it's a bitch convincing people to like you

so i apparently took like 289 pictures on my recent adventures down south. and, most are - as pointed out by my colleagues - of very random things. here, i shall attempt to show a smattering of those random things, with which i will provide a very colourful colour commentary. enjoy, cause this thing is going to take me forever. (or, as they say in the sandlot, forrr-ehhh-verrrrrr)
















we got into la pretty early, and were greeted by a sign that was made just for us welcoming us to the great city. turns out they don't tell you things on the sign, like how their rain smells like sewer, or how some denny's waiters are really strange. they save that for a different sign that i didn't get a picture of.
















right after we landed, we took a shuttle to the hotel. this is the view from our room - turns out that usually if my hotel room has a view of the parking lot, i think it's pretty shitty. but, since there are palm trees the ugliness is disguised, and all is forgiven.
















our hotel was like a fifteen minute walk from downtown disney - which is a place that i became very familiar with over our stay. turns out that there are a million and one ways to pimp a disney character - look! it's mickey mouse jelly beans! look! it's mickey mouse earrings! look! it's mickey mouse glycerin suppositories! (okay, i may have made that last one up...but i'm pretty sure disney is so thinking about it)
















so this is what i continually referred to as 'the happiest place on earth' during my trip. sephora is pretty much the best store ever. i'm sure that over the course of the week i spent like three hours in there - and my visa can prove it.
















this is me playing with settings on my camera - oooh, artsy. i'm so post-modern.
















so not to sound pretentious - even though we all know i am pretentious - but this is a picture of the mansion in the hills that we partied at one night. yes, mansion. turns out it was furnished with $80,000 couches designed by versace. it also turns out that it was fuelled by an open bar.
















which leads to this picture. of a lovely gent named paul. he was from toronto, and gayer than the hills. at this point, he was dancing on a coffee table, most likely during an 'interpretive dance break'. he kept telling me - or more like yelling in my ear - that i reminded him of someone from toronto. yeah, whatever buddy. oh, did i mention that there was karaoke? yeah, i ended up hosting the evening karaoke festivities. and may i say, the crowed loved my rendition of laura brannigan's 'gloria'.
















so one of the girls i went with had a friend in la. a lawyer friend. who lent her his mercedes, which we subsequently went driving around, thinking we were too cool for school. which, nothing but three pharmacy residents who think they're too cool for school are.
















another highlight of the trip was the $16 nhl game. here is a picture of the goalie warming up, in a move i like to call 'hump the ice like no tomorrow'. the whole arena was warm after that one.
















and here is a banner advertising wienerschnitzel. i'm not too sure why my colleagues think i take pictures of random things. clearly everything in my life is very significant, and those peons just don't understand the meaning of it all.
















one day, we went shopping at the biggest mall i have ever seen. it pretty much gave me an aneurysm. the only thing that could cure me was: a) more cowbell or b) fancy ketchup
















thank the lord for fancy ketchup!
















and in addition to the real happiest place on earth, we actually went into disneyland. which, was pretty much awesome. (minus the exorbitant h20 prices)
















my favourite thing about disneyland is that everyone looks like an idiot. this is a sneaky picture i took of a full grown man wearing a headband. and not just your normal, run of the mill headband...but a tigger headband. complete with ears. (ky, don't even think about it - he was already married)





















it was damon's b-day while in disneyland, so we bought him this shirt. he wore it all day. notice the white trash man on the lazy-boy with remote in hand. best shirt ever.
















damon is very important. some may call him a pimp. mickey knew it was his birthday, and sent a card especially for him.





















tigger was ballin' by splash mountin, sayin' 'hey-yo' to everyone. note his festive christmas hat.





















and of course, no trip to disneyland would be complete without a picture of the ever elusive, exquisite, educational, everlasting, entrepreneurial, elongated, edwardian, eager: doughnut tree. (from which comes all doughnuts)















and lastly, it's a blurry castle. anticlimactic, perhaps. but frankly, that's the best picture that my cruddy camera took of that stinking castle.

so, that's kind of my trip in a nutshell. i have many more pictures where those came from, but i need to get some real work done tonight.

happy tuesday, y'all!