Los Angeles Baby

Hey all! So we arrived in Los Angeles at around 9:30am on Thursday the 1st of May after a hellish 13 hour flight. Hellish only because it was so long and not nearly enough sleep was had, not because anything bad actually happened. Although we were late for our connecting flight from Sydney to LA and got attitude from the silly bitch at the gate - when she asked where we’d been and we told her we had come straight from our Adelaide flight as quickly as we could she was all “no, you were on the bus an hour ago”. Well I’m SORRY but that’s how damn long it took to get through all the security and such! Get more people on the desks if you want us to go faster! rant over - not that I’m bitter about it or anything Oh no wait, something bad did happen, a stupid woman opened the overhead compartment and because we’d had turbulence my laptop fell out and landed right on Joanna’s head - I don’t think she even said sorry. Our hotel was very cool but the room was really small, can’t really describe so check out pics.

On our first day in LA after checking into the hotel we hit Denny’s for lunch (they are EVERYWHERE) - mmm pancakes. Then it was time for a tour around LA, Beverly Hills, Hollywood and Venice Beach. The beach was really quite lovely, silly me for not realising they had such nice beaches. For the rest of the tour we got to see Rodeo Drive, Melrose ave, we took a walk along the Hollywood walk of fame (I think the lamest star I got a pic of was John Tesh or perhaps Kenny Loggins - Siobhain I know you’d be all up in that :P. Also got some snaps at Graumans Chinese theatre where we got accosted by people dressed up as characters - get away from me Zorro! We found a nice spot to take a picture of the Hollywood sign which apparently is made from Australian materials. What else, what else… oh of course, we hit Hooters for dinner - a must! The food was terrible but hey it’s Hooters. I got myself a jumper and Kat and Joanna got the same shirts that the girls wear. Finding alcohol in the supermarkets here is strange and it’s really cheap, we found a MASSIVE bottle of vodka that would have been cool to get, never seen one even close to that big before.

Day two was Disneyland day! Somehow we forgot to book a shuttle to get there so an approximately $180 return cab ride later we made it to Disney. What can I say about Disney? Well it’s fun and disturbingly clean and tidy but get rid of all the kids and it would be so much better Let’s also just say that the patrons of Disney show exactly why the US is the fattest country in the world. I got myself some Mickey Ears but sadly didn’t find the mouse himself to be able to take a photo with. Pirates of the Caribbean ride is AWESOME, we went two rounds on that one. Spinning teacups also a fav. Siobhain, you would have loved the two parades we saw (one was the electric parade at night). The costumes, fake smiles, overall Disney sugary cheeseieness - priceless. Jordan, totally filmed the Lion King float for you where Simba (I’m assuming it was simba) was singing - pure money. We we also went over to California Adventure land which is directly opposite and we went on the tower of terror ride - I actually got a bit scared. Ride goes up, drops you down, goes up again, drop, up again, doors open (now we are really high) drops right down again. Butts were off the seats at one point. My only regret is not getting to go on the roller coaster but the other two lameos refused to go on with me. I guess i’ll just have to wait for London to go on more rides

Day three was another tour, this time celebirty homes. We didn’t see any actual celebrities but we saw plenty of houses - Bon Jovi, Ben Affleck, Orlando Bloom, Scarlette Johanson, The Osbornes and many more. Oh Linda, we saw Lauren Conrads house, apparenlty she just moved in that week - jealous? After the tour we hit Melrose Ave for some shopping. We found a really cute Tokyo inspired store where I got a Tofu robot shirt and a Gamma Go jacket (love that site) so I was pleased. To end the day dinner at Panda express, yay, there was one right near the hotel! Happy Panda!

I can’t think of anything else but I’m sure there’s more. I’ll post when I think of stuff. Arrived in New York today so i’ll post again when we are done here.

Things i’m not loving about LA:

• The food is horrible (everything is HUGE and fully fat) it’s making us sick
• The iced tea sucks, you’d think American’s wouldn’t be able to stuff up a sugary drink but somehow they do.
• Everyone working in the shops at Dinsneyland is ugly very unfortunate looking - Kat has a theory that they are all related and interbred.
• Tipping! bloody tipping, silliest thing ever invented, all my money is gone to tip people for moving our bags and stuff.
• Didn’t see one bloody Krispy Kreme!

That’s it for now, miss you all lots.

-Natalie xoxo

PS Some pics are up so have a look but Stay tuned for many more.