“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

Monday 15 August 2011

They be grindin'

Hi everyone!

The past few days have been lots of fun. On Friday we went shopping (don't worry Mum I didn't spend too much) and then at night we went on a pub crawl with the hostel. We have had two other New Zealanders and an Australian in our room and we all went together with the other hostellers. We drank these massive ciders which pretty much came in mini yard glasses. Unfortunately my camera hadn't charged so I wasn't able to get any photos but they were insane!! SO MUCH GRINDING IN THE USA!!!! It's hilarious watching all the Americans dance to their hip hop music.

On Saturday we went to the Getty Museum which was designed by Richard Meier .. some dude who also designed architecture in Spain which I did a paper about so this was nerdily interesting to me. There was a Cuban photography exhibition and the original Che Guevara photograph was there - also nerdily interesting to me because of Spanish haha. The gardens are so pretty though - you look out over the entire LA city. Nicole and I managed to find our way through LA on the bus system to get to the Getty and then find our way back - luckily I had her or I would have ended up on the opposite side of town by getting on the wrong bus!! Such a small town girl haha.

Yesterday we went on a hike with another group from the hostel in the Santa Monica mountains. We were warned about rattlesnakes but unfortunately we didn't see any!! It was soooo hot. We were planning on going to the beach but when we got back to Santa Monica city it was actually quite cold there so we went looking through the shops again. Last night we met up with our hiking group from the hostel and went to a British pub for a drink then down to the pier to go on the rollercoaster and ferris wheel which was so much fun.

Today we are off to Anaheim for 2 days at Disneyland!!!!

Hope you are staying warm in the snow - I'm getting a good tan here ;)

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