Mandii Takes on LA During the ESPYS [Pics] Part 1

By Mandii B

Updated: July 15, 2011

My time in LA was phenomenal and I had easily the best experience I’ve had in a very long time. Check out pictures from my adventures prior to the ESPY Awards here. Rewind to the days leading up and look at all the fun I had. Continue reading to see galleries and tons of pictures.

I flew from Miami to Vegas earlier than ever to meet up with my girl Jackie from ThatSportsBabe.com where we then took our journey west to LA. We stopped on the way and had Tommy’s Burgers. I believe that was the place. Everything was filled with chilli! Pretty messy to eat but AWESOME!

As soon as we touched down in LA, we rushed home and got dressed and ready for the PlayBoy All-Star Kickoff party at Boulevard 3 in Hollywood. I did red carpet media where FCP caught up with Russell Westbrook of the Thunder, JB Laflin, Andre Miller, and many others. I must say though, the party on the inside was AMAZING! Open bar and playboy bunnies dancing with body painted jerseys…does it get any better. I also ran into Amare Stoudemire (Ciara not in hand) and PTI’s Mike Wilbon who was hysterical. Check out some of the pictures from the PlayBoy party.

With little to no sleep, Tuesday was the best day of the entire trip! It started off early as I was invited to a complimentary spa treatment at Bliss W Hotel in Hollywood. The oxygen facial was absolutely amazing if you ever happen to step in. The massage was just as nice. The Softcup retreat has this “Yummy Lemonade” is what we called it– Lemonade, champagne and vodka that ALL the ladies enjoyed! I enjoyed the company of miss Gabrielle Union and Kita, Terrell Owens PR from the TO Show and met many other amazing women.

These girls are Amazing!!!

Just two floors down from the Softcup retreat at Bliss Spa, I went down and attended the ESPY Style studio where I was rained on with free gifts! I felt pretty boss attending this event. I recieved a pair of free shoes, Tshirts, skull candy headphones, and so much more things I can’t even recall. I was able to try out the new XBOX kinect golf game in the XBox Kinect lounge where I ran into Lisa Leslie. Her hands were full of course. Also while in the timeframe room where they were showing me $100k watches -___- I ran into Dallas Mavericks JJ Barea, who was just a tad bit taller than me.