Diddy Riese & UCLA

This may be my absolute favorite thing in all of LA so far (well, of course besides the bubble tea place). Tonight, MARMOL, and I went to Diddy Riese, a place that has been recommended to me countless times from a variety of different people. Basically, it's this crazy popular ice cream/cookie shop that sells custom ice cream sandwiches. Once you survive the line down the block and finally make it into this quaint little store, you get to choose the type of ice cream that you want to be sandwiched in between 2 soft, gooey, cookies of your choice. They had every kind of cookie and ice cream flavor imaginable! I decided to get 2 chocolate chip cookies with regular vanilla ice cream, because I am super plain when it comes to desserts and love the classic combinations. I saw people getting all sorts of crazy ice cream sandwiches though, so next time I'll have to be a little more adventurous with my selection. Now that I think about it, you can definitely get 2 different types of cookies, instead of 2 of the same. Anyway, the line was down the block and it took maybe 20 to 30 minutes to get through it, but it was well worth it. The ice cream was marvelous, the cookies were soft and gooey, and it was just perfect in every way. My only complaint is that it was difficult to eat, but who cares about that anyway?!

 You can kind of see how long the line was for the Diddy Riese from this angle. The line kept growing too! And no, I didn't cross the street just to take this picture, I had to get money out of the ATM! I probably would have though even if I didn't need the ATM.

 Marmol was not too happy to be waiting in the huge line for an ice cream sandwich. I said that obviously it had to be worth it if all these other people were waiting, AND I WAS SO RIGHT!

Check out their website: Diddy Riese - you'll want to book a flight out here immediately after.

Since Boca Loca (the bubble tea place) was open and right next to Diddy Riese, I obviously had to get a bubble tea, my second of the day, ice cream makes you thirty alright?! I introduced Marmol to it and he ended up liking it and ordered his own! Wooo! I turned another person into a bubble tea fan!

This may be my dream come true, bubble tea AND a delicious ice cream sandwich!

I mean, COME ON! It doesn't get better than this.

After bubs, we decided to drive around the UCLA campus, see frat row, and watch all the drunk kids stumble across the street. This was definitely a bad idea, because now I miss college more than anything. There were tons of students running around, dressed up, and drunk. We spotted maybe like 20 different parties and we saw friends all hanging out aka getting wasted on their balconies, which reminded me of the 500 building in Courtyards junior year, RIP. It was the ultimate college town, exactly like Delaware, maybe even a little nicer. All the houses were gorgeous and the frat houses were monstrous. Anyway, my new goal in life is to become friends with people who go to UCLA so I can go to all those fun parties and pretend I'm in college again. Screw the real world and work, I'll just pretend I'm a UCLA student while I'm out here. Sounds good enough to me! I still love Delaware more though, and wouldn't have traded it in for anythanng!

Go Blue Hens!
<3 Loni