48 Hours in LA

Happy Friday ya'll! Since I'm on a new schedule at work, and I fly for free (well not really free I work my butt off) I decided to go to LA last Saturday-Tuesday to hangout with my friend Chloe! We met while we were both in Spain studying abroad and we've been the best of friends ever since. She  took me to all of her favorite places in LA. The first day, after a night of In-N-Out obviously, we grabbed some pastries from Huckleberry and headed over to Intellisentsia in Venice. If you're looking for some major hipster inspiration this is a prime spot to people watch. Oh, and the coffee was beyond delicious! We then walked around and window shopped for a bit before catching some lunch at Lemonade. They have tons of pre-made salads so we split a few. We took a yoga class later that night in downtown Santa Monica (I felt so very hip doing yoga in LA).

The second day we started our day with a hike at Runyon Canyon where the weather was sunny and gorgeous and I was dying of happiness to be outside in shorts and a tank top. After freshening up a bit we went to a tapas restaurant where we drank wine and shared our favorite spanish dishes outside. Since most of our study abroad experience revolved around Spanish food & wine, we were the happiest of campers. We then watched the sunset on Venice beach and walked the boardwalk. Since I fly standby, I decided to take the Red-Eye on Tuesday night otherwise I would have been stuck in California. In retrospect it wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world ;)

It was a successful 48 hours in California, but I was happy to be home and see my lovely husband and this little guy (who apparently was happy to see me too!) What are some of your favorite places to visit while in LA or California?
Have a great weekend everyone!
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