Summer X

Probably one of the biggest and most fun highlights of my summer would of course have to be the 4 days that I spent with my sister Katy...Or the 4 days I spent with my sister Katy in Los Angeles attending X-Games 13. For those of you who have lived in a cave for your whole life, the X-Games are the olympics, the super bowl, the world series, the stanley cup, the world cup, the masters of extreme sports! That should put it in perspective for you...people! The X-Games are just awesome! My favorite sport would be all of the motocross events including "Best Trick" - Contenders have 2 jumps to blow the judges minds with their trick. "Step Up" - Contenders have a certain distance to start and hit a vertical jump, they must clear a bar at a certain heighth and it is continually raised until all but one remain. "Freestyle" - Probably the biggest X-Games event. Contenders have 1 min. and 30 sec. to do a run on a freestyle course comprised of jumps composed of different distances and metal and dirt ramps and the one with the highest judged score wins. "Supermoto" - Speedbikes mixed with dirtbikes. Dirtbikes are fitted with street tires and have a course that is half asphalt and half dirt. 32 grueling laps over dirt without dirt tires and speeds up to 90 mph. "Motocross" - Similar to supermoto but much shorter, all dirt, more jumps, and closer quarters. Tournament style competition grid with 1 man on top.
So there, X-Games...FACT: They rock and you know it. QUESTION: Can you handle it?
So it wasn't just the actual games that were awesome, Katy and I (notice the proper grammar thankyou) stayed at Le Merigot in Santa Monica...the scenic Santa Monica! It was awesome. We had 2 days where we did not attend X-Games events so we toured and partied! We visited the pier and rode the roller coaster on it. We rented bikes and biked to Venice beach a.k.a. muscle beach (famous for strongman competitions...these people are ripped!). Men in speedoes, homless people begging for marijuana, and innapropriate (but helarious) t-shirts...thats Venice beach! Venice beach is a fun place to people watch and there are many cultures gathered there to well...sell stuff to the poor unexpecting tourists.
On our last day we had a red eye flight so we didn't need to be at the airport till' around 10:30 that night. We went to Hollywood and toured that. Here is a tip...don't go to Rodeo Dr. on a sunday after 6 o'clock...it is a ghost town because all of the shops are closed! Katy and I didn't think about that so around 5:30 we decided that the shops could wait and that we should eat...around 6:30 we realized our mistake and walked around window shopping...ya...Hollywood<3<3 But we did get to see some nice homes and cars in Beverly Hills. After the "Hillz" as I call them...we decided that we had exhausted all of our tourism opportunities and drove to the airport arriving around 9:30? That is a guess...anyway the sucky part was that we were in different terminals, 4 and 7, and her flight left at 11:50 and mine at 12:20...so we got there and I checked in, walked to her terminal...a painful walk (Katy will get that and I'll keep it that way) and waited forever for her to check in. We said our goodbyes and that was it...the journey was over and we were headed home. I arrived home around 6 and I expect that Katy arrived even later...atleast I got to sleep till 2 that afternoon, katy had to go to work. Well if you ever have the opportunity to go to the Summer X-Games...I would highly reccomend it!