Made it!!!!

Hi everyone!

We have arrived in Santa Monica! Bags were not on our side during the trip - my hand luggage broke in Chch and then our bags got put on the flight after us but it all worked out so all good!!! Spent the first day just checking out some of Santa Monica - the pier and the shops! Dresses are $12 at H&M! But I've been a good girl and not bought any clothes yet... got to make it to North Carolina within the luggage weight limit haha. There are heaps of sidewalk attractions - a man holding a snake down by the pier, a guy with bunnies and one with parrots. You can pay them $1 and get a photo or they're tricksters and come and place them in your hands so you have to give them something.


It is so hot and humid here!!!!! A nice change from cold Dunedin and Invercargill haha. We are staying in a hostel so today we did a tour through Hollywood. It was very cool. Started out at Venice beach which is the one up from Santa Monica so checked out all the stalls and stuff there - lots of medicinal marijuana shops everywhere haha. Ended up buying some rap dudes music off him because he was a tricky one and signed it for me so I had to pay. My name is "Pipe" apparently. Philippa and Pip seem to be difficult names to grasp here!! We got to see some celeb's houses like Lindsay Lohan, Whoopi Goldberg, Adam Sandler, the Fresh Prince of Bel Air house etc. and then on to Rodeo Drive where I will shop when I am extremely rich and then onto the Hollywood walk of fame. Sooo many people and LA just stretches out for miles! We ended up at the Hollywood sign and it's a bit over rated. Seems so small compared to what you see on the movies.


Going to check out Universal studios and the getty museum later on in the week and off to Disneyland on Monday before heading over to NC.


Hope you are all good at home, let me know what's been going on :)

Lots of love,

Pipe xx