Short and Sweet

Hello! It's my birthday! I'm 24! Alex is making me a delicious-smelling breakfast! We're in her dad's really cool apartment in LA, sleeping in. Impressions of California so far:

-Palm trees! Weird. In fact, all of the foliage is different. It's shocking how disorienting that can be. It really doesn't look anything like PA.
-On that note, the architecture is also different. It's all very western-seeming to me, which makes perfect sense. Also very Mexican-looking. Again, makes sense. It's funny how I use regions of the world I've never seen to describe this, but you know.
-Mountains! There are mountains everywhere! It's beautiful.
-Smog. Enough said.


Alex just said my breakfast is ready...more insights later!