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One of our lazier days…
So today was kindof dissapoint.
Firstly, we were supposed to go to a live-taping of The Price is Right this morning. I posted a status about it and everyone seemed so pumped for our group that I didn’t have the heart to tell them that our plans fell through ):
We left the dorms at 10am, drove for about an hour, and then made the quickest stop possible for 11 at In n’ Out Burger. We ended up having to eat in the car (which was an adventure) because we had to be at The Price is Right at noon. The tickets said to be there at noon and we did exactly what they said! EXACTLY. When we got there, we jumped in line and waited for about 20 minutes. This guy came out and started counting everybody and then, RIGHT IN FRONT OF US, cut off the line. Everybody from our group and behind wasn’t allowed in because there were too many people. It was fricken lame. Our group was so excited and we had spent the previous night studying youtube clips and quizzing each other. It was our big dissapointment of the whole trip ):
We begrudgingly, headed back to the van which was parked in the haughty taughty outside mall called The Grove. Apparently, if you are a celebrity, this is were you shop. It was really, really nice and had an extreme California feel to it. I was definitely surprised we didn’t see anyone famous while we were there.
From there we decided to go to the Reagan Library (which we were supposed to do tomorrow) because we didn’t really have any other plans. The library was in the Simi Valley and it was pretty interesting. We got to walk through the Air Force One plane that flew Reagan around as well as a museum filled with Reagan’s clothes, letters, videos, and other such memorabilia.
I know more about Reagan than I did before the trip, mostly that his marriage with his wife, Nancy, was the most adorable thing on the planet. They were just so…cute. I don’t know how to describe it. He wrote her over 700 love letters, some of which were displayed in the museum. It was heart-wrenching.
Professor Hohle wanted us to look for the interplay betwen Hollywood and politics and I have a few thoughts. Firstly, Reagan was definitely an “entertainment”-esque president. People knew him because he had been an actor and arguably that played a large role in garnering votes. He was a household name, someone people probably already knew and liked from his films and I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that a lot of people voted for him for these reasons alone. With this in mind, the tour discussed his wife a lot, who left Hollywood to be with Reagan and help him during his presidency. She too was a well-known name and the pair of them were apparently a formidably political team. He was the big picture politician and she had a more acute eye for politics. It’s interesting to think Nancy had such a powerful impact on Reagan’s decisions during his terms.
So yes. That was the library. We spent two and half hours driving home (BLEGH) to the dorms to change before heading to the Blue Water Grill for dinner. It was… pretty good but it’s definitely not my favorite restuarant from the trip.
Only two more days. I’m a stange mixture of excited and sad.
And with that, pajama time! -
