is both extremely embarrassing & absolutely salivating at the same time.
If you saw my Snapchat you saw that we literally ate at 6 different places each day.. ha! We love our food.
However, THIS ice cream needed to be documented ASAP. Hands down.. the BEST Ice Cream I’ve ever had. It was at Grand Central Market and I would be lying if I told you I haven’t dreamed about it since I’ve had it….
We’ve always wanted to visit the Beverly Hills hotel so we loved going and having (sharing) breakfast there one morning!
I felt like we were in year 1912 and I was lovin every second of it.
Everything is pink, striped, and plams around the entire hotel resort. Sarah’s heaven!
I loved my entire LA experience and wouldn’t of wanted to share with anyone else besides Sar. She is moving to Tennessee in 3 weeks and I can’t even talk about it without tearing up! She was the best travel buddy! Her husband is starting DO school this July and I am so excited for their adventure coming up.
Post with all the food coming soon 🙂
Details:
Black Romper: Gap Fitness romper
Sunglasses: Madewell
Sarah’s floral pants: Revolve Clothing
Flip flops: Rainbow sandals
Sarah’s palm romper: Old Navy
Sandals: FRAU shoes (my new absolute favorites!!)
Blue striped sweatshirt: Deseret Industries
White dress @ Bev Hills: ASOS
Sarah’s white dress @ Bev Hills: J.Crew
Sarah’s lemon swim top: Swim Outlet
Black swim top: Old Navy
