Movie night!

The excitement committee I work on continues to bring the height of entertainment to our coworkers. Tonight was the first of a series of Movie nights! 

It was a kids event so we watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, not that any of the big kids were complaining! 

The best part was making an all-you-can-eat sundae bar using our extra ingredients. 

Sports weekend

With both hockey and football off season all summer, I haven't watched many sports lately. But luckily this past weekend on Anaheim I was able to get my fill!

First up was a more unusual sport, arena football with the LA Kiss

Basically it's indoor football played on a field half the size of a normal football field. It was a very exciting game as pretty much every play resulted in someone scoring. 

The coolest part is the team is owned by Kiss the rock band, so we got to see Gene Simmons. He wasn't too happy that his team lost 84-55, but it was still a fun game.

The next day we went a little more mainstream with a baseball game

Angels stadium was beautiful, and naturally it was perfect baseball weather

The game went into 11 innings and was full of home runs and exciting plays. The Angels finally ended up winning the game after 4 hours of play. Unfortunately by then, my friends and I had some serious sunburns from sitting in the sun all afternoon.

We also took some time to explore long beach, which was just as beautiful as the past few times I have visited 

And of course, we had to get some fancy LA food, going to a "southern" BBQ joint that is suppose to be the best in Southern California 

It was pretty darn good, but I will have to keep trying all the "best" BBQ in Southern California before I can declare a winner. 

Everything wrong with Los Angeles

Why I have a problem with LA....summed up with one picture 

Trapeze in Hollywood

I've been boring the last few weeks, but luckily I have been kicked out of the trend by my new coworker/fellow penn stater. Sunday we hit the road to the coast for a very unique experience.....trapeze

That's me, high flying 3 stories up. For some reason this website doesn't let me post videos, which is sad since I have a few good ones of me doing back flip dismounts.

We flew for 2 hours, doing a simple jump off the platform and swing, to flip dismounts, to attempting catches. Luckily I have no fear of heights or jumping. Sadly, I still need to work on my upper body strength. Still, it was very thrilling to fly through the air. Our instructor said its the best stress relief in the world, and I couldn't help but agree.

It was a big workout, and I sure can feel it in my arms and shoulders today. Luckily we refueled with some local chicken and waffles.

And then no trip is complete to Los Angles without a drive down to the beach

I'll never get sick of the ride down to Santa Monica. The water was perfectly warm and felt amazing on our sore muscles. I didn't realize how much I miss diving under waves and splashing around in the ocean. Most of my friends go to the beach to tan, so it was nice going with people who wanted to swim and body surf. And the view of Santa Monica pier was perfect

A very successful day which ended with some classic Californian In-N-Out burgers and a drive back to Bakersfield.