No Officer, we don't have any fruit or animals...

We decided to wake up early Wednesday morning to get to LA and do everything we wanted to do. So we set all of our alarm clocks for 8am… simple enough, right? Of course not. My alarm went off first and I quickly turned it off since no one else was getting up. Zach heard my alarm, and thinking it was 8 am, decided we’d get an extra hour of sleep since he was still tired. An hour later, the hotel alarm clock went off and Zach got up to figure out what time it was. His phone time was different from the alarm clock and the laptop, so he got online to find a world clock. We finally realized my phone was on Central time, the hotel alarm clock was Mountain time, and Zach’s phone was Pacific time!
The road to LA was as incredible as the previous rides. Driving through the mountains never got old. We had our first traffic incident as Latisha (not being racist, that’s what was on her license plate!) decided to make the rear bumper of her big SUV kiss our front fender. But La-a didn’t want to scuff up her makeup, so we avoided any collision. Oh look. Here’s Latisha (below).At the California border, we had to stop at the Agriculture checkpoint. Our first concern was anything from Zach’s vegetable tray being left in our cooler! Second, Corey hid the sunflower seeds in his pants. They asked us if we had any food, plants, or animals and we made it through without any trouble!We exited the mountains to see Los Angeles in all of it’s smoggy glory. Traffic was horrible! Corey was left spotter and Dave was right spotter. I navigated the GPS while Zach navigated traffic. After eating at In-N-Out, we headed to Santa Monica Pier for the sunset. Many of the locals were confused about why there were so many Alabama and Texas people. They then asked where the Rose Bowl was (someone else at In-N-Out asked the same)! We watched the sunset then drove to UCLA. We wandered the campus and ate at Sbarro in their campus dining facility. We stuck out like sore thumbs, but it’s ok. They have a whole nother (different) style in California! We got a parking ticket, but Zach's not paying. We drove down Sunset Blvd and saw some huge houses. We saw every exotic car you could imagine. We took the tram to Hollywood and saw the Grauman's Chinese Theatre and the stars. Corey got a picture with Bugs Bunny without realizing it would cost him. Shout out to Justin.We were followed by a Chinese evangelist who left us chanting "Roll Tide." Zach couldn't get into The Piano Bar because he was wearing shorts. We made our way back to the hotel and got a good night's rest before the big day!