Lunch with Keira

June 22, 2011

Yesterday was my first day out and about in Los Angeles. Right after I dropped my Dad off at LAX airport I went straight to my high school friend Adam Raque's place in Toluca Lake. We had a blast. First he took me to the Griffith Observatory. Most of you may recognize this from the movie Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

You can look out over the entire city of L.A. It really puts it into perspective. You can tell where each town is by the groupings of sky scrapers. I was told I need to go back at night time because it looks even cooler.
 Next, Adam took me to one of his fav restaurants The Alcove. It is a really cute building with tables covered by umbrellas so you can eat outside. They had an impressive breakfast menu as well as lunch and goodies like cookies and cake. While sitting outside with Adam I looked over and saw Keira Knightley walk down the stairs to her table. My jaw dropped I was shocked to see her.

 For those of you who might not know her, she is a British actress from the first 3 Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Pride and Prejudice, Atonement, and Love Actually. I had to look at her a few times to make sure it was indeed her. At one point she looked back at me, we definitely had a moment. So, technically Adam and I have lunch with Keira Knightley. =)

After lunch we were driving back to Adam's I saw Celebrity Chef Curtis Stone talking to a guy on the side walk. I recognized him, but had to google his name later. I had seen him on tv and remembered he was a Blonde Australian Chef.



At the end of the day, Adam took me to downtown Burbank to show me some cool shops. Frozen Yogurt is pretty big here. Then he found out how I have always wanted to go to IKEA, but there are NONE in Indiana. So he took me to this HUGE IKEA a few blocks away. I realized this wasn't just any IKEA, this is THE (500) Days of Summer IKEA! A scene in the movie starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel was filmed in the Burbank IKEA store. Here is the clip for you guys to know what I'm talking about.
http://www.traileraddict.com/clip/500-days-of-summer/ikea
**SIDE NOTE: IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THIS MOVIE YOU MUST! It is so good. I love the writing and the format in which they edited the film.