Shelby Grimnes Photography: California trip

So last Friday, I took off to California and when I say I, I'm mean Me and only me. I drove solo to California for my first time because the people I was driving couldn't wait till Friday to go so they ditched me and left Thursday. Anyways the drive wasn't bad, expect there was a lot of semi's out on the I-10 and it made the drive take longer than it should, and there was a roll over accident in Riverside so I had to sit in traffic for a bit, but other than that and talking to myself a lot and yelling at the cars in front of me it was a good drive. I left right after school on Friday and got in around 5:30, picked up Sean and headed down to the Siren and Reliance warehouse for Zac and Chris's Pro party. Zac asked me to shoot some photos at the thing, and I thought I was just going around and snapping off a few photos but when I got there Rachel and Hannah set up a "photo booth" thing so I ended up shooting people at that the whole night, it was really fun. Here's the link to the photos if you wanna see them http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=120627&id=682275887 .... Eggy Boy and Chris played a set there to, they are called Chris and The Egg, it was pretty sick. Josh Harmony played for at least 2 hours, he played all his new stuff and some old stuff to, it was rad. The party went on until like midnight and after cleaning up all of us went down the Dennys and got a nice midnight meal then after that I went to the house where I was staying and kicked it with Zac, Eric and Rachel for a bit, then ended up sleeping on the floor because I was way to lazy to pump up my air mattress, all I wanted to do was sleep.

The next day I went skating with Eric, Britt, Caleb, Nick and Stephen, we went to a couple spots and Caleb and Britt got tricks, I drove my car in the 405 ditch to, it was pretty fun. After we got done skating we all went back to the house and chilled, then Eric, Britt and I went a picked up Sean from Biola and went to the KKSM demo in Downly. Chris, Casey, Carney, Eric, P-Hart, Davey, Deezle and Eggy shreded and Davey preached the Word and two kids got saved, it was cool. After words Eric, Britt and I went back to the house and chilled then Zac, Rachel and I went and got food, then went back and chilled with everyone and went to bed, well I didn't end up going to bed till 3 because I was editing photos from the Pro party.

Sunday was pretty rad, woke up kinda early to go help move ramps with Chris, Casey, Eggy, Deezle, Darren, Eric, Davey, Britt and Rick. Then we all went to starbucks and got our coffee on, then Britt, Eric and I went to church. After church we went back to the house and hung out with Rachel while Zac was picking up Josiah from LAX. After they got back Josiah, Jordan, Eric, Britt and I went and got some food then went skating. We had only like 2 hours left of daylight so we didn't have that much time to go shred. We went to this gap thing that Chad Tim Tim nollie back heels in the Sol trailer, but they was a car in front of it and we got the boot because I guess Asians go to school on Sundays. Then we went to this bump over a flat gap but there was this huge dark tree shadow in front of it, so it was nasty looking for photos and filming, so we went to this super long ledge in Huntington and filmed and shot a photo, it got dark when before we were done skating so we took off. I dropped off Josiah and Jordan at the house, then went and picked up Hannah and got on the road back to AZ. Left at about 7, Arizona time and got back at 1.

It was a really fun trip, it was the kind of trick when I didn't want to leave. I'm going back sometime during my winter break, so I'm pumped out that.

Here are some photos from the trip.