Goodbye Califoria

So the last journey. Actually the 4 days made a good stay before flying home. Just time left to pack our bags and get to the airport now.

A brilliant time had, time to go home.

Friday night

Out on the town for our last night. Went to Rage for happy hour. Weird as at 10:30 they opened the dance floor and within 1 min everyone was dancing like a maniac. If that was England it would take at least 5 pints of standing by the wall to do that!

Pretty good night out - the bars were really busy and fun :) Drank until the money ran out and wandered home.

Where all the lights are bright

Got the tube to downtown and had a wander around. Lots of gold and jewellery shops.

To be honest first impressions are that of a run down, not particularly nice, characterless and sprawling American city. We left it at that.

The Walk of Fame

I've seen all her movies and really love her work. I'm her biggest fan ever!

What do you mean she doesn't really exist?

Hollywood

Off to Hollywood. Got a car to drop us off at the Chinese Theatre. Pretty tacky really although it was improved since I was here before. Not that much though.

Blooming Good Time

Down to Bloomingdales in the morning. Yes! Still had sale on so bought LOADS :-) got pair of Converse for $18 - woo! The guy said that was the cheapest he'd ever sold a pair of shoes for!

Both happy with our purchases - at least we got something decent to wear tonight!

Santa Monica Boulevard

Finished the hike and then back down the PCH to LA. Got to the bottom of Santa Monica Boulevard and headed up to hotel on Sunset. OK so bad time to hit LA around rush hour: took us 2 hours to drive up it to West Hollywood! Argh! LA traffic is notorious but nothing we could do about it - not driving in LA no more it is a nightmare. So checked into hotel a bit frazzled but place is nice so headed out for the night. :)

Turns out Santa Monica Boulevard is the place where it's all at so took a walk back down for a few beers. The natives are friendly! :)