We're on our way!

On Wednesday morning we woke up early, got all our stuff together and headed back to LA! aaaand then we turned around because we forgot the laptop and phone chargers, but then we really did head back to LA and went to Sam French and Staples to get everything else we needed to do our mailing!
Man, did we underestimate how long it would take or what?! We were up until 3:30 decorating the envelopes to make them stand out, editing our resumes/cover letters, running back and forth to Staples to print things, and sticking on sooo many labels. Also, on Wednesday night, we got the retouched versions of our headshots to print the next day! Here they are!!

Thursday was another full day of running around to finally get everything ready to send out. We printed the photos in the morning at this place in Van Nuys and the guy was so nice! We were thrilled with how well they turned out and it only took about 20 minutes! We were back at the apartment around 12:30 and taped, drew, wrote, stuck, stamped, and assembled soooo many envelopes! We sat and worked, without stopping except once for food, for 13 hours!! Woah. But we were done!! 

Ahh it felt so good! We got them in the post first thing on Friday morning and were more than ready to have them off our hands. 

YAY! Then it was time to pack up all Lucy's stuff because we were moving out on Saturday! We got a great handle on things and Mum and Q drove out to help us disassemble the furniture and bring more tubs for storage. It was all surprisingly easy and stress-free given our lack of sleep, and once we'd done all we could for the night we went to a Mexican restaurant right next to the apartment. We'd been smelling the most wonderful aromas for months and finally got to try it! It's lucky we didn't go there sooner because we would have had no chance of resisting that delicious food otherwise! Ahh so great and just what we needed after all our hard work!

Yesterday all we had to do was load up the U-Haul and drive it out to Corona! We were all done in no time and it felt amazing to have everything moved and be officially out of Lucy's place. Goodbyeeee K-Town! 

It was great for the semester and to get us on our feet, but we're SO excited to have our own place - now all we need is to find it! We spent a little while chilling in Corona, then we drove back to LA to look at a couple apartment complexes, hang out with some friends, and go see our acting coach's one man show. The first place we looked at we liked a lot buuut it was a little ways out of our price range. That's the only one we'd originally had lined up, but we did a little more scouting on the way and rang a bunch of places. Only one picked up so we decided to go and check it out and - we ABSOLUTELY fell in LOVE with it!! AHH! It was completely above and beyond anything else we'd seen AND it was entirely within our budget! We couldn't contain our excitement and straight away lined up an appointment for this morning to check it out with Mum and Q. 
After that we headed over to see Lucy's girlfriends from LACC, Kiah, Alicia, and Alisa. They're such sweeties and it was so nice for Luce to catch up and for Han to get to know them better. We carpooled with Alicia to see Chambers's show and all really enjoyed it! Well, once we managed to find it! Google maps failed us for the first time and took us to Del Taco, what?! We'd left about half an hour spare just in case and we needed every minute of it! We managed to find the place, park, and get in just in time! The show was really funny and had a few poignant moments thrown in too. After the show we headed over to JT's and went out for a coffee and chai lattes at a really cool little cafe nearby. We watched a movie and crashed on the couch, so excited to meet mum and Q in the morning to look at the apartment again!

Today was Australia Day! Yeee! We met in lovely North Hollywood at 10:30 and had a look through the apartment all together. It was even better today! The place has all the amenities - pool, spa, barbeques, sauna, fitness center, laundry AND the cutest little one bedroom apartment we could have hoped for! Mum and Q gave us a huge stamp of approval - like, we can't quite describe how great of a find this was. The other ones we saw for the same price a couple weeks ago were legitimately frightening. Anyway, it was too great to let someone else snap it up (in fact, there was another guy touring it just after us) so, we signed the lease! We officially have an apartment!! YAAAYYYY!! 

(In the leasing office!)

We picked up meat pies and custard tarts from Bronzed Aussie in honour of Australia Day, headed out to Corona, and are watching the Sean and Catherine's Wedding Bachelor special, so sweet! It's been such a long, busy week, and we are feeling SO accomplished and actually pretty proud of ourselves! We're making it happen baby.