My US West Coast Trip

6 Jun

Hey Guys,

As promised here’s my account of my favourite moments on the Miller trip. Firstly, I gotta say; we live in a beautiful country with great people and great prospects. More than anything thats what this trip validated for me. BIG UP MZANSI, we proper got it good.

OK, now to the good stuff. We started off in LA, all excited to go to one of the hottest clubs in the city. And guess what?  I got sick!!! REALLY sick (I promise NO visuals). The doctor got called into my room, and it was a night in bed for me. The good news is that I got to watch some American television, which was a great learning experience. I picked up quiet a few things like; our ads are sooo much better, but the variety of television choices is beyond amazing. With the right formula, you can literally make anything a succesful TV show in America. Which really got me thinking…

The next day I woke up feeling fresh and ready to take off to San Francisco. What a beautiful city! Won’t say much, as the pix will tell the story. Oh and a girl got some mad shopping done!!!

VEGAS!!! As they say; “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!” Well peeps, NOT with me. Here we stayed at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Saying it was like Sun City on steriods is THE understatement of the century. Its just as beautiful.  Just MASSIVE. The rooms were big and gorgeous with amazing views of the city that never sleeps. Our pool deck was amazing, and everyone fabulously walks around in their bikinis & baggies. Everything you’ve ever seen, read or heard about Vegas, is…100% true x10. Its like new year’s eve everynight. We went to Tao night club, that owes its fame to the Kardashians. There were gorgeous girls, in skimpy lingerie, dancing all night on levels in cages. whilst the dance floor was packed to the rim with clubbers jamming to the hottest tunes. Thanx to Miller, we had the dopest VIP area, where the clutter never affected us.

We all couldn’t wait for the next morning as it was back to LA and brought us hours closer to the MTV Movie Awards. Russel Brand as host was hella funny. Seeing the simplicity of the stage and its dramatics being created by great lighting made me wish an SA production was there to witness. Side Note: the SAMAs were amazing, great stage, great production – not all our awards have that big a budget. This proved to me, that the same dramatics can be created on a smaller budget.

Seeing Amber Rose in real life, made me realize what a “thick” woman really is. This calls for a blog on its own…

Aight peeps. Check my pix for more deets ❤

 

 

17 Responses to “My US West Coast Trip”

  1. karabz 06/06/2012 at 11:19 PM #

    Glad u had a gr8 time girl, and just want u to knw dat u realy inspire me alot..May God continue to bless you

    • minniedlamini 07/06/2012 at 3:42 PM #

      thank you Karabo for your kind words, I receive and claim the Blessings!!!

  2. karabz 06/06/2012 at 11:22 PM #

    I want to start my tv production company would realy appreciate some tips and advice

    • minniedlamini 07/06/2012 at 3:41 PM #

      get in touch with a production company and see if they have any internship programmes on offer. Its a starting point…

      • karabz 07/06/2012 at 6:01 PM #

        Yeah,i tryed dat and i was nt succesful until i decided to start mine, nw Mzansi magic is commissioning for briefs i want to give it a shot…!!! I believe dat i can do all things thru christ who stregthens me

  3. Tumisho Masha (@TumishoMasha) 07/06/2012 at 5:43 AM #

    Hey Minnie

    Sounds like you had loads of fun and still had your thinking cap on the whole time coz I can see you learnt a lot from the trip as well. Great blog my dear! Loving your vibrant and playful style of writing and well thought out prose.

    • minniedlamini 07/06/2012 at 3:37 PM #

      Thanks Mash, for always encouraging me. Cant wait to get back to The Wild – I hope you’ll be there tomorrow. I’ve missed you guys. Yall better be on full alert – I might just blog about you and The Wild antics *winks* – actully I am going to!!!

  4. NomsZA 07/06/2012 at 11:40 AM #

    Sounds like fun… I can’t seem to locate the pictures though.

    • minniedlamini 07/06/2012 at 3:40 PM #

      will upload them just now. had network problems late night and jetlag just overwhelmed me.

  5. shirlez 08/06/2012 at 1:45 PM #

    Miss Minnie it is so nice to see you grow into this person that you have become from ur days at Spirit Sundae(i think),to live en nw to bigger and better things, ure a true inspiration and im glad you learnt so much in this trip that you can bring back in S.A but mostly im glad you enjoyed it…en plz blog about the wild as well!

  6. spanela 09/06/2012 at 2:56 PM #

    Wow, your trip sounds amazing, now I wish I had your life. I only saw today that you actually have a blog, will be reading it everyday, I too have my own blog please check it out when you can http://www.spanela.wordpress.com

  7. Nkululeko Manqele 10/06/2012 at 9:31 AM #

    sounds like you had all the fun! #inspiring

  8. Legend Manqele (@LegendManCool) 10/06/2012 at 9:33 AM #

    it feels good to see you travel and live out your dreams…it keeps us on our toes!

  9. nocutts 10/06/2012 at 7:22 PM #

    Wow that sounds like a great trip. I envy you, I’m a huge Amber Rose fan, I hope her style was on point. I’ve read a couple of ur posts. Lol I love your writing style. I can actaully picture u reading it in my mind. Thumbs up.

    • minniedlamini 12/06/2012 at 1:31 PM #

      Thank YOU!!! I’ll keep “reading into your mind”

  10. dikhumomoeti 25/10/2012 at 3:34 AM #

    Hey Minnie 🙂 Sorry to leave this comment on an unrelated post… I just wanna know where you get your hair done? The hair you have on The Wild NOW? What kind of hair is it and where did you get it done?