well, I made it! My friends left this morning so today I've just been hanging out in my hotel room, painting my nails and just doing stuff. Walked about 1k to the place where my tour leaves from tomorrow and sorted a ride from the hotel at 9am, yuck.
Anyway, so I arrived on Saturday. Flight wasn't too bad, a little bumpy in the middle of the night, but I managed to get a little sleep. Customs wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, I filled out the wrong form though and the guys were really nice about it and helped me out. Once I got outside, I found a bus that took me directly to my hotel for free = first tipping experience. Checked in all goods and stuff, had amazing shower (so happy about the fantastic water pressure) and eventually my friends Amber and Emma from Arizona showed up. They drove 7 hours to come meet me! We met online a few years ago, so it was cool to finally hang with them. We went and got taco bell which was an experience. The guy behind the counter was really helpful and so we eventually ordered some stuff.
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| Kahu look, we made it! |
Then we went on a bit of an Adventure. Firstly, we went to AT&T to get me a phone which was fun. Got an American phone and number - if you want it, just message me and I'll give it to ya. Then we headed out to Venice Beach which was an experience. Firstly, parking was a mish, then we had to walk about 10minutes to get to the beach. Nice beach it is too. It was a little too cold to swim, but we turned Emma into a sand mermaid which was fun. We just hung out on the beach for about 45 minutes, and then walked along the boardwalk which was scary. I didn't trust any of the food or anything, so we found this little Asian place for dinner, but turns out that food repeated on me quite a bit overnight, yuck!
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| Feet in sand an Venice Beach |
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| Me, Amber (Blonde) and Emma (Brown) |
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| Here we are! |
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| Mermaid making |
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| Creepy as boardwalk |
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| OOOOHHHH a sign |
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| I got really excited about this yellow school bus. Amber and Emma laughed at me. |
I typed most of this on my tablet, but it was getting annoying, so now I'm using the hotel computers which is costing me, but at least I can finish this!!
Yesterday we went to San Diego Zoo, but I'm going to put that in a separate post and hope that I can deal with my tablet by then!
So yeah, I'm here. Tomorrow I fly to NYC, woooO!!
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ReplyDeleteI LOVE reading about everything you're doing Charlie! I would like to have that Venice Beach sign turned int a postcard, thanks. Also, did you just admit you're scared of a BOARDWALK - surely that's a lot like being scared of a path over water and trout at Staglands? Think about it.
ReplyDeleteIt had nothing to do with boards though, so I was disapointed. But still, lol.
DeleteAhhh - wondered where you'd got to!
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