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Washington D.C

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I got into Washington DC at 8am and it felt like I walked about 100 miles throughout the day. I started off with the Capitol Building. 

These two R’n’B singers win! They were recording a music video. I don’t think I need to do anymore sightseeing today, nothing will top this!

I heard you might be able to go inside, but I could not be bothered researching that, I felt there was so much to do anyway. Off to the Washington Monument I went.
“Off course the have to renovate it now, when I’m here” I thought as I saw it had turned into a construction site. I later learned it was damaged from the 5.8 earthquake in 2011. So, fair enough…

A glimpse of the White House, but I’ll get back to that later.

The Lincoln Memorial was crowded! A few busloads of school kids must just have arrived.

They had drained the Reflecting Pool, but I could still see some reflection!

I’ve always found the Lincoln Memorial a little creepy. Why does he have to be so huge like? Sitting on his throne looking out over the people.

After the creepy Lincoln, I headed over to Georgetown. The old part of town. I had made my research before hand and learned that Baked & Wired was the best place to find delicious baked goods. There were a huge line out the door when I arrived, and I got a little stressed and disappointed. All I could see was cupcakes. I’ve never been a big fan of cupcakes. I wanted a cream pie, not a stupid cupcake. I couldn’t find anything on the menu that really looked appealing to me, so I just grabbed a gluten free chocolate cupcake, that surprisingly was really good. Coffee was pretty good as well. As I had my coffee and cupcake I finally saw where they were hiding their pies – under the counter! What the hell!

I liked Georgetown a lot, super cute old buildings.

Washington DC has this awesome bike share system, you pay $7 for 24h and you get to use a bike as much as you want. There’s hubs all over the city where you can park your bike and pick up a new one. Brilliant system, I want Los Angeles to adapt this as well!

By 4pm I was already exhausted from all the walking, but I made it to the real reason I came to Washington DC. I had an appointment with Sweden.

After being laugh at by the Swedish ambassador due to my Justin Bieber haircut on the 5 year old documents, I made it out of there. The first beer of the day was way overdue!

I was gonna meet my friend at 7pm in Chinatown, 2.5 miles away from where I was. I was tired, but had plenty of time, so I kept walking.

I walked by the White House, the light from the sunset was really nice.

The White House seem a lot smaller than I was expecting. We have bigger houses than that in Los Angeles, haha!

I walked by the Capitol City Brewing Company. I had to stop in for a beer.

Back to Chinatown!

Off to Washington D.C

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I get to spend the weekend in Washington DC, pretty excited about that since I have never been.

I always have to have a pint of beer before boarding a plane. It helps me fall asleep before they even shut the doors.
I am supposed to be on a gluten free diet, but I can cheat while on vacation. This beer tasted so good!

MyLA311 App Love

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There’s an app called MyLA311 where you can report potholes, objects dumped on the curb and other various small fixes that you think the city have to take care of. A few weeks ago I reported the back alley leading up to our garage. We call it “pothole heaven” as it is pretty severe. I didn’t think they would come out and fix it anytime soon as they pretty much have to resurface the whole street, it’s not just a single pothole that needs to be filled. I still thought I should report it though, so at least they are aware of it. They still haven’t fixed it, and I don’t know if they ever will.
I try to walk home from work whenever I have a chance. I walk on South Robertson Blvd, and it’s filthy. This old palm tree has been laying on the side of the curb for over a year and the last few days I’ve been thinking to myself that I should report it through the app.
I pinged them yesterday and today, 24 hours later, the tree was picked up! It works! That made my day.

Pooltime!

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It’s hot! I now declare it summer. Let’s jump in the pool!
Still trying to figure out how the waterproof camera is working.

After the play in the pool (and a massage) we headed up to Hollywood to see Wes Andersons new movie Budapest Hotel.

Birthday Dinner and Party

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Martin is in town, and it is his birthday so we had to go out for dinner! We went to Osteria La Buca in Hollywood.

I gave up gluten for Lent. Don’t ask me why… You do get one cheat day a week though and my cheat day is Saturday, so a beer was a given. You can’t beat having a drink out of a jar, right?

We headed over to Sawtelle and GR2 that was celebrating 20 years of business.

The Garage

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The search for candidates to run our neighborhood continues! Today we went to the Garage to try our luck.
The first thing the first guy I approached said “The first thing I would do is to kick out all illegal immigrants”. That put me off big time so I was bummed out for the rest of the night. People are stupid.
I had to use the restroom before leaving for the night and discovered they had chalkboards in the restrooms. Brilliant in so many levels! 
We tagged!

I am tired. Who needs a drink?

Finding Candidates

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Where’s the best place to set up camp to find candidates for the election? But at a bar off course!

Finding Candidates

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Where’s the best place to set up camp to find candidates for the election? But at a bar off course!

Run for President!

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I have realized a lot of people have a lot of opinions and like to complain, but when it comes down to it, they are to lazy or “busy” or they don’t wanna take any responsibility, so they don’t really do anything about it. 
I grew up in Sweden and I was, and still am, super proud of Sweden. I did a fair amount of traveling when I was younger so I have seen some of the things that works and not work in Sweden vs other countries. When I spoke to people while traveling everyone seem to envy me, I was lucky that I was born and grew up in a safe, clean and modern country.
I have lived 1/4th of my life in US of A, and more precisely, Los Angeles. While I think Los Angeles is kind of awesome, it’s not safe, clean or anything remote to modern. I really do think the system here is broken.
I have a lot of opinions when it comes to human rights and the environment and what really broke me was all the filth. It’s so freaking dirty in Los Angeles. I don’t wanna live in a dump, I wanna be proud of where I live. I want to take friends and family that come to visit around and show off a clean and beautiful city. Seriously, it’s not that difficult to clean up after yourself. Also, since Los Angeles is just off the Pacific Ocean, all our filth end up poisoning the ocean.
I live in Palms Neighborhood, together with about 30 000 other angelinos. I wanted to be involved in the neighborhood, making it safer and cleaner. I thought I’d ease myself into it so I liked their faceboook page and a little over a month ago responded to a “Sign up to volunteer” post. I had no idea what I signed up to. All of a sudden I was assigned the Election Chair. I have been going to meetings and learned a lot. It is a ton of fun, and really not that difficult to make a difference, just take 2 hours of your life, go to a meeting and raise your opinion! 
We have a board election in May, and as the Election Chair, I have to make sure people sign up and run for the board seats and then campaign for people to actually go and vote.

ABC Casa

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Today was the end of an era. We said our last goodbye to the ABC Casa. A and C moved out over a year ago, but B is moving out next weekend so we had a last party.

As you can see, I have some serious model skills and are super comfortable in front of the camera…
Ok, I am out of here.