DAY ONE
After months of planning and years of saving we’re finally on the other side of the world!
The plane trip over was smooth, Trace managed to sleep for couple of hours while Mike watched movies… He will eventually learn to sleep anywhere.
We made it from the airport car company where we picked up our Dodge Caliber and began to learn how to drive on the right… Mike does all the driving and Trace closes her eyes!
We walked down the Hollywood walk of fame and did an open bus tour around Hollywood and Beverly Hills. No stars were spotted – Disappointing.
In the afternoon we headed out to Santa Monica beach and got some dinner after miles of walking! Mike’s already developed “jandal blisters”.
Here we absorbed a carnival like atmosphere and watched some 4th July fireworks which were in LA (miles away) but were still huge!
Awwww
DAY TWO
After discovering the 5th July was a “mondayised” holiday we made the call to go to Universal Studios as they had a VIP pass which skipped the queues but cost extra… Definitely worth it!! We had a max 5min queue all day.
This was all Trace’s idea… Mike just pulled it off better!
Some kiwi ingenuity - rubbish bin for a tripod
Off to Yosemite tomorrow… Hopefully Trace can open her eyes to see some scenery while Mike is driving.
3 comments:
Oh wow. Looks like you're having a great time. Michael I told you you would need good walking sandals!! Go and buy some - its good to know you're doing all that walking though... its the only way to really explore isn't it!! You both look well and happy. !... is it disney land tomorrow??Guess you're about to head off into death valley too ... bit worried about those temperatures in the 50s.... hope the rental car has good air conditioning! love from us here in boring old Ypuk xxx
Hey I thought I wrote a comment but it disappeared! damn. See if you can sort it and in the meantime I'll post comments on facebook. xxxx
When are you going to get on line and post some photos of New York!!! dying to hear fom you again... hope the flight to London tomorrow goes well. I see you will have to be at the airport very early so no doubt yo are already in bed asleep now :) xxxx to you both... Mum
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