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Blind Donkey

Last night we arrived in LA and stayed in a condo our friend hooked us up with.

The plan today was to go to Chases’ house in Long Beach and have a BBQ. Her family made tacos and cocktails for us!

We saw some old and new faces! It was really nice. She’s got a young brother called Jaydon who was the sweetest thing - he gave the best hugs and now that he’s 21, he wanted us to make him cocktails all night long!

After chilling with the family, we went out to a Karaoke bar called the Blind Donkey. It should been called the Deaf Donkey cos jheeeeeze our singing was terrible! But we had a wicked night I can’t lie it was such good vibes and about 30 of us were out.

I took to the stage with Vanessa under my performance name Oriana Grande and sang Maria Maria - Santana.

The karaoke master joined and played the guitar solo! 😂🎸

It was a long 1hr 30 drive back home but tomorrow is a pretty chill day so we’ll see what we get up to!

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Port Hueneme Beach Park

Today was super chill and we really weren’t up to doing much so just did a bit of meeting prep and walked around locally. Where we are staying is just opposite the beach so we went for a walk down the pier. The sun was shining but it was a bit colder than expected, it really does get chilly in the evenings here! After our walk we went and got some Korean food.

We met up with the rest of the crew to visit a couple of shops and went to Target to get some supplies for the next few days when we go snowboarding. We couldn’t resist a little late night snack for tonight so we decided to get some Lucky Charms.. can you believe they had a big size version of Oatly Milk?!! Had a cheeky Yorkshire brew and a bowl of cereal 👌🏽

Tomorrow we go to Big Bear for snowboarding for a few days! Should be a good one!

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Big Bear Lake

Today we checked out of our condo and made the trip to Big Bear Mountain! It took about 2 and a half hours to drive there with a couple of stops as we’re in such a big group!

We carpooled with DJ and Grizelda, some of Matts friends. There were really winding roads so I had to just close my eyes and miss all the sight seeing so I didn’t get travel sick!

The cabin we are staying in is really nice 👌🏽

There are about 25 of us staying in the cabin. We just chilled out and played games. Matts Mum and brother made tacos for us all 🤤

Tomorrow is boarding day. I’m going to do a half day if possible! We’ll see!

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Big Bear Lake

This morning I woke up and decided I wasn’t really feeling snowboarding. I was super tired and just didn’t have the energy mentally or physically to learn something new. A few people were staying behind and just pottering about for the day so I decided to stay with them. We drove around - I don’t know what I was expecting but it’s a proper village of homes and shops that you drive through to get to the mountain.

We went to Starbucks and I had a mango and passionfruit iced tea.

Then we went for a little stroll around the lake and then went to see the group on the slopes for some lunch!