Today we left Santa Monica to transfer to Anaheim. Drive was approx 30 mins as roads quiet due to it being labour day. When we arrived we had to wait 2.5 hrs before we could check in so the subway and burger place across the road seemed like a good first stop. I had fried zucchini which tasted more like oil than anything else. We then decided would go for a walk to the supermarket to get some salad and snacks for tea as we were over greasy food. The map showed it...

Today is our last day in Santa Monica as tomorrow we are off to Anaheim. We started another hot day by exploring the area and we must admit it is pretty awesome here. So many shops and restaurants right next to the beach. We went down to the end of the pier which is the official end of route 66. We then went to bubba gump shrimp for lunch. I had the forest gump feast which was amazing but would feed 4 people. Even paul's salad would feed a family. We now have wor...

Today we started early as we were booked in for a day in LA tour. The rastabus picked us up at the hotel which was a reggae themed tour bus. Our tour guide Brian was what seemed to be a hippy stoner but turned out to be extremely funny and had a wealth of knowledge. Our tour started in Malibu a lot of expensive beach houses and awesome beach we saw where mel gibson was arrested, lindsay lohan had a car accident and where brittney spears drinks .We then headed to...

We arrived in LA at 7am after a great flight with qantas apart from being woken up at 10.30pm aus time to eat breakfast....so wrong. LAX was a lot quieter than what we thought as launceston airport was a lot busier when we left. We boarded our shuttle with a Detroit driver who was so funny and provided much entertainment on our way. He enlightened us with the new trend of deep fried sticks of butter that people actually eat here ewwwww. Kids slept on our way to S...