Are you
naughty? Do you like to have fun during
inappropriate professional times? If so,
can we be friends? I really like to have
a good time no matter what I’m doing or where I’m going and this includes
business or business-like trips. Just
because you have to travel somewhere for serious reasons doesn’t mean you can’t
have a little fun while there (that is if your boss isn’t breathing down your
neck the whole time).
I’ve had to
take a lot of mini-trips to SoCal this last year for Grad school interviews, job
interviews and apartment hunting (sometimes driving there and back in the same
day). But just because I’ve been
going there for important life changing reasons and have had to drive from
Sacramento to Los Angeles far too many times for not being a truck driver,
doesn’t mean I haven’t made the most of it.
When I went to
Orange County for my CSU Fullerton interview back in April I asked my mom to
join me and we made a mini trip out of it.
I found a deal on Living Social for a Pirate dinner adventure which
included a 3 course meal and a Pirate adventure show. So I bought the deal and we went down to LA
the day before my interview. We arrived
to the hotel, got ready and drank Caribbean Mai Tais with some blimey
pirates. AND I was still fresh-faced and
doe-eyed for my interview the next morning (that’s my story and I’m sticking to
it)!!
The best part
was this 3-course dinner adventure only cost me $66 total ($33 per person) when
it’s regularly priced at $66 per person.
Plus I only paid $45 for the hotel (booked on Orbitz). My total cost for the mini 2-day/1-night trip
was $111. If that price isn’t
pleasurable then I don’t know what is!!
Then I just
went to SoCal again to do some apartment hunting. My friend Rachelle joined me and we made
another mini-trip out of it. Even though
I wanted to make sure I spent most of my time finding my future castle (or a 25
square foot shack, whichever is available), I wanted to have some fun too. We took a Friday off and drove down at the
butt crack of dawn to search for my next humble abode. Amidst the never ending apartment hunting
we went wine tasting which included an appetizer ($11 per person) and to a
dinner & drag show ($21 per person).
Total cost for these adventures was $32 per person whereas they are
regularly priced at about $60 per person (both purchased on living social). We got to taste some delicious wine and eat
some fantastic food as well as witness life changing entertainment in the form
of womanly-dressed men bouncing their body parts and lip synching to (and
dressed as) Madonna, Lady Gaga, Dolly Parton, etc. What could possibly be better than that?
The only thing
better than twerking drag performers was all the good food we ate!!!!! The appetizers at the wine bar were
absolutely delicious. The best
charcuterie plate I have ever had, yummy chicken sliders and such mouthwatering
BBQ pizza made my taste buds dance like happy hungry hippos. The 3-course meal that was part of the
drag-show dinner package was actually pretty tasty and was a lot more food than
I had expected. All in all a very
entertaining weekend with lots of good food makes for a pleasurable while
productive weekend!!
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