HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

It's 2015!!!!!!! Wahoooo!! We had an absolutely wonderful New Year's Eve - we climbed mount Kosciuszko with the fam, went to a lovely bbq for dinner, and danced the night away with Claire, 3 glasses and a bottle of Mumm champagne! 

(Our ears were freezing..!)

(Top of the mountain!! Highest point in Australia! So proud of Eddie and Will - and us - for walking 14kms up and back down this incredible peak!)

(Will and Han on the bobsled)

(Oh, and we introduced Claire to Jagerbombs..!)

Happy New Year to you beautiful friends and family - and anyone else! - reading our blog! We've so enjoyed sharing our adventures in LA with all of you, it was one crazy, intense, wonderful ride! Now that we're starting a new year in a new place, we've decided to continue living life to the fullest but to stop writing it down for a little while. This will be our last post - wow! - but tuned for a Travel Edition of the blog, coming in April!! May this year bring us all happiness, love, excitement, and tons of fun! We couldn't feel more positive and excited about this new direction our lives are taking and wish the same and more for everyone else! 

Lots of love,

Hannah and Lucy xoxo

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!

Creeks, Culture, and Craziness!

We spent the last awesome few days in mermaid lagoons and restaurants, a gallery and a club, and the company of amazing friends! 

Friday was yet another non-working day BUT we totally made the most of it! We went with Brittany to Malibu Creek State Park to go on one of her favourite hikes that ended in a beautiful, mermaidy lagoon! 

We spent ages exploring, watching people jump from different heights on the cliff face, trying to avoid submerged rocks, and paddling around. We'd worked up an appetite so we went out to Lemonade for lunch afterwards! We'd been wanting to try it for ages and it totally lived up to our expectations, so yummy!! 

We spent the rest of the afternoon hanging out by the pool, so lovely to get a full day of fresh air and sunshine!

Saturday was a super fun day! We ran errands and did the grocery shopping in the morning and then Sierra, Han's college roomie/bestie came to visit for the first time!! Yeee! We chatted and caught up for a few hours then we went with Schwartz and Brittany to an opening at the gallery Brian works at in Santa Monica. They were showcasing three really lovely artists, we were super impressed!

Right nearby was another restaurant we've been wanting to try, Wurstkuche, so we went there for dinner! We had the most delicious sausages (although Han's was so spicy she almost didn't make it through) and amazing fries in this cool, hipster bar area.

Next on the agenda was Sierra's first ever clubbing experience!! We went to Lure, the same place we went with Sully, and had a fantastic night full of dancing and silliness! 

We also almost deafened ourselves, it's Monday and our ears are still recovering! The big drama of the night came later on when we got a Lyft (a super affordable taxi service) home. We reached the apartment and the driver told us she'd forgotten to start the timer thingo when we'd left! Han's credit card info was already entered into the app on her phone, so the driver just said she'd start the route and drive back to the club so it was exactly the same time. Well, 15 minutes later (the right amount of time for the ride) Han's credit card got charged for the Lyft....... $90!!!!! WHAT?! Ninety bucks for a 15 minute drive?!! Apparently there was a 200% tip added..?! Ughh so we called the driver and she was super nice about it, promising to help us sort it out, but we're still waiting to hear back from customer service. It was a wonderful night nonetheless, and fingers crossed we'll get a refund too!

Yesterday was a bit of a recovery day. We took Sierra to Cactus, still our #1 Mexican spot, and hung out for a while until she had to leave. It was so, so great hanging out with her! Just like old times!! The afternoon was a quiet one and in the evening Luce went out on a lovely date - and brought Han back some delicious Indian food afterwards! #twinning

-- Han & Luce --

Today Han's doing background on a new show called Transparent (where she saw this sign, kinda cool..!)

and Luce is going to the doctor and dermatologist. Han's hoping for a short day and planning on stopping by the most amaaazing donut place nearby the shooting location - where you can get a "wownut" (a waffle + a donut) - we've been craving it SO badly and can't wait to try it! 

Ahhh, very exciting!! Fingers crossed it'll be a wrap soon!

Too Busy to Blog!!

This week has been INSANE! We've been SO busy, the time since the last blog had absolutely flown by!! We've found the most awesome balance between work and play - although truly, work is play as well, we're so lucky!

On Monday Luce had rehearsal for GGGG (which went really well! Yay!) and Han went to the Samuel French bookstore to read some plays. Afterwards we went to a little Mexican place for the most amaaazingg fish and shrimp tacos - another Bri and Brit recommendation, they're the best - then headed over to Sullivan's place for an epic marathon of the Bachelorette!! 3 episodes, 5 hours, 4 Sprinkles cupcakes, and 1 mammoth bowl of popcorn later, we were all caught up and decided to call it a night. Such a lovely evening! We couldn't believe it's taken this long to realize that Sully watches the Bachelor too! Definitely becoming a regular thing.

On Tuesday we went out for brekky at Crave with our Aussie friend Natalie, who we met at our Beauty and the Geek callback, and a couple of her other friends. It was so lovely to see her again before she leaves for the next year! Hopefully we'll all catch up again when she comes back! 

Han had rehearsal for the show at 1:30 (another successful one, woo) and then we both had rehearsal at 7:00 to rehearse, wait for it........ The Penguin Dance!!! Ha! A remixed version got added into the show and we were pretty stoked about it!!

On Wednesday we both got booked on the same background job on a new show called Recovery Road which was great! The downside: 6:30am call time! Eeeeek! We left the house at 5:45 and made it to set juuuust in time! It ended up being a really chill day and we were there so long that we made it into double overtime, yeah babyyy!

Thursday was actually a pretty exciting day! We each had cool stuff going on during the day and then we reconvened for chia seed pudding and a double-feature movie night in!

-- Luce --

In the morning I had an audition for a play that's going to be in a theatre festival coming up! It was a really low-key and friendly audition atmosphere and I think it went quite well! I had a fun time and even chatted with the director afterwards about my life and my family, etc. so lovely! After that I went home and hung out and had a very chill rest of my day!

-- Han --

On Thursday I was booked for my first commercial ever! Yay! I had to be on set at 6:30am in Long Beach which is about an hour away, so it was a veeeerrry early morning! I got there no worries and headed in to hair and makeup which was super fun and made me feel pretty spesh!

Next up was wardrobe - which was a teeny tiny, white American Apparel swimsuit! I was a mix of excited and terrified by that, but decided to embrace the intense, 80's cut and do my best to rock it haha.

There were about 20 girls in the commercial and they were all such sweethearts! The commercial itself was a sort of Bay Watch meets Chariots of Fire thing, which meant we spent the whole day running (seriously running, not jogging, like, sprinting. Wow!) on the beach!! It was so, so fun and a great workout too! 

While we were still on break for lunch, a couple of the gals and I went and did a little photo shoot in the beach. We got some really cute pics too!

We were wrapped soon after lunch and I was exhausted! The promise of Lucy's chia seed pudding was about all that got me home! It was definitely one of those awesome "this is my job?!" days, I felt very, very lucky - and I got to keep the swimsuit! 

On Friday morning we had check up appointments at the doctor's, which went off without a hitch untiiiiil Han had to get blood drawn...

-- Han -- 

I went down to the lab and the nurse had me sit down. She fussed around for a minute then stuck the needle in while I sang a song in my head to try to distract myself. On the fourth little vial of blood I was feeling pretty over it - I'm not afraid of getting blood drawn, I just find it suuuuper uncomfortable. Anyway, just as I was starting to feel a little light headed, she pulled out the needle and was done! I rested my head back against the chair and -- next thing I know my eyes are shut, I feel like I can't move my body at all, and I have no idea where I am! I open my eyes, still having zero motor control over my body, and absolutely freak out. In what I can only describe as sheer panic, I started hysterically sobbing and gasping for breath - super embarrassing. The nurse calls over the loudspeaker "emergency personnel to the lab! Emergency personnel to the lab" and 10 or 12 people come rushing in to see me completely outta control. So. Embarrassing. Ha! I'd started to pull myself together and regain control of my arms and legs when they asked if I wanted them to get Lucy. Luce strolls in, no rush whatsoever, and says with the worst bedside manner you can imagine "are you crying?" I sniffled out a "yeah" and laughed, no chance I'll ever become a diva with Luce around! Hahah I pulled myself together and was allowed to go soon thereafter, but I was pretty shaken up! I've seriously never been more disoriented or confused in my life, very unexpected for a Friday morning in NoHo!

-- Han & Luce --

Han's fainting episode meant we were a little late to rehearsal, oops, but when we got there the whole cast of GGGG was finally back together! Woo!! It was our last run through of the show before the first performance on Saturday (yesterday!) and it was so fun to see all the changes in people's scenes and catch up with the gang.

After rehearsal we went to the Grove with Sullivan for dinner (Indian food, yum!) and a movie. We saw The Fault in Our Stars and it was sooo beautifully done! We laughed, we cried - although not as much as the row of hysterically sobbing, attention-seeking middle school girls in the row in front of us! Wow! Haha the movie was so wonderful though that it barely even distracted us; it was such a satisfying adaptation of the book and honestly just perfect in every way. We went for Sprinkles round 2 this week, incredible as always, then called it a night early in preparation for the HUGE Saturday we had planned!

On Saturday morning Luce was up bright and early for an audition at 8:00!

-- Luce --

Wowww Saturday was a huge day for me! I had an audition at 8 for a short film so I was up nice and early so I could make it on time! The audition was really quick and I was done by 8:15!! I stopped by Ralphs on the way home and bought some berries to make delicious smoothies for brekkie and then Han and I hung out for a bit and headed out to the show!! Woo!

-- Han & Luce --

Next on the agenda was Greasy Grimey Gopher Guts! We got to the theatre at 11:00 for a couple last minute brush ups before the performance at 12:00! The show went really well! No stuff ups at all - including in the penguin dance which, with our modifications, was actually quite challenging! Mum came with her friend Robin (who helped us move in to our apartment in Feb!) and Robin's daughter Melissa who's our age, so sweet of them to come! We went out to lunch nearby afterwards and had some seriously yummy Greek food!

Luce had to run off to another audition at 2:00 and Han was catering for an event for Bronzed Aussie at the Australian Consul-General's house in Brentwood, la dee!!

-- Luce --

My audition was for a part in a student film and after having an incredibly difficult time finding a place to park, I made it there and auditioned! The guy that was casting it was so friendly and made it a funny and memorable experience! After the audition was over, I headed home and had a glorious nap! I was completely out of it - so exhausted!! I woke up just in time to leave and pick Han up from her catering job!

-- Han --

The Consul-General's house was SO beautiful and, even though I was late, I ended up being the first one to arrive! It was a pretty low stress job - setting up tables, putting out glasses, stocking the ice buckets with drinks, taking food around on trays. Samantha from Bronzed Aussie was there for a little while too and her friend Laura who I'd met before was my partner in crime for the whole event and she's such a sweetheart! It was a short event, just from 3:30-7:00, so it was over before I knew it! I had a lovely chat with Karen, the Consul General, got tipped in Aussie money because they didn't have anything else, grabbed a couple leftover pies, and headed out to the car where Luce was waiting for me. Success!

-- Han & Luce --

We had a couple hours at home before Sullivan came over to get ready for a big night out in LA!! Woo! We had SO much fun!!! We met Chad at Lure in Hollywood, skipped the line (so cool!), and went inside..

It's SUCH a cool club! He had a table so we chatted and met some lovely people before heading out onto the dance floor! 

We danced the night away and headed to an after party in the Hollywood hills with Chad and his friends!

The house was beautiful and everyone there seemed great but we didn't stay long and decided to call it a night. We got an Uber home, with a stop by a 7/11 for Ben & Jerry's and a cookie, and after sitting on the floor making a mess and eating ice cream, we all fell into bed. What a wonderful first night out as a great little trio!! It couldn't have gone better!

Today the three of us woke up late and made a glorious run to our new local Mexican place, Cactus, for breakfast burritos and Mexican coffee - yum! We spent the rest of the day watching the 2nd season of Orange is the New Black (so addictive) until Sully had to go. 

We ran a couple errands and before we new it, it was GoT night time!! We had amazing turkey burgers, caught up on each other's lives since last time, and watched a satisfyingly epic episode of Game of Thrones! Only one week left, SO crazy!! We spent a surprisingly long time afterwards playing a charades-like game on Eddie's iPhone. The absolute highlight was the Facial Expressions deck, including "constipated" and "silly" to which Lucy guessed mentally retarded after Mike's non-verbal clue, hahaha never a dull moment at GoT night!!

It's been such a action-packed week in the most amazing way, we're totally high on life right now and looking forward to more adventures over the next few days!

Who Needs Sleep??

It's been an amazing few days for us with a lot of reeeally late nights..!

On Wednesday Luce had another audition! Woo! We also went out and bought everything we needed for our costumes for Disney on Friday! So exciting!!

-- Luce --

My audition was for a World Cup themed Corona commercial and it was so fun! I went on a quick shopping spree with Han beforehand because I needed "sexy shorts" for the audition and I didn't think any of the shorts Han and I had were sexy enough..! Haha.. So we went out and found some appropriately sexy shorts (and they were on sale!!) in addition to finding all of the costume items we needed!

My audition was at 3:45 so I got all dressed up and arrived with plenty of time to spare.. It was lucky I was there early because there was a line out the door of soooo many girls dressed in various different skimpy outfits! Ha! I was auditionee number 124 and they were only up to around number 90 when I arrived so I had a little while to wait.. After about an hour, four other girls and I went into a little room in front of the casting directors! We had to then say our name, the name of our agency, and then slowly turn in a circle so they could see every side of us.. Embarrassingly for me, I didn't know about the whole turning in a circle thing and because I was the first girl to go there was this awkward pause and one of the other girls had to tell me to turn! Ahh so embarrassing! But I laughed it off so I think it's fine haha... After that we all had to pick up a Corona and sell it to the man on the audition panel! I had fun with it and was as charming and cute as I could possibly be, so in the end I felt great about my audition! I then walked back to the car (with beeps and catcalls galore from passers by) and then went home to see Han! Yayyy!

-- Han & Luce --

In the morning, we ran all over North Hollywood finding singlets, soffe shorts, long socks, name tags, fabric, and a hot glue gun to put together the masterpieces that were our Disney costumes! It was really fun and we had better luck finding everything than we'd expected, we couldn't wait to wear em!

Next on the agenda (after Lucy's audition) was getting ready for a suuper fun and fancy night out with our new promoter friend Chad and his friends! We went to Fig & Olive in Hollywood for dinner and Oh. My. God. It was amazing! SO yummy, they just brought out plate after plate of incredible food! We had: 

1) Zucchini carpaccio

2) Crostinis. A cheese, fig paste, and almond one, a shrimp, guac, and grapes one, a ricotta, pesto, balsamic one, and one with roast beef and horseradish

3) Cheese truffle mushroom fried ball things

4) Salmon with mashed potatoes and asparagus

5) Pasta with mushrooms, garlic, and olive oil 

6) Couscous

7) Strawberry shortcake

8) Chocolate mousse

9) Strawberry gelato

10) Caramel/honeycomb nougat bites of heaven

We lived the lives of rich people for FREE on a WEDNESDAY?!! Unreal.

After dinner we went over to an awesome new club that Chad promotes, skipped the line, and headed inside! The music was awesome and it had a really cool vibe inside. It was kind of circusy with a jester guy running around and the waitresses all in costume, we loved it! We danced and hung out for a couple hours, taking it all in!

Given that it was a Wednesday, though, we faded kinda early and decided to call it a night around 12:30. It was SUCH a different experience to our first time clubbing in LA and, honestly, even more fun!

On Thursday we slept in, took it easy, organized everything we needed to take to Mum and Q's, and Luce finished making our AMAZING additional costume pieces! The reason we had such a cruisey day was...... We'd both been booked on the same ALL NIGHT call AGAIN! Ohhhmygoshh we were not so excited about pulling a second all nighter! It actually ended up being a really fun night though. We were filming a bonfire scene, so it was a pretty big call with some really fun people - lots of familiar faces in the 18-to-look-younger background circuit. We ate an amazing chorizo breakfast burrito, made it into the shot heaps of times, listened to some shockingly bad guitar playing/rapping at holding, froze our butts off, and laughed a lot. We wrapped around 5:30am (almost 12 hours after our call time!) and drove straight out to Mum and Q's for the weekend. Luce, like an absolute champ, got us there safely and we both stumbled into bed for a few hours sleep before the Disney 24-hour party!

Feeling rejuvenated after food and coffee, we got into our adorable costumes (Toy Story themed: Hamm, Rex, and Mr. & Mrs. Potatohead) and the fam bam headed to Disneyland, woo!!! 

We had a FANTASTIC time! Our costumes were a huge hit, we tried some delicious Maleficent cake-pops and the best hot dogs EVER, ran into the most amazing Kevin and Mr. Frederickson from Up, killed it on Toy Story Midway Mania, watched Aladdin, did Luigi's Tires and Tower of Terror, and most definitely rocked our Disney side!!

The quote of the day came when the ride loading guy in Cars Land said "A dragon next to a cat, that seems dangerous!" What?! I mean yes Hamm and Rex are slightly obscure costumes except for the fact that 1) we're in Disneyland, 2) we're walking around with Mr. & Mrs. Potatohead, and 3) we're wearing NAMETAGS..!

Haha too funny! We watched World of Colour at night and it was as magical as ever - made even more magical by the Ghirardelli hot chocolates we were drinking! Then we went over to Disneyland to finish the night on Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters and Star Tours (we also bumped into Han's old roommate and bestie Sierra!! Yeee! SO lovely to see her and catch up!!) 

We made it to midnight and called it a night, all very impressed and satisfied with such a great effort on so little sleep! It was a wonderful afternoon of disney magic and so lovely to catch up with mum and Q after about 3 weeks apart!

Yesterday and today were the most relaxing and cruisey days at Mum and Q's. We sat in the spa, watched movies, played with the doggies, ate yummy food, and did a ton of laundry - a successful weekend! We just got back to the apartment and are getting ready for the fun and busy week ahead! Stay tuned!