If we"re lucky, our temporary home will be the West Coast :)

Juri and I were wainting for the Job Fair with Hard Rock Cafe. It appeared as the last one (of course) but we signed in and now we´re waiting for January 9th to go to Prague for our american interview.

We chose Hard Rock again because it was the only employee that offers a job at the west coast- in San Francisco, right in Hollywood and in the Universal City. I bet living near (or right in) Hollywood is pricey as fuck (excuse the expression, ete) so we´ve decided for San Francisco. I guess it was the best option except! the shitty weather! (ete)

I´ve spent in SF three days only and it was in September but...it was drinving us crazyyyyy! As we woke up and went downtown it was quite chilly so we took our jackets, when ge got to downtown- it was hot as fuck and then near the ocean it was windy and so a bit chilly again. So we felt a bit like strippers- you know taking off and putting on our clother over again :D

But anyway... San Francisco sounds like a great place to spend almost 4 months, the only thing to do is to be awesome and legendary at the interview in Prague :)

We´ll try our best, just keep your fingers crossed for us (remember... January 9th!)! :)

Registration for the next year!

   As I told you, I was convinced to go to the USA also during summer 2014.
And I haven´t changed my mind so I went to the Student Agency office today and I signed myself into next year for the Work and Travel program. This year, unfortunately, Niki can´t go with me so I thought I´ll go all by myself but then a friend of mine Juri wrote me that he´s been thinking about going to the USA for quite a long time and if I don´t mind, he would like to join me. Of course I don´t mind it, in fact the opposite is true.

   As last year I had to pass the interview in English, but since I already spent 4 months in the USA the interviewer only asked me about my first summer in the US. It lasted like 1,5 minute and it was done.
   I signed some papers, paid 175 dollars and went to the McCafe to enjoy the delicious cinnamon cappuccino ♥ - my reward :)

Juri was in the Student Agency offince one day after me and since his English is even better than mine I have no doubts that he passed with the Advaced English Level as I did.

All we have to do now is wait- the worst part of it all :) We´re thinkin about going to the west coast (possibly Hard Rock Cafe again) or maybe Texas... we´ll see later... now we have to focus on our bloody exams :)

The feeling that...

What I miss the most about being in the US...?

The feeling that I live my other life- Life with no worries, except paying the rent.
The feeling that I am responsible for myself.
The feeling that I can do whatever I please.
The feeling that somebody might miss me back at home.
That feeling that I never really know what´s gonna happen and who am I gonna meet.
The feeling that a person whom I just met, can become overnight one of the closest people.
The feeling of total freedom.

Plans for the summer 2014!

Becasue of the fact that I haven´t been everywhere I wanted and I haven´t seen everything I pleased I decided to make a list for summer 2014 so I won´t miss it the next year again! :)

1. Appartment of Carrie Bradshaw and Empire State Building... and... much more :D

2. Malibu beach

3. Longboard along the beach in California

4. Get a tattoo

5. Spend in San Diego more than 1 day

6. San Francisco- Twin Peaks, Alcatraz

7. Yosemite- Half Dome

8. Surfing

9. Bryce Canyon

10. Arches!

11. Calico Ghost Town

12. Bryce/Zion NP- horseback trip

13. Camping in the BedRock City! :)

Ready for next summer! :)

I must have changed the title of the blog because of one simple reason.
In spite of the fact that Niki and I spent together an AWESOME summer 2013, Niki decided (or better- is being forced) to stay home during the summer 2014! :( It is mainly because of the fact that she is gonna get her Bachelor degree so she has to be fully focused on her studies. :(

But! That doesn´t stop ME! :) I am definatelly going to the USA again next summer, no idea where, no idea when, no idea with whom but definatelly GOING!

So, wish me luck so it will go as smoothly as the last year! :)

Missing the other life

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’

When listening to the songs we used to sing in the car I miss the road SO MUCH!
It was not easy, not always perfectly comfortable either. But it was our way how to ENJOY our lives, how to live FULL... And at that moment I felt the BLISS, the perfect happiness that I was dreaming about so often ♥

BLURRED LINES- Reminds me of our rommie Jameil :)

COME ON EILEEN! Our song with NIKI :)))

WAKE ME UP Road trip song!

CAN´T HOLD US :)))

HOLLYWOOD HILLS- This one especially will never feel the same as it was before the road-trip. Now I understand the lyrics, now I live the story... Bye bye, Hollywood Hills, I'm gonna Miss you wherever I go..
I'm gonna come back to walk these streets again!
Remember that we had fun together ♥

Memories ♥

The best memory that I have from the summer is a video... don´t take it too seriously, it was like 3.30am, we were drunk and very emocionaly damaged because of the good-bye party :D

To see the video follow THIS link ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jAZ70Bmk54

Las Vegas Baby! the FUN part, part 2 :)

I was pretty fucked up at first becasue of the thing that happened with all my stuff (part 1) but I decided to enjoy Las Vegas to the fullest! (I think if this would happen to me before I spent 3,5 months in the USA I would just break down and cry all night, so thank youuu USA for changing my attitude!)

As I wrote earlier- our dear friends from L.A. Pat and Mat (see? :D haha like the fairy-tale) were in Las Vegas at the same time as we did so we decided to spend the last night together! And it was the BEST idea ever :)

As long as I cope with the theft, girl put their dresses and make-up on to get ready for Las Vegas fun! :) And because of the fact that I had nothing but my dress that I was wearing and the flip-flops that I was wearing there were some jokes on me to lighten up the atmosphere like : "Hey Alice, what dress are YOU wearing?"  and "Hey Alice could you lend me your earrings? And what about your lipstick?" We had pretty fun with that! :D

As the girls got ready and I made call to every possible emergency line we went to the hotel where Patrik and Matty waited for us. And it was true what Matty told us before- In Las Vegas everything looks so close, but it really isn´t. That´s true. We saw their hotel from our hotel´s parking lot and we thought it will be 10 minutes tops to get there. It took us at least 40 minutes to get there!!! :D
It was probably the most luxurious hotel I've ever seen! Their room was the best I´ve ever seen. It has this window that was instead of one wall and you could clearly see whole Las Vegas through it, all the pools and lights! It was hilarious!

Since I was not 21 yet (the only one) Matty handed me some booze and an energy drink, I poured it into a red plastic cup and we hit the road to the heart of the city. Their friend Marija took us on the best trip ever! If you know the movie The perks of being a wallflower- it was like the tunnel scene, but in Las Vegas. Just...LEGENDARY :) Perks of being a wallflower

Matty, me, Misa, Bara, Niki, Patrick :) Marija- the driver :) 

We spent an AWESOME night together. We got drunk, we went to a casino, we gambled, we had FUN!
Later at night girls wanted to go to some club but they didn´t let me in because I was not 21 (and even if I was, my Passport was stolen) so Matty was being a perfect gentleman and spent the rest of the night with me wandering the streets of Las Vegas! :))) Patrick took care of Niki, Bara and Michaela :)

We got to bed at about 6am! We slept about 1 hour and then we had to pack our things (well, Niki had to, I had nothing at all :D ) and we went to the nearest police station. We wrote a police report and went rapidly at the airport. Fortunately they let me fly back to DC, where I had an appointment at the Slovak Embassy the next day.

It took about 45 minutes to get the emergency passport. We spend the last day in DC mostly remembering the best moments in out lives.

It was so sad that we had to leave that even tho we had one and half day more in DC we didn´t have the courage to meet out lovely friends again, for the last time. It would be just too sad and painful....
We will miss you forever ♥

Las Vegas Baby! or how I enjoyed the last day of our road-trip with nothing left. part 1

Our last day and last night at the west coast was planned to be legendary! And it was...but in kinda different way than expected!

On our way to Las Vegas we have to go to a Walmart store because of one simple reason. In the beginning of our trip we bought 4 sleeping-bags, one huge tent and two furry hoodies well and now, at the end of the trip, it was useless for us anymore so we decided to be very discontented with it. They bought it and gave us all the money back so we "earned" about 60 dollars each :D - very useful when going to Las Vegas! :)

At first we wanted to check in in the hotel Misa and Bara rented so we parked our car at the parking lot right in front of the hotel. During the time that Misa and Bara were taking care of the keys and stuff I wanted to get my things in my backpack so I took it off the trunk and went to the car for the rest of my stuff.
Now I know it was the stupidest thing E.V.E.R! As I was collecting my things in the car (for like 20 seconds) my backpack was stolen! I had there all my stuff- my clothes, all souvenirs!!! that I bought on the road-trip, cosmetics, everything. And what is most important, even my PASSPORT! (so nothing valuable for those fuckers!)
But fortunately my camera, wallet and cell-phone was in the car so they didn´t steal it. That was my only luck!
At first I went to the security guy to tell him what happened, then I called my dad (it was 3.15am in Slovakia) and then we went to a police station. You know what? There is NO police station open after 5pm in Las Vegas! No kidding! So I have to wait till 9am to go to police station to get a police report! Between that I called to every possible number- all embassies, emergency lines and stuff but nothing was helpful at all. I was reconciled with the fact that I will have to go back to LA to the Slovak Embassy, buy new air tickets to DC and also back to Slovakia- because as I was told by the lady on the emergency line- I had no chance to make it on my flight back home.
I was broken but also not ready to give up! I wrote my friend D. about my situation and because he knows everything he was really helpful. He gave me a number to some guy from LA so I gave him a call and he ensured me that if I have some ID with my photo on it, they let me go on the flight from Las Vegas to DC. Fortunately my wallet wasn´t stolen so I had my driving license and my ISIC (student ID)
In the morning Niki and I went to a police station to write a police report and we got about 2 hours to get to the airport. We made it and they let me fly back to DC! They made some more precautions but because I had almost nothing left it didn´t take that long :)

We got safely back to DC where I had an appointment at the Slovak Embassy early in the morning the other day. Fortunately I got every document needed even extra photo for the Emergency Passport. It lasted only about 45 minutes!

We spent one more day in DC with Niki and were ready to go back home. Well...not quite ready- if it was possible we would stay in California for ever, but it was time to go home.

Mirror, mirror who is the fairest of them all? You are Zion NP, you are!

I guess most of you would expect that the Grand Canyon is the best of the best NP ever. I bet it is the most famous but personally, I preffer the Zion National Park. Maybe it is because of the fact that I really felt like I am a part of the park. Not just a tourist looking at the beauty from "somewhere" as it was in GC. But... I guess I spent too little time in each of them to really judge that :)

In spite of the fact that we couldn´t really see the real beauty of it (because of the bad weather and the change of time comparing to Grand Canyon which we had no idea about!!!!) In spite of all that I still believe that Zion has so much more to offer :) And the next year I am definatelly spend here MUCH more time :)

Or... do u think... ehm...am I MAYBE just affected by the huuuuge tarantula that we met in Grand Canyon? You know...some psychological defense? haha well... judge for yourself :)

The weeping rock :)

Grand Canyon adventure :)

The way to Grand Canyon was the longest way that we drove. It took us nearly 9 hours!!! It would be at least 1,5 hour less if we got the great invention called GPS :)

Misa, Bara and Niki were taking turns with driving and because I am not 21 yet and I can´t drive, I was declared as an enterteiner. It was not that simple as it seems! I had to amuse all of them, I had to overcome their and MINE fatigue and I had to navigate the driver to the right direction (it was more of guessing which way to go than actually knowing :D )

When we were too tired and unable to drive more miles we decided to find the nearest camp site (which was not easy either). Luckily we succeed and laid our heads at arround 3 am.
On the way to the Grand Canyon National Park we found the best camp-site ever! It was called The Bed-rock City and it was exactly what you are thinking. It was a perfect imitation of the BEDROCK CITY from the series The Flinstones! And what is the best for us addicted to coffee- a cup of coffee costs only 5cents!!! Yep, 5 c.e.n.t.s! :D (it´s like 0,03 EUR!)

Unfortunatelly we had no time to spent there at least one night- we had to continue with our adventure :)

We spent in Grand Canyon only one day but I can tell you- It is STUNNING! The nature, the sky...everything... It makes you feel so small and so vulnerable. When we saw it for the first time- we were just staying there on the edge of the Canyon for several minutes- speechless.
We were overcoming our feers and phobia from heights just to take the great pictures! I can hardly describe the beauty of the Grand Canyon!

The only thing that was not as beautiful was the tarantula that crossed our path! (and I bet it was not the only scary creature that lives there) It was huge, it was hairy, it has LOOOOONG legs. You can imagine how we acted when we saw it about 0,5meter from our legs. It is a funny story now but in that moment...well, not so funny :) Too bad nobody was so brave to actually take a photo of it.

We left Grand Canyon with the sunset- it was even more beautiful watching the sun going down and the Grand Canyon fell asleep.
We left absolutely happy, all smiling and singing songs out loud- we had no idea what kind of night is about to come :)

San Diego- short but amazing!

At first we were thinking about staying in LA for 1 more day for two simple reasons: 1. We had no place to stay in San Diego (as always) so it would take us much more time to find some place to stay than actually enjoy the city. In LA we could stay at Matty´s place which would be fun and we would save some time
2. San Diego was actually not on the way to Grand Canyon what was the next destination.

But the destiny wanted it another way :) We got the last minute message from Rob from San Diego that we would be more than welcomed in his house near the beach and the bay in San Diego. We took it as a sign, packed our stuff and hit the road to San Diego.

It took us sooooo long to get to Rob´s house (because of the absence of the GPS) so we get to Rob´s house quite late. We brought some vodka so we drink a little of it and didn´t waiste our time and went out with all the people in his house- Rob is one of the Couchsurfers who is really glad when somebody is crashing on his couch. There was already about 6 people + four of us- but the more people the more fun, right? :) We went to some bar near to Rob´s house but because of the fact that I am not 21 yet I was not allowed to even sit in the! ( I completely agree with the 21 year law about DRINKING alcohol, but this? Crazy!) I felt a bit akward that everybody had to go to some place else. But luckily we did it, because we found some club where there was a concert of some rock band! It was also club 21+ but the guy looked...well not very wise so we gave it a try. I handed him my passport confidently and to my surprise- it worked! :)

We spent awesome night together but after that we had to leave soon in the morning. We had about 5 hours to explore the city and then we had to hit the road to Grand Canyon. It was the longest way we drove- up to 8 hours!!!

Personally, I liked San Diego that much that I was actually thinkin about moving there sometimes :)

Me, Rob, Bara, Michaela and Niki :)

Fun in LA :)

The city of angels was the next destination on our list :) we arrived at 7pm but as typical women we went to an outlet store first :D after 2 hours of shopping, several t-shirts, watches, shoes and scarfs we agreed that it is time to find some place where we could stay next two nights. We checked our couchsurfing accounts and luckily there was a message from a guy named Matty so we gave him a call. (Actually Michaela called him and it went like this: Misa: 'hello? Matt? This is Misa. ...I'm sorry, could you repeat that? ...We're at some outlet. I don't know where. Okay okay okay.

We: 'What did he say? Can we stay at his place?'

Misa: 'I don't know I didn't understand a word, but he'll text me his address and then we'll figure it out somehow' :D 

When we got to his place at first Misa and Bara went ask him if all of us can stay because at first he thought it was just them two staying. After few minutes (it felt like ages outside) they came to us that we have to be super nice and cool and he'll let us stay. So we "played" as hard as we could and it worked out! :) there was two another couchsurfers at his place and two more men in the apartment so it was 9 people - but the more people the more fun. :)

It was amazing! The best couchsurfing so far... We brought some beers (what convinced Matty the best to have us there, haha) Matty cooked a dinner for us (d.e.l.i.c.i.o.u.s.) and we played a really funny game. Unfortunately we didn't dip in their pool and neither the hot tub because we didn't have time for that.  

We spent all day in LA (Hollywood) and we saw all the houses of the famous people that we won't ever be able to afford, we got our 50% discount in Hard Rock Cafe illegally and Niki and I we emotionally connected with George Clooney (inside joke). The next day we spent all day on a beach dipping in Pacific Ocean and playing beach volleyball and in the evening we hit the road again- this time the destination was San Diegoooo! :)

BTW... We are about to meet with Matty and Pat in Las Vegas!
It is gonna be legen... wait for it...dary!!! ♥

I'm just gonna shut myself down emotionally. Like George Clooney! :)

Life is HILARIOUS!!! <3