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So the other night I had the best almost-clubbing experience ever.

[10:30pm] So Monica, Ju, Tiffany, Ben, Richard and I all got into Nate's car and drove to Hollywood Blvd. It took about 15 to 20 minutes or so. Once we got there we made a couple of U-turns trying to find a place to park. We soon found an underground parking garage though. It's located under the mall. Pretty cool :] Well, once we got up to the street, we correctly guessed which direction we should head. That night, there was this event going on at the Chinese Theater. I have no idea what though. All I know is that there were a lot of people and cameras and lights and that part of the street was blocked. Probably some opening or award ceremony. Anyways, we finally found the club [Club Bang]. As we walked closer to the club, there were a bunch of people who were hanging about on the "balcony" of the club. They were all dressed in black-like hard metal rockers. We asked the bouncers if that was Club Bang. He said, "Yeah, but it's gothic night."

"OH." haha. So we headed back the direction we came. We saw some guys that were kind of following us looking for Club Bang. We told them that it was gothic night. They were disappointed. We told them we were gonna head down the street and look for another club. They said there was nothing that way...except for "flaming gay night." haha. SOOOO, we called our trusty friend Ruby. She advised us to go up to the top floor of the mall and find a club there. So we went back to the mall. The first set of stairs that led up were beautiful. It was like a grand staircase that you see in movies [that's the only way I know how to describe it]. Then we took the escalators. We went up and up and up...until at the last escalator up there was a sign blocking it. Apparently there was a special event that night and we couldn't go to that club. So we looked around and saw that there was another club on the level below [it was an open spaced mall]. So we headed down there and realized that the guys with us didn't fit the dress code to get in. They didn't allow sneakers or jackets and such. Basically the dress code was formal. So, Ju asked the bouncer about the club D-V8 [the one Ruby told us about]. He said that it was only open on Friday and Saturday nights-it was a Thursday night.

Apparently, we had chosen the wrong night to go clubbing :/

Well, that was my first attempt ever to go clubbing-and Richard's too. So we both had fun just walking around and staring at stuff/people. The other four however were trying hard to find a place to get their dance on. Richard and I didn't really know what we were missing out on so we had fun :]

After that we decided to head back to the car. We took the escalator down to the metro. The wind from the metro was blowing my hair like in Pocahontas :] ahha. Then I spread my arms and said, "Monica, HOLD ME!" She grabbed me and it was like a scene in Titanic. muahahha. yeah. We figured out that there was no way to the garage through the metro so we went back up to the street.

After that we found our way back to the garage and drove back to Biola. [1:00am]

All in all-it was a fun experience. Not exactly the same experience as clubbing, but still fun. Maybe I'll attempt it again one day. Maybe. I'm actually more curious now that I've been that close.