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Bridge to Nowhere Hike

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I was tired this morning at 4:30am when the alarm went off, but we had a hike to do and it was all professionally arranged so we had to be there early to sign off our lives.

It was a lot of people to go through, but after a bit of waiting around, off we went.
We had to cross a creek 6 times, everyone was trying to figure out if we eventually could cross the creek and still stay wet.


It was an easy hike, but since it was such a big group of people, we sat down after 2.5miles/1hour, to let everyone catch up.

By the 3rd time we had to cross the creek, everybody knew there was no way of even trying to keep dry, just walked straight through. It was actually kind of nice as the heat had started to pick up.
Clear water! Looks like were somewhere else, not in dirty Los Angeles.

After 2 hours of a fairly easy hike, we reached our goal, the bridge to nowhere.

Some people decided to do a bungee jump off the bridge, some people decided to sign up their brother to do a bungee jump. I made a bungee in New Zealand 9 years ago and promised myself I’d only do another jump if I got paid to do it.


Looking down at the cliffs where they soon will throw themselves out over.
Monkey was first to go.


We who did not jumped waled down to the creek to chill and watch the crazy people from a different view. The water looked super cold, but it wasnt cold at all and it was super nice to cool off in the heat.


The brother was next to go, the one who didnt really want to go, but therese are the kind of things older siblings sign you up to do.


The Geico did 3 jumps.






And so did the cow, with style!




Cooling down before the 2 hour hike back to the cars.

An Evening of Openings

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Rilakkuma came to town and we stopped by to say hello. Rilakkuma = relaxing bear, he was just hanging out in the corner being cute!

Free cake balls for the first 100 guests, yum!
Takoyaki Tanota food truck was outside, first time I tried it.
The round shaped shells are made from eggs and flour and on the inside there are octopus pieces and a mix of veggies, and then topped with a bunch of crap. Delicious!
Then we headed to Culver City and the LeBasse gallery and an exhibition opening.

If you had $60k to spare, and a big enough room, you could take this wall piece with you home:

Once we were done at LeBasse, we heard there was another exhibition at the Corey Helford Gallery down the street.

My favorite, the Usual Suspects
Ramen at Sawtelle at 11pm, sweet!

Birthday Girl

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On Wednesday, Facebook told me it was my friends birthday today. It seemed like she had no particular plans for the evening so I invited her and her husband over for dinner. First I was thinking it’d just be us but then I thought “What the hell, it’s her birthday!” and invited a few friends we have in common as well. Since it was already late Wednesday night when I started my planning, I didnt think a lot of people would have time to stop by, but it turned out no one else had plans for the Friday night either so the birthday girl was happily surprised when everyone started to arrive.

We moved a couple of months ago (photos of the new place will hopefully be up soon) and finally after 4 years in the US, I found a kitchen that I fell in love with and got inspired to start cooking again, this was another reason I wanted to have friends over!

I also made ice cream, home made ice cream is so freaking good!

Birthday girl is opening presents!

Twitter Party

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We were hosting a Twitter party for our followers at work. It’s a weird thing, but our followers loves it; it is basically a one hour live chat where people can ask questions to the owner/developer/CEO. I just had to make sure everything was running smoothly and answer any questions that came in in regards to our online store and any other general questions I could answer.

Downtown LA

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Downtown LA is pretty amazing, lots of great architecture, very different from the rest of LA. It’s great to walk around and take photos during the day, but it’s very unsafe when the night falls.

It turns out LA have a bunch of sister cities, none of them are Swedish though.
Los Angeles City Hall
Little Tokyo is part of downtown, it’s pretty small, but great, cheap food and a bunch of interesting stores.


Sushi for lunch, and this is when my camera decided to stop working, it wouldnt read the memory card. It happens from time to time and I usually just take the card out and plug it back in for it to start reading again, but today it just refused to co-operate. I tried everything that came to my mind; taking the memory card out, taking the battery out, try another memory card… nothing worked and I was bummed out. I think I’m gonna have to start saving up for a new camera.
Since I was so bummed out my friend let me borrow her camera for a while, as she didnt really want to take photos anyway, she just wanted to hang out and check out the buildings.







We had planned to check out Chinatown as well, but stumbled upon MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art.
I read about this in design history class and should know more about it, but what I remember on top of my head is that it’s 1930 something, De Stijl movement, it’s Dutch and it’s cool.
Jackson Pollock, 1940 something, American, alcoholic and I don’t get it – anyone could do this! The ones who knows think this is awesome though for some reason. I just keep on thinking of Big Lebowski when I see Pollocks paintings.

Watermelon Vodka Birthday Party!

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It was my friends birthday and I was invited to a “Watermelon Vodka” party, it sounded a little scary to me but got a little relieved when I heard it was a watermelon and vodka party, not watermelon flavored vodka. When I got there I found out it was actually watermelon that was soaked in vodka. I’d been soaking since Saturday, and I tasted a piece that did not taste anything like vodka, so I thought it’d be beneficial for me to stay away from it.

But there were plenty of other yummy food!



Welcome Home!

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Came back from Argentina with all bags intact and only one hour delayed. It was nice to come home to piece and quiet!

Cerro Catedral day 2

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I never wanted to go to bed last night, so much to chat about! But when everyone else was tucked up in bed and I only heard some occasional mhmm from the bunk beds, I thought it might be time.

It kept on snowing throughout the night, but we saw some blue spots on the sky when we woke up. We were all really tired in the morning but quickly forgot about it when we started to bread the fresh mountain breeze.

Due to the heavy snowfall, even more lifts were closed this morning. We wanted to get to one part of the mountain to another. You can usually do this by a chairlift that was closed today, or by going all the way down to the base and go up with another lift. We didnt want to go down and stand in line again, it’d be a lot quicker if we just traversed around that peak… We asked the ski patrol where we could hike and ski, they said we could go anywhere we wanted expect for one peak that he pointed out for us. He also told us to YouTube why:

We took his word for it and traversed over our little peak, it was not very far, and not very steep and wooha, a whole field open up!





Tagging the mountain is always fun!


This was the last day of skiing and the time went by way to fast. Me and Danny are preparing for a long trip back to LA while Magnus and Johan are gonna stay for another 3 weeks.

Cerro Catedral

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Cerro Catedra, South Americas largest ski resort is located 19km from Bariloche, sweet, thats a 30 minute drive tops! Hmm, that’s if everyone had their chains on, and/or knew how to drive in a heavy snow fall… Oh well, that’s not the case so we sat back, relaxed and watched the chaos.

A little delayed, but safe and sound we made it up and were ready to hit some fresh powder.

But wait, due to the heavy snow (and it kept on dumping) they just had to dig out the lifts first!

Fortunately, only half of the system was snowed in, and we had plenty of snow to play in until they had found the rest of the lifts.





We found an open field with untouched snow, we just had to traverse over to the next peak. Traverse over is a piece of cake for skiers, but a pain for boarders. Magnus gave Geico one of his poles to help keep the hight and speed, but Geico still didn’t make it all way and dropped down early. Magnus was happy anyway, now he got a chance to show us how they use to ski with just one pole back in the 19th century.






One more powder day down, 4 out of 4, not bad at all!
We had a bunch of things to take care of after the mountain today, me and Danny are heading back to US tomorrow so we had get our things together, go to the supermarket to pick up snacks, find the bus station where our bus will leave from tomorrow, get a postcard for my grandfather, get some chocolate, shower, check email and flight reservations and play dominoes. All in this order and it had to be done before 9pm, we had dinner reservations and were told that if we were 5 minutes late we would loose our table.
We hit the supermarket on our way down from the mountain, drove around for a while trying to find the bus station when we realized that all that time we had was not gonna be enough!

Change of plans… lets find a postcard and the bus station tomorrow! It would be a bummer not to be able to buy chocolate, but I would still survive, let’s just get back to the hostel to shower and get our stuff together.
Quickly check e-mails and flights, no time for dominoes! Heading for the italian restaurant that we all were super excited about when we saw the big chocolate store was still open! Jackpot!


We fooled around for a while before we realized we’d loose our reservation and had to run the last few blocks to the restaurant.

Ice cream for dessert!

We found another irish bar and introduced Danny to the world of Pisco Sour.

Exclusive chocolate at 3:30 am, best thing ever!