Okay, so Heidi came to visit me in LA for a few days, and amidst the chaos of film prep, we managed to have a great time. As per my dad's advice, after picking her up from the airport, we went to dinner at Marie Callender's, which amazingly enough is located within a short walking distance of where I live, and only two or three blocks down from the LAFSC center. Their strawberry pie has whole strawberries on it... and they're sort of huge. By sort of, I mean they are entirely huge. There's still left over pie in my fridge right now, but there probably won't be for too much longer.
Thursday, my sister went with me to Naimie's, which is a bit of a distance away, but we
potentially saw Nicholas Cage driving a Ferrari next to us on the highway. Anyway, Naimie's is a makeup store that has lots of film hair/makeup supplies and such. It was soooo cool. While a consultant was explaining makeup options to us, Heidi decided to use the test makeup on me, so I was quite colorful, with yellow and iridescent fuchsia on one eye, blue and green on the other, and a different color glitter on each cheek. She went to class with me, where we were watching our MPP film rough cuts, and gave me some notes on mine, what she did and didn't like. Although we may not see eye to eye on things, I value her opinion over most other people's. 
Thursday night we attempted to go to a clothing/costume warehouse that happened to be located in south LA... it was closed, and we were both extremely pleased about that because we couldn't wait to get out of there. So we drove back to Yogurtland, and then went to the Duff's for Community night.
Friday I went to my internship for the morning (I work until 1-2ish on Fridays), while Heidi went to LACMA. When I got off, I went wardrobe/prop shopping again, and got a few things. After that, Heidi and I met up at Whimsic Alley, one of the coolest stores around here, which is magically located right across from school. She bought me a Hedwig! She also thoroughly enjoyed the Severus Snape lego keychain I gave her.
After that, we went out to the Santa Monica Pier.
Neither of us have been there, so it was an exciting adventure for both of us! Albeit cold and windy, it was beautiful and full of life. Heidi even touched the Pacific Ocean for the first time. I've still got sand in my shoes. Santa Monica is awesome, and it has this great place where pedestrians just walk around, with lots of shops and restaurants. There's a charm to that area, that town, that the rest of LA just lacks. Funny story... so Heidi and I were running across a crosswalk to make it in time, and Heidi's camera case exploded and her camera went flying in three pieces. We managed to get it all picked up quickly and dashed out of the street (the cars were nice and didn't even honk at us. They were probably too busy laughing though...). When we put it all back together, it worked just fine.
Saturday afternoon she flew out after having spent the rest of the day on set with me. It was too short, but I have to enjoy it for what it was.
