Nov 24th-Dec 6th - Thanksgiving & Good-bye LA!

On Sunday Mike's parents went back home and during the day I went to Spoon by H to eat lunch with my friend Autumn. The next day I did a photo shoot and Mike had meetings. Later I went to my friend Erica's house and we baked cookies together! After Mike and I realized we had not eaten dinner yet so we went to Cafe Med on Sunset Boulevard before they closed and overindulged!

Tuesday I had a go-see for Forever 21 and Lucca Couture. For dinner Mike and I went to Spoon with Autumn because we all love it there. Then Mike and I went to The Grove and it was absolutely beautiful! I love looking at Christmas lights and we had fun standing in the snow that they made!

The next day Mike and I went shopping at Beverly Center and we ran into my old friend Anthony Dominic who works at TMZ. At night we ate at Katana on Sunset Boulevard where the food is always delicious!

Thursday was Thanksgiving Day and I Skyped with my parents and my Grandma since I was not home to spend the day with them. Mike and I went to Newport to celebrate with Mike's cousin Sylvie which was nice. We went to her apartment with a couple of her friends and we all cooked together. I was in charge of the cranberry sauce and everything turned out great! It was nice that we could be together to celebrate away from home.

That weekend I got a call at 1:30am from my cousin Amanda who lives on the same street as me in New York, where it was 4:30am. She said that a man was breaking into cars and houses in the neighborhood and when the police officers arrived their dog was reacting to my garage. They tried to call my parents but they were not home so they had Amanda call me. Then an officer got on the phone and asked for my permission to break the door to get in and of course I permitted him! They looked around and did not find the suspect. I was so scared but I found out the next morning they caught the man less than a mile from my house!

The next day was my friend Ritz's birthday who lives in New York and I made plans to see her the coming week! I had a photo shoot and then the next day Mike and I met up with my friends Alics and David. We went to a place where there are large flat screen televisions that you can choose to play any video game on! We had a lot of fun dancing to DDR and doing other games together.

Then we went to dinner at Sushiya on Sunset Boulevard with Sylvie and her friends which was fun! On Monday I had a go-see for MLV and later I went with my friends Lindsay and Dana to go hiking at sunset. It was a gorgeous view but we stayed a little too long and had to walk back down the mountain in the dark using our phones to light the path.

That day I had a go-see for Barton Perreira and then Mike and I moved our belongings to the W Hotel to stay there for the last few days of our trip, which was beautiful!

On Thursday I worked for Modnique.com one last time before leaving. It was bittersweet because the whole team has become my good friends and I was going to miss them. They understood that I had to go after my dream job of being Miss USA or Miss Universe. We had fun on set like always and I was thankful to have another shoot with them, which made for about the nineteenth time working together!

Afterwards I had a going away dinner with Mike, Alics, Jarrett, David, Autumn, Lindsay, Julie, Cindy, Jay at my favorite place, Spoon by H! It was nice to have everyone together and I am so thankful to have these people in my life. <3

On my last day there I went into the Ford office to say goodbye because I was going to be leaving that weekend to go back to New York. They knew that in January I would be competing for Miss New York USA and if I won I would not be back. Everyone was so supportive of my dream even though they were sad to see me go. They knew this time was coming because when I first signed with them they wanted to do a three-year contract and I changed it to one year because I knew that I wanted to enter in the pageant and they completely understood. I had an amazing year working in California and I greatly appreciate that Ford Models and Chantale Nadeau gave me this opportunity.

At night Mike took me to The Redbury which was a cool environment and delicious tapas. We went to Spoon by H for dessert and we said our goodbyes. The family that owns Spoon is so sweet and Yoon has become a good friend of mine. She gave me a special cake and tea to bring back to the hotel and then I packed to go to New York City!