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LA and San Diego
We arrived in LA on Sunday night and were pretty tired from a weekend of partying in Las Vegas so just checked into our hostel and got some dinner in a Thai/Asian restaurant. I had soup noodles which I love so that was a nice home comfort for me and a welcome relief from massive portions of fried food covered in cheese which seems to be all that American restaurants have to offer!! The next day we caught a bus over to see Hollywood, a lot of people warned me that it's not as glam as you would expect and they were right! We had an especially bad first impression when we got off the bus and a weird little man with a hunchback handed me a flyer for a bus tour, I folded it up and put it in my bag then noticed he was following us down the street, he marched back over and asked if we were doing the tour or not, oddy said no and he went crazy at us for taking the flyer if we weren't doing the tour and demanded it back!! We carried on walking and another guy asked the same question, we said no again and he shouted 'Mauricio was right about you!' In a very American accent which made us laugh all day! Very weird way to try and get customers...only in Hollywood! We wandered around Rodeo drive and saw the hotel where pretty woman was filmed, got some pictures of the Hollywood sign and did the walk of fame then had lunch in Hooters - very American! We then headed back to Santa Monica and watched the sunset on the beach.
On Tuesday we hired a car and Nikki drove us to San Diego - we had a white Toyota Corolla (not quite the convertible Mustang we hoped for!) On the way we stopped at a real American diner for breakfast, Denny's Diner! It was delicious but it was pretty much a 3 course breakfast and my first experience of pancakes with bacon and syrup all together!! (heart attack on a plate!) we also stopped at Laguna beach which was beautiful. We had a whistle stop tour of San Diego which is a lovely city then headed back to LA for our flight to Fiji that evening!
So after doing tonnes of sight seeing and travelling we are looking forward to lying on a beach for a week in Fiji!
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