Saturday night and Mates Rehearsal Hall

Saturday night was a lot of fun. We hung out in the Venice beach area most night checking out some of the stores and eventually some of the clubs. I actually ran into a couple Belmont West students (students studying in Los Angeles for a semester) and we got some drinks and went headed to one of there friends houses in the Venice Beach area.

It was a beautiful area and if you have seen the movie Valentines day and remember the canals where Ashton Kutcher lived, thats where we were. In fact after hanging out at the apartment for a while we decided to go canoeing in the canals. We took out two canoes, one with the two guys and the other with three girls. We won the ran and as we made made our way back to the dock we heard the girls capsize. Now in most case the gentlemanly thing to do would be to jump out and help them but, the water was only three feet deep and absolutely nasty. They started making there way toward our canoe and in fear of the girls capsizing us out of spite the other guy in my boat just started yelling "row away!" lol. They were kinda pissed but got over it.

We spent Sunday rehearsing at Mates rehearsal studio. At first I was skeptical since the place was essentially a warehouse with a stage and an awesome monitor system. Then I learned that it had some awesome history. Def Leopard did a music video there, Guns and Roses started out playing there, and a bunch of other notable rock bands rehearse there. I didnt snag any pictures but it really wasn't much to see.

later