 Good morning everybody. Welcome to another vlog. Don't mind how shocking my skin tone is. Um, I self tanned last night and I need to rinse it off, but I wanted to work out first. It is Wednesday. I just finished up my morning walk and I'm sweating profusely. I'm having my favorite smoothie. It's like, oh, I literally look forward to this so much. Like my morning routine. Oh, it just hits. This is gonna be a really busy vlog. There's like a lot going on right now. We will talk more about it in a bit, but first things first. I can't look at myself in this viewfinder. Looking this orange. So let's shower first and get ready. All right, showered. Feeling much better. I'm just gonna curl my hair real quick and then jet over to the thrift store. I'm actually meeting Alexa at the thrift store. Um, it's her birthday tomorrow. And so she's coming to meet me here in LA and then we're gonna do like a little staycation. So the two of us are gonna stay in like a cute little hotel, this like kind of boutique hotel that we saw. I'm curling my hair in a different mirror because this is the mirror, but I need the shelf to film. Anyway, um, but unfortunately something has come up with Layla's health and she needs to go to the vet today. So Alexa's on her way right now. We're gonna meet at the thrift store and then I'm gonna bring her back to my place. We're just gonna chill for a little bit and then Drew and I are gonna take Layla to the vet because she needs to be seen today. I don't really want to go into it right now. Um, yeah, I'm just not in a place where like I'm ready to talk about it, but pretty much right when we get back from the vet, Alexa and I will dip again and we'll go check into our hotel and all that fun stuff. So yeah, I'm trying to keep my spirits high. There's just, ah, it's like chaotic, but I did, you know, make time for myself this morning. I like went for my walk, drank my smoothie. That always helps. Just gives me a little bit more of like a feeling of routine, you know? But yeah, I'm so excited for like some girl time and also Alexa and I have appointments tomorrow to get tattooed. So you're gonna see that in this vlog. We're getting more tattoos. We haven't gotten any together since we were in England last year. So it's gonna be really fun. There is an artist on Instagram that both Alexa and I really like and we follow and she's doing like a flash special. So we're each doing like a flash of hers and that's gonna be my birthday present to Alexa. So it'll be really fun. So I'm just finishing up doing my hair now. I feel like curling my hair, like my shorter hair with the flat iron is just so much easier and I like the way it looks a lot better. So that's kind of what I've been doing. I have about, hmm, I'm gonna leave in like 10 or so minutes and I'm gonna just try to like get together some more things to pack because I will be staying overnight in the hotel. We just thought it would be like a fun little thing to treat ourselves. So yeah, I need to pack my overnight bag for that and then hit the road. All right, we're all ready. Got my outfit of the day on. I have my same necklaces from Walmart that were in the last vlog. My earrings are from, I think Nordstrom. My mom got them for me on my birthday. I have my little Amazon sunglasses. Got my actually old Navy nightgown. This is pajamas from old Navy, but I love it. And then I've got my little brown cowboy boots on feeling very Southern girly today and we're gonna head out and go to the thrift store. So it's probably going to be like sporadic footage, if you will, because I'll be filming a main channel video, but we will catch up with you when we're done. So let's go to the thrift store. Okay, forgive the AC sound, but it is freaking hot today. We just finished up at the thrift store. It's been so good to reunite with Alexa. We were just chatting and catching up and all of the things. Ooh, I have to turn here. But anyway, I'm not gonna lie, like I am really struggling today. I already obviously told Alexa and she is the most understanding supportive friend ever, so she completely gets it, but this timing just couldn't have been worse. You know, Layla's just not doing very good and it's stressful and it's all I can think about and it's just making me really, really sad. And I will inevitably break down at some point today for sure. I didn't sleep because of Layla's stuff that's going on. I'm sure I'll open up about it at some point and then also it's very busy, so kind of stressed, but just wanted to keep it real, show you a real life moment, things that maybe I don't always show on the vlogs, but I do try to keep it light and positive whenever I can. And keeping to my routine and like honestly doing all of this this week, just keeping myself busy like this actually does help. So anyway, okay, now we're headed home. We're gonna pick up Miss Weiwa's and we're gonna go to the vet and then to be continued from there. Alright, it's a little bit later. We just got to our hotel. It's so cute. We're staying in this hotel in Beverly Hills and it's adorable. I love it. Oh, I thought you could see me. I think you kind of can. Here is our view. It's like mostly buildings, but really cute. Like it's so nice. We're on the top floor. Well, there's a rooftop above us, which we're gonna go to. There's a rooftop pool and a bar. So I think we might get a little drinky drink because the front desk gives you like welcome drink tickets when you get here. So we're obviously gonna use that. We're gonna go to dinner at Gracious Madre, which is a vegan place in West Hollywood that's like, oh, it's so good. They have such good drinks, an amazing outdoor patio. Like if you're ever visiting in LA, I would definitely recommend going there even if you're not vegan. It's delicious. I love it. I've been going for years. Alexa and I actually went together probably back in like 2018, but we have been back together since. So we're gonna do that for dinner, Uber over there and then probably go to bed early because that's what we do. So anyway, time to get ready. I think what I'm going to wear, I packed kind of haphazardly. Don't mind my socks. It's fine. But I think I'm gonna wear this Lisa Says Gah skirt that I have been wearing as a top, my little maxi skirt, and then my loafers with my socks. And that is my OOTN. And then here is the bathroom. There's like a little pocket door. So we got a nice little sink area. The lighting is amazing. Amazing marble walls. And then this freaking huge bathtub. I love it. Okay. Now we're gonna get changed, touch up, and then go to dinner. Um, it is so cute up here. What the heck? We're both just, it's just so pretty. Cheers to your birthday. I put ice in my one because I'm white trash. I'm sorry. It just wasn't cold enough. I forgot to show it. And now Alexa stopped, we stopped into era one and she got a gluten-free baby. Can you not get it? She found a gluten-free vegan oatmeal raisin cookie and a gluten-free vegan cinnamon roll. Made it. Made it. I love cinnamon. Does it smell good? It smells good. All right. Let's find out. It is raw. It is good. It's an interesting look. Do you remember when like raw vegan was like vegan? I tried. I had ideas. So that wasn't always good for me. All right. Let's find out. It looks kind of gummy. All right. We just got back to our hotel room and I don't even remember the last thing I showed. We were walking around and we were saying something about like one of Lisa Vanderpump's restaurants and Alexa is like a massive, would you say massive like Vanderpump fan? I mean, I basically just like the last four months and I went from season one to season ten. I've never seen any of it before but I know that it's like really close by to where we were staying. So I was like, wait, should we go to like one of the places? Because I was like, oh, we should have taken a picture. We drove right past like all of her places. And I was like, wait, should we just go? And Alexa was like, yes. So we got back in an Uber, went back over to West Hollywood where we just were for dinner. And went to Tom Tom because it was like the only place that you can go really for like a casual drink. That's not like a dinner reservation type of place. So we went to Tom Tom. I don't know. Listen, don't be mad. I don't know anything. I know there's like some drama, but whatever. We went, we had one drink and while we were there, we're there filming. So there was like a whole crew. I kind of wish I had like, because people just had their phones out. They had the big camera crew. Like I kind of wish I had filmed it, but I was just trying to. I didn't even think, I was just watching like, I was watching so many people lose their shit over these two men. So I'll insert like a couple of pictures that I took outside, which was so funny. They were like, yeah, guys, we're about to do our walk up. So we're going to have to wrap this up. Like it was just so funny. I was trying to get Alexa to take a picture with them, but she was like, I don't want the other Tom in it. I just want the one Tom. So she didn't end up getting a picture. I was too nervous. Yeah, she got a little like, a little star struck, but that's okay. So yeah, now we're back in our room, but that was so funny. That was our little night out. It's currently 8.40. So we're wild. We're wild tonight. We're going to put on our pajamas, watch some TV, and probably go to bed. So we'll see you in the morning. All right, it's the next morning. We got our coffee day. It is a national holiday. It is Leo season. It is Alexa Sunshine 83 day. That is today and we're heading up to the pool. How nice this is. So we're going to do a little pool lounging before we check out. We've chosen. Yeah. Look at how nice this is. It's no Laguna Beach like last year, but it'll still do. Happy birthday. Of course. Let's see how this water is feeling. She said it's not bad. Oh, it feels great. It's actually not that hot up here though. So it's kind of weird. It feels really good and the view is incredible. So we're going to float for the next couple hours until we check out. And then it's time to go to a very exciting. Well, first lunch and then tattoos and we're so excited. I'll just blow them out. So peaceful up here. We just got to lunch at Earth Cafe. I got a little curry chicken salad. Got some bread. Got a chocolate cake. Got a lemonade. Alexa's got an acai bowl and a muffin. Delish.