My month long trip...Starting with LA...

It was a fantastic 1 month of travelling! Brought our Vietnam dealers to LA to visit our Headquarters on an incentive trip and took a side trip to Vegas, NY, London before heading back to LA again for the Educators' Conference....and then drove up to SF for a couple of days before heading back to Vietnam....

Sigh.....all good things must come to an end I guess....So now I'm back in the office, trying to clear up the work that has piled up AND at the same time getting over the jet lag...Tsk tsk...life is tough isn't it!??!? Heehee...

Since I had such a great time, I had to share them with you as well....Took loads of pictures so I guess you guys will be scrolling down a lot.... :P

So I started my trip in LA to visit the Dermalogica Headquarters as well as to attend a couple of classes..... Well, the office is in Carson to be exact and at this road called "Beachey Place"! Aiyoh, the name is sooo not nice.... hahaha....

This was our main mode of transport to everywhere....view from my seat....hehe...

And this was the highway that we used almost all the time to get to everywhere....Interstate 405...

So here's some pictures of the headquarters.... The building...

The lab where they do their research on ingredients...

They had this walkway/corridoor that had this spiral tunnel to get a futuristic effect....quite cool actually....And along the walls, they had these bubbles where you can get a sneak peek inside the various classrooms to see what's going on....This one is of a classroom for body spa techniques...

Here's some pictures of the classrooms from the inside...
Look like dentist chair right?! These are used for treatments that require only a short time and for treating specific areas on the face....like a quick fix type of treatment....

There were a couple of really interesting things that I saw when touring the office....One was this scooter/skater thingy....It seemed that the office was too big so some of the staff actually used this to move around!

Another funny thing was when I went to the creative department...It was the nicest looking and most cozy looking part of the office....except that they had this sitting on one of their shelves.... Why do they need this to be creative?!?!?

But my favourite part of the office was....the canteen! Look at this...it's so huge and looks really nice!

And it's also stocked up with snacks and drinks!! How cool is that!!?!?

We also visited their flagship salon on Montana... It was small but done up really nicely....

The company also brought us to this really lovely place called The Grove for dinner and shopping after that. The Grove was a really really nice place, the ambience was great and the shops were pretty fantastic too...and there were soooo many shops!

We went to this restaurant called Morels for dinner....It was a really nice looking restaurant with great ambience....

But.... the food SUCKED SO BAD!!! It was terrible!!! Amazingly bad! There was a choice of salmon or steak.... the salmon was soooo fishy that you could even smell it before they placed the dish on the table and the steak was soooo beefy I couldn't even eat it! Even with loads of tobasco sauce didn't help! I just ate the fries...me...ann toh...can't eat the steak...can you imagine how bad it was!?!?!? Tsk tsk....it looks real tasty in the picture doesn't it? Sigh...Cheated bad!


And when I saw this hanging on the wall, I was like 'WHAT!?!??!' Sure or not? Award of excellence?!?!?! But then again this was awarded by Wine Spectator....so maybe their wines not bad....Just dont ever ever go for their food!

Had dinner the next day at a chinese restaurant in Chinatown...But also bad! Was so salty and the waiters were so rude....Sigh....didnt' eat much...again....

Only perk was the shopping! Old Navy! Best ah! All the plus size clothes and so cheap! I went bersek! Heehee...but more was yet to come....