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and then there were 5! After the goodbye meal in LA me, Rhydian, Thea, Cathy and Steph started a mission to get to our hostel in Hollywood (we were out by LAX) so we nabbed a free transfer to the airport from the hotel trek drops you off at and then got an airport shuttle which took about an hour from there!
On our first day in Hollywood we went to universal studios we invited Matt along with us trekkers as he was staying in our dorm. We had a good laugh the simpsons ride was class and I dont think I have ever heard such laughter from Thea the whole way through it! We also did a studio tram tour which went down... wait for it... Wisteria Lane!!!!!!!!!! The desperate housewives set!!! I was so excited I think I set a new record of 50 pics in 1 min! Then we drove round the set of physco and they had an actor there pretending to dump a dead body and then spot us... so he ran at me with his knife not once but twice lol scary stuff! Hayley arrive a couple of hours later it was cool to see her - she was staying quite far away from our hostel near disneyland. We all looked super cool at universal studios because it was raining and we had lots of waterproof gear on! Oh I also loved the Jurrassic Park ride :) it was a childhood obsession of mine! We managed to blag free tickets to a sitcom recording - it was called Rita Rocks and it was the last in the series so it was a good atmosphere, we got absoutley soaked trying to get there! That evening we went to the cinema - we ended up going for the 11.30 show and I fell asleep in the movie haha it was actually a good film from what I saw of it! The Hollywood audiances cheer at every big line and boo and everything it was quite funny.
The next day Me, Rids, Cath, Hayley and Matt did a cheesy hollywood homes tour haha I took so many photos and Steph said I would never remember it and she is right I dont know whos is who! Still it was a good way to see a bit more of the area and you really wont beieve some of the houses! I do remember being unimpressed with Matt Leblanc's house actually haha. Bill Cosby's has got some random statues everywhere too! Jim Carrey's was quirky as you would imagine! We saw the house that Britney was taken out of when she was sectioned... we also saw the toilet George Michael got arrested in hehe so much scandal in LA! We also drove down Rodeo Drive which is poshhhhhh! Hayley wandered off later that day to get her tatoo done and then come back to our hostel for some goodbye drinks as everyone was leaving me the next day :( was quite an entertaining night because I had never seen Rids drunk lol! Thea's friend from Norway had arrived that day too for their onward travels she was really nice. The next morning we had a few hours before the girls and rids were off so we all did various things around the Hollywood Blvd - me and Rids headed off early as his bus to san fran was at 12 and we went to the chinese theatre then met Cathy for a pancake lol! Then we waved him off bye bye Rids!! The rest of the day me and Cath bumed about not getting much done lol then I had the horrible task of waving all the girls off to Figi was very sad was very close to Cath and Thea by the end of trek :( still I get to speak to them and hear about their travels on fb all the time so thats cool! Im sure i will be heading to Ireland soon to catch up with Cath and Steph! We were lucky to have such a nice group and there are loads of people I really liked and will keep in touch with!
Then there was me.... alone after a month haha I was feeling a bit sorry for myself that day haha, till I rememberd that Steph had introuduced me to a girl she met in our hostel called Sarah who was also from NOrthern Ireland! So Matt ,me and two new guys in our room headed up to comedy night in our hostel which cheered me up cos it was quite funny and then me and Sarah made plans to go Jay Leno the next day as I got free tickets from universal studios :)
So off to Jay Leno we went!! It was a really good day, Sarah is really cool and was travelling with John, James and Fabian who were great too and I stuck with them for the next week or so. Heidi and Spencer from the Hills were guests of Jay Leno and I love that show! (hate them though because they are baddies!) they look like barbie and ken haha! Me and Sarah had been umming and arring all day about whether to do the hostel limo tour that evening and perhaps we shouldnt have given all our experieinces of it(more on that) but we went for it and got lots of free champagne... everyone was cool on the tour and we went to a bar that was in sex and the city when Miranda rides the bucking bronco haha! Sarah fell out the limo at this point and totally messed her ankle up!! But proceeded to drink and ignore it haha... the rest of that evening stays between me sarah, james and john who will not talk about anything beyond this point sorry! I dont think we will be showing our face in that hostel again!
So the next day we 'fled' Hollywood and I have some cracking pics of us at the bus station all feeling sorry for ourselves... greyhound experiences in USA arent the same as OZ they are full of dodgy smelly people... I nearly vomitted! I was a nice shade of green until I fell asleep! So then we rocked up at USA Hostel San Diego! We had some fun times in San Diego but also me and Sarah did lots of wandering around doing nothing and gossiping! We went cinema, ate bad food and had the best ice cream in the history of the world and lots more haha! We had a day in the park too in which we basically walked the whole of San Diego. We also went to San Diego old town on Valentines Day and had a mexican meal with us and two guys from James and John's room with free champers! We had a few cool nights in the hostel common room too lots of funny people staying there and lots of banter and drinking games with Alaskans haha. We met some serious characters in there and two of our least faves was some boy from the Military that tried to kill John lol and a divorcee that had spent the night before on the streets with the tramps across the road... he kept waving to them out the window and he was very drunk! James had his life story the day before at 9am... apparently he was drinking red wine for breakfast! Anyway me and James shared lots of politically incorrect jokes that evening that we wont repeat online lol! On my last day with everyone me Sarah and Arok from Alaska went for Thai food and then had some drinks in the hostel and lots of hugs... and banter with random Italians! Then I got a cab to the airport and headed Miami bound to see Natalie and my last week of my big trip!
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