Workaholics: The Sequel

It's been a HUGE couple weeks! We've been so flat out working that we've barely had time for anything else - although we did manage to fit in a little relaxation and treat ourselves to some yummy food. Here's the rundown of the shows we've worked:

Monday 15/9

Han worked on an Amazon show called Bosch and Luce took the day off. That night we got a tip off that Leonardo DiCaprio was going to be at a club out friend promotes for! So exciting!!! We decided to spend a night out on the town in hopes of spotting the gorgeous celeb (and having him fall in love with one of us, obviously..)

We had a fun time but, alas, no Leo! So sad.

Also, Han got some killerrrrr blisters that really just made it a night to remember every time she put on shoes for the next week.

Watch out though, Leo's gonna be fallin in love with one of us soon..

Tuesday 16/9

Han was booked as a Cheerio on Glee! SO EXCITING!! She had an awesome day strutting the halls of William McKinley High School.

(Olivia and Han's attempt at a love heart. Almost...)

Luce worked on a funny new show called Fresh off the Boat and spent the WHOLE DAY OUTSIDE. Rough stuff considering it was over 100 degrees Fahrenheit!

Wednesday 17/9

Han worked on A to Z again for their Halloween episode! The costumers gave her a, uhh, very interesting interpretation of Sherlock Holmes for her costume. 

Yikes! It wasn't the most comfortable outfit but it was pretty hilarious so she tried to make the most of it - and she got a little featured bit in the shot! For better or for worse...

Luce was working on Fresh off the Boat again and it was another hot but fun day on set.

Thursday 18/9

Han was on A to Z again as "sexy Sherlock Holmes" and Luce was back on Fresh off the Boat for her last day.

Friday 19/9

Han had her last day on A to Z and Luce worked a show called Battle Creek with the gorgeous Josh Duhamel! She got an awesome featured bit where she had to "pretend" to check him out haha not much acting required there! The director seemed really impressed and said "thank you" afterwards and Josh (in the scene) said "hi" to Luce! SO cool, he was beyond attractive in real life and it was such a great night on set!

On Saturday morning we went to a 24 hour diner downtown that we've been totally hanging out to try! It hasn't closed since 1924!! THERE AREN'T EVEN LOCKS ON THE DOOR! How cool is that?! We got French toast (to die for) potatoes and sausage, YUM! 

After that Han had an audition downtown for a really cool project! It went really well and she got asked in for a callback but the dates line up badly around Christmas so she had to respectfully decline. It was still totally worth it though and it felt great to be back in the game! 

After the audition we headed out to mum and Q's for the rest of the weekend! 

We had a lovely, Saturday and Sunday - the highlights including working on our tans, brekkie at another adorable diner, playing with the puppies, and a girls' movie afternoon to see This is Where I Leave You. (The movie was okay but Adam Driver was AMAZING! Officially one of our favourite actors!) We ate yummy food cooked to perfection by Q and left on Monday morning feeling rejuvenated.

Monday ended up being another relaxing day, Luce did some errands and Han babysat for another really lovely family! The next day we were back to work!

Tuesday 23/9

Han was on A to Z again, back in normal clothes this time, and Luce was on a medical reenactment show called Sex Sent Me to the ER, hilarious.

Wednesday 24/9

We were booked together on Faking It. We were booked as audience members for a high school beauty pageant but when we got there it turned out that one of the pageant girls was sick so they needed a replacement! We both went back to the wardrobe lady as options and she took one look at Lucy's boobs and said "there's no way we'll be able to squeeze those boobs into the dress". Eeeek! Bit of a bummer for Luce but there was absolutely nothing she could do about it, so Han soldiered on alone. 

After an hour and a half of hair and makeup, Han officially looked like she was from Texas! 

The southern versions of Belle, Cinderella, and Tiana - hilarious!

Luce was feeling a little ordinary, but I think we all know who would've won the pageant if her boobs were smaller...

"She's beauty and she's grace"

It was a fun day nonetheless and we were glad we got booked together!

Thursday 25/9

Luce was on a nickelodeon show called Henry Danger and Han was back on Glee, fun!

Friday 26/9

Booked together again, woo! We had a nice short day with a late call time working on The Fosters.

Finally it was the weekend again! YAAYY! We were so zonked out that we pretty much just slept, binge watched So You Think You Can Dance, and hung out with Sully. Exactly what we needed!

On Monday we were back at it! We spent the whole morning cleaning then Han had an audition in the afternoon (which went really well! YAY!) and babysat the same little boy, Hudson, from last week. Sully came over again that night and we hung out and played cards, love her to pieces!

Yesterday we were back at work on The Fosters. It was a really early call time in San Pedro, nearly an hour away!! Suuuch a struggle! We set alarms for 4:30, 4:45, and Luce set a backup alarm for 5:15 as a ten minute warning for when we had to leave. The first thing either of us recall is Luce waking up to her 5:15 alarm! OH NO! We flew outta bed and, by some miracle, managed to get ready in 15 minutes!! WOW! We made it to the address with time to spare, parked in the wrong place - literally the edge of the US, we couldn't have gone any further to the southwest - and walked a while before finally finding base camp and checking in! Go us! It was a gloriously short day and we were wrapped at 11:30!! Yeee! 

We stopped for boba and were home and back in bed before 1:00. Success.

Post-nap we took it easy and Luce cooked up a storm for dinner, delicious fried rice! 

Today we both took the day off to surprise Grandma and Grandpa at the airport when they arrived this morning! SO amazing to have them here, we can't wait to spend some quality time with them!! We stopped at Dunkin Donuts in Santa Monica on our way back to NoHo for a yummy lunch with Sully! We're doing burgers on the grill and she's making her grandma's rice pudding, can't wait! Han's babysitting again tonight and we both got booked on Faking It again tomorrow! What a crazy/awesome/fun/exciting few weeks!!

Feeling Nocturnal..!

We hardly saw each other Thursday afternoon/evening and Friday because of the way our schedules matched up! We had a lovely weekend though, and we've been back at work the last couple days.

-- Han --
On Thursday afternoon and all day Friday I was working on a new Nickelodeon show called Bella and the Bulldogs. It was a SUPER cute show and, to make the two days even better, all my friends from the Thundermans were there! We spent hours cheering on the fake football teams (Go get em Tigers!), chatting and laughing with each other, and taking some sneaky selfies and pics!

Looking out from the bleachers we had a great view of the LA skyline, palm trees, and the Hollywood sign - pretty cool! The highlights of each day had to be lunch though. Normally sets cater lunch but Nick tends to do "walkaway" lunches which means you fend for yourself - and did we ever! The first day we went to Chipotle for some delicious burrito bowls, and the second day we went to a really cool frozen yogurt place, fun!

It was a good couple days but exhausting! We finished well after midnight both days and on the second day they had us out in the 100+ degree heat for over 5 hours without a break!! AND it was autumn in the show so I was wearing a flannel! Pretty intense. Buuut Chipotle, froyo, and a couple paychecks make everything better. :)

-- Luce --

I had two all-night calls in a row for a movie called "The Midnight Man" on Thursday and Friday! It was actually so much more fun than I was expecting and it paid much better than usual because I was wearing a bikini! Woo! On Thursday I got to set at 7pm, ready to play a "passed out girl on the couch" because the scene was a bunch of girls at a rich sleazy guy's house..! After sitting around for 5 hours without doing much of anything (apart from talking to almost everyone in the cast and crew haha) 4 other girls showed up and they were ready to start shooting all the party scenes! We were about to shoot when two of the girls turned out to be working illegally and had to be sent home! OMG! One was Russian and the other was Brazilian and neither of them had a US passport or work visa.. Crazy. That left me and two other girls to do our best to make it look like there was a raging party going on..! And a couple members of the crew had to step in as well (and replace me as the asleep couch-girl so I could do the more risqué things haha).. We filmed a bunch of shots partying and dancing and hanging out in a hot tub throughout the night and I really felt like I bonded with the other girls! All in all it was a super fun experience and I was excited to go back and do it again the next day!

After spending all of the daytime on Friday recuperating, I headed out to set again and braced myself for the night ahead! When I got there everyone remembered my name which was lovely and I hung out with my new friend Jenna from the night before as we waited to start filming! 

There were more girls compared to the night before (thank goodness!) because it was the huge climactic moment in the movie and it was so exciting! Jenna and I were chosen to be two of the sleazy guy's main girls so we were really featured and got to spend a lot of time with the lead actors which made the time fly by! Eventually around 3:30am Jenna and I had a break so we curled up in the bed in the mansion we were filming in and had a little nap! Pretty hilarious. After more filming all the way through to sunrise, we were finally wrapped at 6:30 in the morning - 12 hours after we arrived. So. Insane. I was exhausted but happy to have had such a great time on set! I drove home and didn't even have to turn the headlights on in the car because it was daylight (so weird!) and I fell into bed. :)

-- Han & Luce --
We spent the weekend recovering from the last couple days, resetting our sleep cycles, and doing heaps of work on our YouTube channel - we're pretty excited about it! On Saturday we did a test run of the filming/editing, Luce was a natural and Han's becoming an iMovie wiz, then ordered Chinese takeout and had a GG marathon. Perfect Saturday. On Sunday we filmed the main chunk of our first episode! Woo!! We had to go out before filming to run some related errands, so it ended up being an all-day endeavor. It was worth the effort though! We're really pleased with the results and we can't wait to share it with you all! We're still a couple weeks off the big reveal, so stay tuned..! Afterwards, we cooked up a storm for dinner then called it a night.

Yesterday Han was working on CSI and Luce had a chill day at home.

-- Han --
It was a long day but the time flew by! The scene was a really exciting one - involving a screaming man running down a corridor of students - and the background reactions were really important, so it was a fun day! I made some friends, got some screen time, climbed about a thousand stairs, and ate an amazing lunch! Success!

-- Luce --
I had a relatively chill day at home watching movies and went out to run some errands in the afternoon! It was nice to be able to fully recover from my earlier two nights of no sleep and be completely ready to face the work week ahead!

-- Han & Luce --
Han got home around 7:00 and we had time for dinner and a catch-up before the season finale of the Bachelorette! Ahh it was unbelievably satisfying and exactly the romance/drama/love fix we needed. Amazing.

Today Luce is on set for Transparent, the show Han worked a couple weeks ago, and Han's working her way through a veeerry long to-do list. 7) Post the blog: check!

Back in touch with nature.. (and reality)

We were back in the US! It was certainly bittersweet - we were feeling motivated and ready to be back and make stuff happen but, at the same time, we would've gone back to Europe in a heartbeat. We took a couple days to recover from the trip (and do piles and piles of laundry) then headed back to the apartment from Mum and Q's. We stopped at Chapman on the way to see a few of Han's friends in the show Machinal and they did SUCH a great job!! Afterwards we grabbed boba with JT and Tosh (who Luce finally got to meet!) and then called it a night. We were finally home! It felt amazing to be back in our lovely apartment :)

On Monday we woke up early and decided to go to the park for a walk and to start writing something to turn into a web series or play. We were still on a high from the holiday, so it really didn't faze us that we had a maaajor struggle finding/getting to/parking at Griffith Park haha. But we got there in the end! We made progress writing, called and emailed a few people, and enjoyed the sunshine.

On Tuesday we went and updated our photos at Central Casting to refresh ourselves in their system. The process took waaayyy longer than expected BUT, on the plus side, we ran into Nick Lee who Han had become friends with on Revenge! It was great catching up with him and it turns out he and his roommate are huge Game of Thrones fans, so we lined up a GoT watching party for the next episode.

That night was the lunar eclipse which was kind of exciting. We went over to see JT's new apartment then went together to a great spot on Mulholland Drive to watch it from.

We had a really great chat, filled him in on all our shenanigans from Austria, and heard what he's been up to here. The eclipse itself was beautiful and it's always lovely hanging out with JT.

On Wednesday Han signed back up with Extras Management and went for a hike/read her book at Wilacre Park and Luce did background on the set of Pretty Little Liars!! We both had great, productive days AND we came home to a really sweet thank you present from Izzy for having her over spring break!

Slightly embarrassingly, all we have to say about yesterday is: Orange is the New Black is SUCH A GOOD SHOW! Also, strawberry, banana, spinach smoothies are delicious!

Today we went for a long hike together at Wilacre park. We were a little bummed not to get booked by Extras the last couple days, but with Easter things are really slow, so we figured we'd make the most of it! The walk was lovely absolutely lovely and we're feeling all inspired to get out and exercise whenever we're not working!

(Luce was feeling particularly in touch with nature haha)

We're going to Mosaic tonight for the Good Friday service, then Han has a date with a really nice guy she met on Wednesday - they're going to a UCB improv comedy show and coffee afterwards, exciting! Luce is going to a party that a friend from her CSI background gig is hosting and Han might join later, so it looks like it's going to be a great night! Yay!

Das Ischt Good Times!

We were sobered up by the next morning, that's for sure - so sad to say our goodbyes! We'd only known the guys for a few days but already felt like good mates, and who knows when we'll next see Ehren, Nadine, Brendan, and Sharon! :( It was a wonderful few days and we weren't ready for it to be over. But over it was - and we were on to more lovely times and fun adventures in Munich!

We drove to our hotel in Munich and completely crashed out for a nap (which was merely an extension of the nap that lasted the entire car ride) and only woke up about half an hour before our dinner reservation at Haxnbauer. We had pigs knuckles, potato pancakes, mushrooms in cream sauce, aaaand the best crackling EVER! Yum! Then it was back to the hotel for a good night's sleep.

The next morning Q had to head back to the US (such a bummer!) so it was just us gals left to explore the city! We had a massive sleep in, but made up for lost time with a great arvo walking all over the city. We started at the Glockenspiel - the first ever clock with the figurine thingos that spin around - and had crepes while we waited for the hour to tick over.

We made sure to get a pic doing the blockenspiel in front of the Glockenspiel as requested by Russ (who coined the term "blockenspiel" to be awarded to particularly epic blocks of any kind).

The hour turned over aaaand... Fizzah! Nothing happened! We learned later that it only goes at 11, 12, and 5, so we ended up seeing it in action on our last day, very cool!

We spent time in the main square, Marienplatz, had lunch in the slightly creepy but also amazing restaurant below the Glockenspiel, found a few places to go back to that weren't open on Sunday, walked around a magnificent church, and went up in the bell tower for a spectacular view of the city!

We had dinner in the oldest beer house in the city - Han tried the beer despite still feeling slightly queasy after Austria, so worth it! Delish! - and then headed back for an early night's sleep. 

We'd all come down with the flu, as had many of the other wedding guests, so we were trying to go easy on ourselves! 

The next day we went on a tour of two absolutely stunning castles about an hour outside of Munich, Linderhof and Neuschwanstein, with a stop in between at a lovely little town called Oberammergau.

(The original swan lake!)

(Mum and Luce in Oberammergau)

Both castles were incredible but WOW! Neuschwanstein was truly spectacular! The king who built them, Ludwig II, was a totally extravagant recluse who desperately wished he was living in medieval times and had a strange obsession with Louis XIV. The castle had a very Harry Potter feel and was gorgeous inside, both were, but we weren't allowed to take photos! Pics of the outside - and us looking exhausted - will have to suffice!

We slept the whole way home (we really were wrecked from the jam packed days in Austria) and fell into bed after a quick dinner at the hotel. 

The next day was a rainy day, so we had a later start then rugged up and headed back to Marienplatz for some shopping! Luce found overalls and a pair of jeans she's been wanting for ages and Han got her dream khaki jacket (worn the next day, see pics below) that she's been pining after for 2 years, success!

The real triumph, though, was trying on dirndls and lederhosen!!!

(Hehe "No Fotos".. As if!)

No pics of the lederhosen (which we squeezed into about two sizes too small) seemed quite fit to be shared on the blog.. We, uhh, described ourselves as looking like "hookers that no one would pay much for" hahaha SO not a good look! But funny nonetheless - and we are definitely coming back for Oktoberfest one year and buying those dirndls!!

We saw the clock go, carboloaded on yummy pastas and Wiener schnitzel, revisited the outdoor markets, the Viktualienmarkt, that had been closed on Sunday, and grabbed some strawberries and sweets to take back to the hotel with us! What a lovely day!

On our last day we did another tour, this one of Harburg Castle and the Romantic Road! We (lucky for us!) had the same tour guide as last time!! She was so lovely, describing everything as "a dream" or "a paradise" - she totally made the tour! The castle had a very different feel from the others as it's purpose was to be a fortress as well as a palace. We (dorky though it is) were extremely excited because it was exactly what we'd imagined the setting in one of our favourite books to look like! It was like we'd stepped right into that world and we absolutely loved it!

The Romantic Road was beautiful too, a historic road that lead us to the beautiful medieval-style city of Rothenburg.

We had a few hours to explore (and eat) our way around the town, and we did just that!

It was unlike anywhere we'd ever been and we had heaps of fun walking the streets, taking in the view, and eating the pastries!

We hopped back on the bus for the trip back to Munich, drove past the Allianz Arena which was pretty cool, grabbed a quick dinner of fish and chips, then went back to the hotel for our last night in Germany.

We were up early the next morning and at the airport by 9:00 (thanks to a very keen cab driver who took us through all these back streets to make it there in record time) and we made it through security without a hitch - although Luce seemed to be public enemy #1 and got pulled aside frisked at all the checkpoints because of the buttons on her overalls haha. We did one last glorious shot of jäger before hopping on the plane.

(Lucy's new overalls!)                                      

Goodbye Europe!! Thanks for having us! We had a fantastic time and we hope we'll be back soon!!!