The End of It: March 17

This is the last time I will talk about my birthday for at least another year. So I'll kinda make it count.

On Sunday morning (March 17, no duh) after barely any sleep (I was super anxious that night) I arrived at the Crash Race meet up on Sunset and Fountain at about 3:50 in the morning. It was pretty cold, but not cold enough to keep me from backing out. David's phone was a bit glitchy, so it was kinda hard to meet up with the Bike Collective, but America and I them. It was a bit surreal, I had waited for this moment to participate in the race since last year (a lot like the excite that took over my body when I went to see Iron Maiden. Boy what a show). I found David, only to see that everyone was next to him and then Carlos started of the Happy Birthday song. They're all awesome to the max.

We took some group pictures and then messed around a bit.

 

David used his friend's bike to ride the race and it turned out to be the exact make and color as Abigail, which was pretty funny.

 

It was great having her by my side. She's such a cutie :3 hehe. Well back to the story. The race started at something really close to 4:twenty-something. The race it was tough, exhilarating and some of the most fun I've ever had riding a bike. We started in Silverlake, biked through downtown, to Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Brentwood and then jammed it to Santa Monica. The race took me about 1:40 to complete (our friend Christian finished in 1:05 which is ridiculous) and the site of the Santa Monica beach at 6 in the morning was relieving. I was happy to have completed the race and meet up with all my friends, but I was even more concerned with needing to go to the bathroom haha. America and I drove back home, where I got ready and took a nap before going to Denny's for breakfast with the family. We ate breakfast around 10:30 and all I was excited for was for hash browns haha. When I finished my plate, America kept giving me some of her food hahaha. She did it like a good four or five times. Afterwards I drove Genesis to my dad's house, got to say hi to him, talk for a little bit and head back to LA to meet up with John and the cellar for Korean BBQ. The food was delicious but the service was complete shit. They didn't deserve a tip at all but laws are laws. After that was off to Boba Bear for some smoothies/beverages. (Kim's idea obviously) We played some card games with these ginormous cards and had some great laughs.

Then we went to go pick up some stuff for Amber, but we couldn't, so we ended up just visiting America's family at home. Poor Luci was/is sick but I know she'll recover promptly. After we left to end the day at Plummer Park to go see Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird with special guest Psoy Korilenko perform Klezmer music. It was awesome. The humor, the sound, the vibe. I couldn't have asked for a better way to end such an amazing day.

Thank you to everyone that made it so enjoyable.