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...

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...