Pre-Christmas in Los Angeles

The main reason we went to LA was to get our marriage registered renew our Philippine passport in the Consulate there. They don’t accept mail application anymore. You need to be there to get a machine readable passport .Bummer!

I’ve never been to LA so I was excited.

From the airport, we headed straight to the consulate.  It took us more than four hours to get everything done. They were not systematic and everyone was soo slow. Well, what can you expect with Philippine government agencies, ey? Same ol’, same ol’ kahit saan. I was surprise to see ” Lunch Break 12:00 – 1:00 PM” sign. Waa. They even have a lunch break, for petesakes.  No offense ha but you must know, hindi uso ang lunch break dito. Well, we take breaks but we take turns so that the office still accommodate clients during lunchtime.

But anyway, we finished what we came for and have to wait for 6 weeks to get our new passport. We got back to our rental car to find out a ticket in the windshield. A parking ticket for $60!!! Waaa! Apparently, we did not read the bottom part of this sign.

Darn!!! Sixty bucks!! Oh may gaasss!! It kinda ruined our mood. The good thing was our car didn’t get towed which would be a bigger problem pagnagkataon.

The parking ticket incident didn’t ruin my mood to eat though. Haha. We went to Max’s of Manila , one of Max’s restaurant branches in the US, for lunch. It was packed at 2:00 PM.

We ordered Crispy Pata, Sisig and Nilagang Baboy in big serving. Ubos!  I forgot to take photos for I was starving. FYI, JLC and I are members of CPL  – CLEAN PLATE SOCIETY which explains why we ate everything! Haha.  Wala kayang Pinoy restaurant dito so whenever we go to one in other states, we make sure we DIG IN. Haha. Gluttons!

After the over-indulging of food, we went to the Hollywood Walk of Shame Fame. The only reason I wanted to go there was to see the star of my one and only MATT DAMON… Click Click Click!!! Read more