Los Angeles / Hollywood - USA

Sydney to LA

It was an extremely long trip. 14hours on a plane. We were travelling with United Airlines and I have nothing good to say about their service. I had lack of sleep due to the flight attendants parading around. One of them ran over my foot with her trolley and didnt even think about saying sorry as she was more concerned with the snacks that went flying off the trolley. My mum asked for water and the guy responded with She's already done that. I mean what kind of a sick person refuses to give someone water on a plane. All things aside, the trip took alot out of me. We watched several movies. The first one was along came polly which was quite funny. I tried sleeping through the others but it didnt work.

Welcome to LA

We arrived in Los Angeles saturday 29th of may approx 10:30am. I was so dead tired and sleepy that the first thing I wanted to do was head to the hotel and sleep. We got off the plane and got our passports stamped with a 3month visa. A shuttle bus picked us up and took us to the hotel. We settled in our room and wanted to call my dad. We had difficulties in ringing him cuz we didnt know the correct area and country dialling numbers. Finally while we were outside at a pay phone a guy approached us and asked for a quater. We looked at him and told him we didnt know what a quater was. He ended up helping us make the phone call to Sydney, we gave him $5 and he ran like a crazy lunatic so happy. We were just glad we werent mugged hehehe

We were staying in downtown LA. Someone forgot to tell me how many spanish people there were there. The place is 90 % mexicans who only speak spanish. They refuse to speak to you in english. Just as well I learnt abit of spanish as this helped. ALl signs in resturants are all in spanish as well. I couldnt believe it. I was confused whether i was in America or Spain.

We ended up at the hotel and slept for the entire night. I remember waking up at 4am thinking what do i do now. I watched abit of TV and ended up falling back asleep around 5am. We got up around 10am and headed to Universal Studios.

DAY 2 - 30th May - Univeral Studios

The train station is like a 2minute walk from our place. We caught the metro into univeral city where I picked up my tickets and hollywood passes. We spent the entire day at universal studios checking out studios, backlots,rides etc. I have heaps of pictures from this so dont worry guys u will all see it. I was in UNiveral for 2minutes before I made my first purchase. Yes you have guess it people I brought a SLate for many reasons.

I walked out of Universal studios around 9pm and spent the next 3 hours in city walk. City walk is a very long street outside universal with resturants, shops, bars, clubs etc. It was amazing at night with all the lights and music. I ended up catching a train back to the hotel around midnight and feared i'll be mugged but luckly enough i maded it safe and sound.

DAY 3 - 31st May - Venice Beach

Today was a more relaxing day. I ended out to Venice beach California. This beach was amazing. It was huge and featured skate boarding rings, its own outside gym, markets, tennis courts etc. I spotted a guy selling bellydancing belts. I asked him how much they were. He tried selling them to me for US $65. I told him i'll rather buy it from Turkey hehehehe. I spotted an internet cafe there and was going to use it but it closed before i got to it. We spent most of the day at the markets, picking up shirts and stuff. One thing i noticed about America is that everything is cheap compared to Australia. You can buy nice Nike shoes for $30. Clothes, shoes are all cheap. So is petrol. Its like 50 cents a litre, where as were paying like $1.10 now.

We had pizza for dinner here. The pizza is quite huge. 2 slices of pizza in LA make up half a pizza. Portions of food is huge. They dont believe in small. In fact you cant even buy a shirt in small cuz they dont make it hehehe. We had another late night at the beach then caught the bus back to the hotel. There was an incident on the bus. Yes my first incident in LA. The woman driving the bus got into a fight with this drunk mexican guy. She was quite psycho that she stopped the bus. Threw him out of the bus and then went outside. The others were like dont get into a fight with him and the bus driving was like I just want to sort him out and yes she sorted him out all right. If i wasnt too scared I would have filmed the bloody thing.