For the record, I don’t believe any of this exists and we’re going to find nothing there.

Hello!

After the Oscars, quite a crazy week ensued as we tried to show our East Coast friends a good time. This started Tuesday night, with a trip to the Hollywood IN-N-OUT!

Bay State mini-reunion!

After that delicious dinner (and the afterparty at Yogurtland), I left my jet-lagged friends and
headed to the Sagebrush Cantina in Calabasas for the Childrens Hospital Wrap Party! The Sagebrush has a great tented plaza for events, and the open bar was lovely. It was fun to see everyone from the show outside of the stressful hours and responsibilities associated with production.

Rob Corddry, introducing a clip reel of some of the funniest moments from the new season.

Rob Huebel, one of actor/writers on the show, smiles with some of the office folk.

Overall, it was a great evening, which was followed by a great day out on the town with Dante, Anthony, Liz, and Liz.

Our morning started out with a simple requirement: fruit. When I went to pick up the Boston crew from their hotel, they requested that we find a place that could satisfy their scurvy-like urges. What better place than the Farmers' Market? We picked out the strangest fruits we could find--like yellow plums and blood oranges.

After this brunch-type snack, we wandered aimlessly, finding hat stands and hot sauce shops. Basically, we just killed time until we could head to Beverly Hills to meet Erin at the FOX lot, where she met us for lunch. Unfortunately, photography is forbidden on the lot without a press pass, so you'll have to take my word that we saw parts of the Bones and How I Met Your Mother sets. Lunch at the Fox Commissary was fun, and allowed us to hop right over to the Rodeo Drive portion of Beverly Hills to window shop at all the fancy stores.

At Sprinkles in BH, we were forced to separate in order to protect the freshness of the cupcakes.

We all agree that the cupcakes are delicious, but I vote that Strawberry is the best flavor.

While killing time between cupcakes and the dinner we had planned at Henry's Hat, we drove over to the corner of Hollywood and Highland to check out the Walk of Fame.

Some necessary posing with the locals.

I even showed them the geocache we made famous a few blog post ago! This inspired us to use our remaining hour before dinner to seek out a geocache of our own near the restaurant...with some interesting results. Anthony used his smartphone power to find a cache nearby called "Madonna's Jog Path," supposedly right next to Madonna's former house. We tried to drive to the coordinates, which led us through some twisty turns down by the reservoir, with mixed results. No, we didn't have time to find the cache, but we *did* see a great view of the Hollywood sign!

Partial-success?

Also, looking the other way, we got a great view of the city at sunset.

Leaving Madonna's house behind (for now), we enjoyed a great dinner and some Uno and Scattegories at Henry's Hat before going to the Upright Citizen's Brigade theater in LA for the weekly Wednesday night "Facebook" show.

The show is performed by five great comedians, including Paul Scheer (the moderator from the LOST Paleyfest panel) and Rob Huebel (of Childrens Hospital fame). One of the regulars was out, so Rob Riggle (from Funny or Die's "Designated Driver" series) stepped in as a special guest.

The show works by choosing an audience member to interview about their facebook page, and using the gathered information as a basis for long-form improv. It's hilarious, especially when you know the person being interviewed. Luckily for us, they chose Lauren.

Lauren talked about soap operas (she repped Bay State!), Mad Men, Disney, and kitty pictures.

The results were amazing.

The next day, it was Lauren's turn to chauffeur around our Boston friends. She took them to the ABC Prospect lot, where we work on "General Hospital," to meet me for lunch at the commissary. Unfortunately, it's sweeps' week at GH, so we couldn't give them a full tour.

Soap Operas...represent.

Later that evening, after we got out of class, we picked the gang up again in order to try our luck at the Madonna geocache once more before they went back east, and Lauren, Dante, and I went north to San Francisco. Lauren and Erin decided it was a race to get to the cache's parking point.

It was a race that my team won. Of course.

While Erin's car got lost on twisty roads, we took action pictures.

When both cars were finally parked on the street in front of where the path seemed to start, we began our journey toward the cache.

Is this a good idea? Maybe?

We quickly decided that this part of the path could lead to nothing good, so we back-pedaled back to the cars. Not sure how to proceed, we were informed by Erin, Laur, and Dante that when they'd gotten lost on windy streets on the other side of the hill, they'd only been about 500 feet from the cache itself. It was only when finding the parking lot that they'd distanced themselves so far. We agreed to jump back in the cars and find a new jumping off point into the trail, one closer to our final destination, perhaps with more legal parking.

Sure enough, we found the opposite end of the trail, this one more paved and less creepy. Liz and Liz bravely leading the way, we began our journey...again.

It was pretty scary, but we didn't see any coyotes...on this side of the hill.

We searched and searched, but couldn't find the cache. It hadn't been found for months, and there had been vague warnings of water issues...so we had to give up. The hints about Laurel Sumac weren't too helpful, given that both sides of the trail were overgrown with the plant.

We didn't find the cache, but we did find a happy rock. Isn't that what it's all about?

All in all, a great week of laughs and adventure. Stay tuned for more Hollywood adventures with Erin, Anthony, Liz, and Liz...and for a crazy trip north with me, Lauren, Dante, and Nick!

-Jenn