Tickets purchased!

I will be getting reimbursed for my plane ticket once I get to L.A. Kind of cool, because this gives me the opportunity to spend a few extra days in Los Angeles before and after the workshop. I decided to fly out on Friday, July 30. I'll get there around 11:30 in the morning, and will spending time with my friend Gerrad (hey, Gerrad!!). I'm hoping I can sweet talk him into spending a day at Disneyland - I simply CANNOT go to Los Angeles without visiting the Mother Ship! It would be crazy! The workshop starts Sunday night, and ends Friday night. My hotel reservation runs until Saturday morning, and I am taking the red-eye out that night (one more thing to cross off of the bucket list), so I have another full day in the city. GREAT rates out and back - $277 roundtrip, which Gerrad tells me is a fantastic price.

In the meantime, I have been researching a lot of stuff about Koreatown. Helie Lee, one of the co-founders of the Academy, has a list online of Koreatown hot spots, and I am seriously thinking about visiting a Korean spa one night. Massage, body scrub, facial, serious pampering. It's at the Olympic Spa, very near the hotel. Still thinking about it, but I think that will be a great end-of-summer treat - the only thing is, like Japan, the spa is experienced while you are buck naked. Hmm. Will require serious thought, but since I have dropped that fear as a result of visiting a hot springs resort in Japan, I think I can do it! What would you do?