Hi... So it's been three days since the last post and a lot seems to have happened. Firstly our hostel offers free breakfast and coffee which actually means you sit in the restaurant and they give you a blueberry muffin for free and black coffee (which i've taken a liking too) and a menu from which you can purchase actual breakfast items, which is pretty sneaky of them. Anyway a muffin and coffee has become my morning sustenance and we have big lunches out and about.
On our second day here we chilled out by the pool in the morning. It was super sunny and when it is sunny it's really hot. Funny weather patterns here. It's overcast every morning and evening and then it's kind of touch and go whether it clears up and gets really hot or stays kind of cool and the nights are uniformly cold, like Brisbane winter cold. So after sitting by the pool and having a swim in the heated pool (nice!) we headed out. A chatty lady t the bus stop redirected us from catching a bus into the dodgy downtown area and toward Hollywood Blvd. The bus took about an hour and was full of colourful characters.
We got off in Hollywood pretty much across the street from the Chinese theatre and Kodak theatre, home of the Oscars. The street is really kool and such a contrast to the ghetto area we're staying in. We had a big walk up past Ripley's Odditorium and the Rosevelt Hotel. We popped in this little Mexican place and had burritos, excellent. I also bought my first souvenir; a rockin' Spidey cap to add to my cap collection. We spent a while walking along the boulevard looking at the stars on the sidewalk. Found Mickey and Gypsy Rose Lee and took an inappropriate photo of someone else kneeling next to MIchael Jacksons star turned shrine. Looked at some stars hand prints and wondered who this 'Sid' guy is they all mention. Headed home and chilled in the room with these massive 'flamin' hot' Cheetos, that were delicious!
Our second day at the parks was a little tamer, we slept in late and then rented out a car. This made getting to and from the park soo much easier. The guy we rented it from told us a guy got shot in our neighbourhood last night. Scary. So we drove down the interstate and arrived at Downtown Disney. Which is this huge shopping complex suppose to cater for the hundreds of hotels in the area. It super clean and everything is massive and flashy and sometimes Disney themed. We hit up California Adventure, went on a bunch of rides, watched a Pixar parade. There was this Toy Story float with woody and Jesse and the pig, dinosaur and Slinky. The impressive part of this was a guy and a girl doing giants around a bar on either side of the float. Giants being a technical term for swinging in circles all the way round the bar; and they were doing these constantly for like the whole parade, amazing! We at
I think the most exciting part of the last two days was buying a pair of big, white, four fingered, cartoon character gloves. I've wanted these since i went when i was 6 so it was kind of a big deal!
After that we drove home and had a reasonably early night. The hostel is pretty cosy and we've had some good chats with some peeps. We even went for a walk with a guy called Kyle, our South African friend, for late night fast food. But it turns out even in America they won't serve you if you try to walk through the drive through, no fair. That's all for now. I think we're hitting up Venice Beach in the car tomorrow!
Peace and Love
Josh and Justin...
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