The last two days have been spent with at least 100, 000 people watching fast cars race each other. It is so exciting to hear the motors and watch them streak down the track. You can feel the power of the cars in the grandstand. I got to see a crash where the whole body of the "funny car" flew up into the air and the car caught on fire. Luckily the drivers wear full fire proof suits and he was able to get out unharmed and race again later in the day. I learnt a...

Today we left Huntington Beach and whilst waiting to check in to our new room in Anaheim we decided to go for a drive up the coast. We arrived in Santa Monica which has a pier that has a fun park on it with a ferris wheel, small roller coaster and souvenir shops. The most interesting thing is that here is where the Route 66 drive across the country starts or finishes. Route 66 has Santa Monica at one end and Chicago at the other. This drive is very famous and s...

Making The Most Of A Rainy Day We awoke to a drizzly day and decided to head out to the Paul Getty Center Museum. Where we wanted to go and GPS wanted to lead us were two different things. The GPS kept trying to take us to a back road to the center that was closed with a huge 2m high fence. After getting lost we ended up driving through Bel Air and Beverly Hills. I had my eyes wide open looking for famous people. We ended up at Rodeo Drive, where we parked and...

Day 1 I was up early to catch the flight from Brisbane to Los Angeles. I saw some great sand sculptures at the airport while I was waiting for the flight to board. Have a look at the photos I posted of them. I flew with Virgin Australia and the flight was 12.5 hours long. We had to wait for forty minutes past the original boarding time as apparently the flight was going to be quick and we couldn't land in Los Angeles until 6am. Therefore they made us wait lon...

Day 2 (reliving yesterday) Wed 7th Nov I spent today having lots of stressful moments as I was the passenger in a hire car. Being on the other side of the road is rather nerve wracking. It feels like you go the wrong way around round abouts, then turn left across traffic and turn right sharply into the street you are going in to. I kept going to the wrong side of the car to get in and finally by the end of the day started to feel ok with the road rules over here...