Girls' Week! xx

Another fun work week with a particularly AMAZING day on set, a couple fab awards shows, and some extra yummy meals out!

On Friday Han had a fun and easy day on Scandal - she even managed to glimpse Kerry Washington! - and Luce had a chill day at home.

We spent pretty much our whole weekend with Sully! We went out to lunch at EAT on Saturday and it was delish, then on Sunday we spent the whole day by the pool and Sully treated us to the best sandwiches EVER for lunch!! Brie cheese, fig and apple jam, bacon, and chicken. Amazing. Han ran out in the afternoon to meet a family she's going to be babysitting for (they were absolutely lovely! Buuut she's gonna have to lock those cats in a bedroom..) then when she got back we ordered Thai food and watched the VMAs! Great show - TSwift is adorable but has way too many limbs to dance with much coordination, Lorde was fantastically non-Hollywood and awkward, Miley actually earned some respect from us by backing the cause of homeless youth in LA, and Queen Bey stole the show with her finale performance!

Neither of us got booked for Monday, so we had a late sleep in, ran some errands, then Han went out on a lovely date! When she got back we went back over to Sully's - still not sick of each other! - to meet her Dad who's in town and watch the Emmys! We thought Seth Meyers actually did a really great job and everyone looked stunning! We were a bit disappointed that GoT, House of Cards, and Orange is the New Black didn't win much of anything - it was still very much the Modern Family and Breaking Bad show, like, c'mon, we get that those shows are great buuut Peter Dinklage and Robin Wright? SO amazing. We were SUPER happy that Sherlock did so well!! 7 Emmys overall and well deserved, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are incredible! Well done on those ones Emmy voters, you can stay. By the time the show was over it was pretty late and we both had really early call times the next morning, so we raced home and straight to bed.

On Tuesday we both had 6:30am call times! Han was on a new show called A to Z and Luce was on Criminal Minds. It was NOT Han's morning - the address was wrong then she couldn't find the right gate at Warner Brothers then security was a nightmare but she was only 4 minutes late when - nooo!! Got a call from Central Casting and toootally sin-binned for being late, oops! Then to top it off the AD was absolutely horrible and another extra said loudly "it's always the blondes that are late" ugh. On the plus side we both had super short days! Luce got wrapped at 9:30! What?! She was home and back in bed for a nap by 10:00! Unreal. Han was wrapped around 1:00, so no complaints there! AND, to make the afternoon even better, we both got booked on New Girl for the next day!! WOOO! SO EXCITING! We hung out all arvo, went to Trader Joe's, and finished watching the last season of Gossip Girl! SUCH a satisfying ending! YAY!

We woke up at 4:30 to leave for set by 5:30! Woah!! It wasn't too bad though cos we were BEYOND excited to be working on New Girl together! We made it to Fox studios no worries and made it to Stage 29 without a hitch! As we walked into the background holding area we walked past the facade set for the outside of the apartment building! So cool! We checked in and went to wardrobe and while we were there WINSTON AND NICK (Lamorne Morris and Jake Johnson) DROVE UP IN THEIR POSH CARS RIGHT WHERE WE WERE STANDING. So cool. It only got cooler though because we realized that our holding area was RIGHT NEXT TO the loft set! We couldn't resist taking a couple sneaky pics of everything!

Soon after, they called us onto set and..... It was the regular bar set that they use almost every episode!!! GAAHH!! So cool. Our excitement was pretty obvious and the AD who was placing people totally looked after us! He put Han right behind the actors so she almost definitely got some screen time and Luce was sitting RIGHT at the bar with the actors!! We were beside ourselves. Schmidt (Max Greenfield) Coach (Damon Wayans Jr.) and Jess (Zooey Deschanel) were all there too and the scene was HILARIOUS! We can't say much about it but we can't wait to see what makes the final cut! It was honestly the coolest thing to watch them work, to see how much improv is involved, and see how genuinely nice the actors were! Only made us love the show even more!

We spent the day with two of our favourite background gals and at lunch the four of us did some exploring around Fox! Luce was stoked to find the bench from modern family:

We weren't on set too much longer after lunch and we were wrapped! Such a wonderful day, we totally lucked out and we were SO glad we got to work on it together!

Yesterday was another lovely day! Sully invited us to go to a fashion show with her and that sounded like far too glamorous of an offer to pass up! We spent the day at the Glendale Galleria, shopping for some accessories for Han to complete her outfit and Luce got a couple things too - we showed amazing restraint though. Also, it's been SO long since we just went to a mall to shop! So strange! We went to Olive Garden for lunch and finally used our gift card from a year ago! Calamari and pastaaaaa so goood! Then we headed home to get ready for the event!

UH OH! Spanner in the works! We got a text from Sully saying that we have to be 21 to get in..! Nooo! She came over anyway to figure something out and get ready. It turned out the girl who invited Sullivan had a fake ID and thought we did too, so the fashion show was a no go... But we'd already started curling our hair, so we weren't giving up on having a glamorous night out! We definitely wanted to go for a bar/lounge type scene rather than a club, and we'd heard about an Aussie one called Vaucluse in Hollywood. We called up to see if we could get in and got a magical "yes" WOO! We were all dressed up with somewhere to go! 

We got to the bar and it was so cool! Totally our scene. Lots of Aussies, great music, yummy food - and we ran into our GoT friend Eddie! So crazy/cool/serendipitous! So we hung out with him, made some new Aussie friends, chatted with the owners, ate sausage rolls and pizza, and got our palms read by a very drunk gypsy! 

The night couldn't have gone better and we will most definitely be going back to Vaucluse!

This morning we all woke up fairly early and Sully invited us out to brekkie with her Mum and Dad, so sweet! On the way there she got a text from her friend who'd invited us to the fashion show saying that security was super tight last night and the girls with fakes didn't get in! Ahh!! We were SO relieved we went with Vaucluse instead, feeling veeerry lucky! For brekkie we went to Aroma Cafe and the two of us split eggs Benedict and possibly some of the best French toast ever - it was made with a croissant for bread - with strawberries, bananas, and maple syrup. Scrumptious! (Running out of "yummy" adjectives so there's a creative one for ya). 

Then we went home and got all our stuff together for a couple days at Mum and Q's! We're on our way out now, should be there in 20 minutes for a fun, relaxing Labor Day weekend!

Workaholics

It's been a big week and a half! Sorry about the prolonged silence - we've been super busy!!

On Tuesday we both worked on Last Man Standing, the sit-com Tim Allen stars in, and had a really fun day. We were playing football fans and we sat RIGHT NEXT TO TIM ALLEN! So. Cool. The day went by pretty quick and we were wrapped! 

On Wednesday we threw it back to the 80's on the Goldbergs!! SO fun to wear 80's get up and get our hair done - rockin the leg warmers and ponytail!

We were on set with a couple awesome people, so the long day flew by!

Thursday we had the day off and we walked to ihop for brunch and used our other free meal vouchers! YUM! Cinnamon swirl brioche French toast and eggs benny, amazing! Besides that we just hung out and cleaned da flat!

On Friday morning we got up bright and early and went over to Chambers' studio bright and early to help him screen test the commercials in his new book! It was a super successful morning and a really great opportunity to practice our commercial acting skills.

After that, Luce headed out to Mum and Q's for a relaxing weekend and Han went over to babysit Jack and Ellie again. 

-- Han --

The kids were heaps of fun and absolutely hilarious. Jack - this is him:

Was extreeeemely inventive when it came to excuses for going to sleep. My favourite by far was: I caaaan't go to sleep because I don't know how to close my eyes. He committed to that too! But eventually all was well, kids were asleep, and the rents came home.

The night was yet young! I got a text from Sully that she and a couple friends were at the Grove for sprinkles cupcakes and a movie - too great of a chance to pass up!

After our cupcakes (mine was raspberry, delish) we headed in to an 11:40 showing of Let's Be Cops. It was actually really funny! Such a lovely, spontaneous night! I didn't get to bed until about 3:00 though, after showering and getting everything ready for work the next (well, same) morning, but I had no regrets! 

On Saturday I was up at  5:30 to make it to set by 6:45. Ahhh sooo earlyyyy!!! I was working a movie the a couple of my friends from Champan were on crew for, though, so that was an added incentive to get outta bed! It was great to see my mates and the scene was fun and super short - and I got a really featured bit!! Success! I did have to make out with a total stranger BUT he was completely gorgeous so it was really a win-win.

I went home after I was wrapped, had a rockin little nap, and then met back up with the gang for dinner at a brewery in Glendale after they'd finished up! It was SUCH a fun group of people, and we kept the party going afterwards at Cooper's place for drinks and a late night swim. Perfect Saturday night!

On Sunday I had a chill morning, made myself a scramble for brekkie, worked on the screenplay I've started writing, and went down to the pool to swim some laps!

Rockin the goggles, I know. While I was down there I found the coolest squirrel in the world:

That night I walked to the taco truck down the street for some seriously good street food! Had two particularly special moments:

1) tried to snap a sneaky pic of the truck, pretending to text, acting all nonchalant aaaaand the flash was on...

2) I evidently need to work on my Spanish. I was order #39, the lady called "treinta y ocho" and I crossed my fingers and went up. Ooops, not my number..! 2 mins later she calls: "thirty niiine" 

My mouth was burning from the world's spiciest salsa (which nevertheless didn't detract from the amazingness of the tacos) so I met up with Sully for froyo down the street, yum! She came over afterwards and we hung out and watched a dodgey movie on Netflicks, love that gal to pieces! 

I fared surprisingly well on my weekend without Luce - great friends are most definitely the next best thing!

On Monday morning I did a little photoshoot thing for the webseries I filmed a little while back which was cool, and then Luce was back!

-- Luce --

I had an absolutely lovely relaxing weekend out with Mum and Q! It was so nice to have a little escape from the hustle and bustle of LA. 

Friday night was movie night with the neighbours and we all had a fab time watching Tangled under the stars! :)

On Saturday Mum, Q, and I went out to brunch at a cute place nearby that they hadn't tried yet and it was amaaaazing! I had a 'California Benedict' which had turkey and avocado on it and ohmygosh it was delish. The rest of the day was spent hanging out, introducing Mum & Q to the awesomeness that is Sherlock, and chilling in the pool. So lovely!

Sunday was another relaxing day of hanging out and going shopping with Mum - gotta love that quality time! I also washed and folded an obscene amount of laundry haha, fun times.. On Monday morning I packed up the Sentra with all the clothes and headed back to LA feeling very refreshed after such a great weekend!

-- Han & Luce --

We did afternoon tea with Sully at a little place called Aroma Cafe, really cute! Ran some errands, Han was full steam ahead on the screenplay, and then we had Mexican again for dinner - amaaahzinggg!!

Tuesday this week Han had a super easy/short day on NCIS and Luce had a looong day on a new MTV Pilot called Scream. We finished the day with blueberry muffins and Gossip Girl, perfection!

Yesterday we were on The Mindy Project, working at Universal Studios. It was yet ANOTHER easy day, what a great streak (well, for Han at least)! We made it to set EXACTLY on time, like zero minutes to spare, and spent the day on the Hollywood backlot pretending we were in NYC!

It was such a fun set to be on and it didn't hurt that it was only about a 6 hour day! Yay!

Today we're on set together again, back on Major Crimes. We had all day to ourselves to hang out and grocery shop because we weren't called until 7:30pm!! We're actually on set right now, in a suuuper fancy house pretending to be at a high school party - wish this is actually what high school parties were like!!! Well, except that there'd be real music/food/drinks going on..! 

We've been told there's not too much to shoot, so with a little luck we'll be wrapped and back home for a good night's sleep!

Tomorrow Han's working on Scandal and Luce has the day off. What jam-packed and super-lucky lives we lead! :)

Starting our 20's with a bang!

... Well, it was loud anyway!!

On Thursday we had a chill post-bday day and then went to a concert in Santa Monica that night! The event was called "Australia Rocks the Pier" and we'd been invited by a couple of the guys we'd met at the Aussies In Film event last week. We met up with them - they were both doing consulate related work, like minding the man in the koala suit haha - then grabbed a bite to eat and a great spot for the concert. There were two openers, Phebe Starr who had a really cool sound and was super fun to watch, and Lord Fascinator who was soooo weird! Definitely a total bogan, in a kinda-lovable-but-he-definitely-didn't-plan-his-act-before-going-on-stage kind of way, he was wearing a huge kaftan and a cap with googley eyes and mesh covering his face - very strange..! 

The main act was Jagwar Ma, a really cool Aussie alternative rock group with an awesome (extremely loud) sound! Not tooootally our cuppa tea but they were really good! And easy on the eyes which never hurts. 

It was a fun night out and we loved supporting our fellow artistic Aussies!

On Friday we were both working. Han was on Bella and the Bulldogs again, where she got to wear this suuuuper attractive top..

And Luce was on a pilot called Growing Up & Down where she got paid more than usual to just sit with 9 other people behind the monitor and laugh - not for the laugh track either, just so the actors would get the timing right for their lines. Haha only in LA..

On Saturday we had our third (we're so lucky!) bday celebration, this one with a great group if friends! We all went to the "Movies in the Park" double feature of Star Trek in Grand Park, Downtown LA. Sully and her friend Luke drove in with us and we scoped out a great spot while we waited for the rest of the gang.

They had a DJ playing music, a Star Trek impersonation competition, food trucks (we had some really yummy coffees and a  supah spicy/delicious noodle dish), and we took an amazing selection of snacks with us. So fun! By the time the movie started there were 14 of us there: us 4, Nick (our GoT friend), Sierra (Han's college roomie), Brit, Brian, and Schwartz, and Mike (our first friend from background) and his sister, Mandy, and their friend Lauren! SUCH a fun crowd! Star Trek: Into Darkness was great - especially with our newfound LOVE for Benedict Cumberbatch - and afterwards we all shared the amazing assortment of desserts that Mike, Mandy, and Lauren brought as a birthday present; so sweet (hehe no pun intended) of them!

It was a perfect night, exactly what we'd hoped for! It's such a hidden gem of an event in LA, we'll definitely be going again!

Yesterday was an action-packed day. Luce went to the beach with her friend Oliver and his mates - she managed to get terrribly burnt, but what's a summer in LA without a little sunburn? And Han had an audition that she spent most of the morning preparing for and 2 HOURS waiting for once she got there..! It went really well though, and we both ended up getting home right around the same time!

We went over to Sully's for dinner - her mum made BBQ ribs and veggies, yum! - and then went to church in the evening. 

The music was amazing, totally on point! Buuut we were hoping it'd be our favourite pastor, Hank, aaaand it wasn't. The sermon was a little intense/preachy but there were still a couple gems of wisdom in there - and it's such a lovely community that even just being there is always lovely!

Today Luce had a bunch if errands to run and Han spent most of the day reading - she finished her 900 page brick of a book, Shantaram, and it was really beautifully written and a great read! Would highly recommend it! Then tonight, Han babysat two adorable kids and spent a couple hours getting jumped on, pretending to be Captain Hook and Thor, going on a treasure hunt, and coming up with ingenious ways to convince 3 and 5 year olds to eat dinner (if you're too full to finish your dinner, you must be too full for dessert), get in the bath (the bathtub's like a pirate ship, right?), get out of the bath (Spider-man PJ's!!), and get into bed (story time!) - with actually pretty amazing success! They were such lovely kids and it was so much fun, looking forward to babysitting them again on Friday!

Tomorrow we're both working on the same set and it's only 10 minutes away, woo!! Then the rest of the week.. who knows? But so far so good!

TWO DECADES BABY!!!

We're officially in our 20's!!!! YAAYY! We had the most WONDERFUL birthday!!! SUCH a perfect day! Here's what we got up to..!

We woke up early(ish) and got ready for a beach day! Before we left we started our the day how any birthday should start.. With presents! Thanks SO MUCH G'ma and G'pa, Uncle Matt, and Sue & Sir for the lovely cards and pressies! AND a huge thank you to Sarah for our beautiful flower delivery!! We really were showered with love from the start of the day to the very end, so special!

We left (a liiiittle behind schedule) to pick up Sully and start the day's adventures! 

We pretty much planned the day based on what free stuff you can do/get on your birthday - and we made out really freakin well!

First up was a free brekkie at IHOP! 

The three of us absolutely went to town! We demolished this WHOLE MEAL in 8 minutes flat. Kind of scary. Kind of impressive.

Number two on our list of freebies were ferry tickets to Catalina Island, a beautiful little island off the coast of LA that we'd never been to before! We got to the port no worries and hopped on board!

(Han was pretty proud of her artistic skills on that 2nd pic!)

The hour-long boat ride sped by and before we knew it, we were there!

It was soooo beautiful! Sort of had the feel of a cross between Sydney and the south of France, it was the most glorious getaway from the city that we could've hoped for! 

We started walking around the little beachy town, exploring and window shopping, and we'd only been at it about 15 minutes when we ran into these three hilarious, good-looking, and veeery drunk guys..!

Their "island names" were Ruffles, Thunder, and Ninja hahaha they were super nice and they gave us their Wicky-Wak hats. After heaps of laughs, we went our separate ways (they were headed to breakfast.. At 12:30pm) with the assurance that it's a small island and we were bound to run into each other again later. 

We were planning on rock climbing or zip lining or parasailing but the beach was so stunning and it was such perfect weather that we couldn't resist the idea of a cocktail on the beach! We were laying out and catching up when a waiter from the beachside cafe came over to us..

Waiter: (looks at the funny hats) "ohh I see you got your Wicky Wacked!"

Han: "Yeah, we did!"

*we all laugh*

Han: "Hey do you have a drinks menu?"

Waiter: "Sure, I'll bring it right over!"

.......

Cool! Thank you boys for those hats! In no time (actually that's a lie, it was at least 45 minutes later) we were sipping on daiquiris and mojitos, yum!! Thanks Sully!

A little while later, our friends bumped into us on the beach! We learned Ninja's signature look, heard the stories behind their nicknames, and were given nicknames ourselves!

From left to right: Ice, Pearly Whites (aka Teeth, aka Jaws, aka Chompers. Nice.), and Sugar & Spice (aka Gucci, aka Sporty Spice. ???). Too funny! 

The time flew by and we didn't have too long before we had to catch the ferry back! We said goodbye to the boys (again) and went off to the ice cream parlour to get our free bday ice cream! Rocky road and Dulce de Leche, soo good! 

Next up we went to Luau Larry's to try their signature drink (no luck this time, the hats failed us.. That and the waitress was a girl so of course she asked for ID. Ahh well.) we still had a delicious fish and chips to split before going to the dock to get back on the boat! 

When we got back to the mainland we went straight to Silverlake, near Downtown LA, to a little place we'd scoped out on Sunday called ALCHEMY TATTOO!!!!

WE GOT INKED!!! The tattoo artist, Wyatt, was super nice/patient with us (he was also gorgeous, ohmygoshh) and worked with us to get it exactly right. Even though it's probably a bit of a shock to all our wonderful family reading this (it was certainly a massive shock to Mum! Hehe sorry..!) we've actually been thinking about this tattoo for about 8 months now - since we were apart from each other in college. We decided on a little "&" on our left wrists in a really pretty aqua/turquoise colour and Wyatt took us back to get em done! We were kind of terrified, SO glad Sully was with us for moral support!!! Luce went first and was done in no time!

Han was up next and 5 minutes later we both had tattoos! 

It was painful but really not unbearable - although we wouldn't have wanted anything bigger - and we couldn't be happier with how they turned out!! We're SO in love with em, such a special way to mark the start of a new decade and declare that, no matter what, we'll always be "Hannah & Lucy"/"Lucy & Hannah" 

We'd planned on going out to a lovely Spanish restaurant for dinner but it was so late and we were all so tired by the time we got home that we decided on pizza delivery instead! 

So we finished the first night of this new, exciting decade with pizza, champagne, choccies, and a chick flick - oh and, of course, each other.