LA Tour

Had one yesterday. It was pretty fricken cool. We went around a lot, Beverley Hills, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Chinatown (which was pretty much just one giant $2 shop). Its weird, it still just feels like I'm in New Zealand but I suppose the American will kick in once we start saying the pledge of allegience every morning.
Anyway, tour. Had a great guide. There was only 11 of us on the tour and so it was nice and small. I hung out with a nice lady from Florida when we were on Rodeo Drive. Man, that place is sooooo cool!  I only wish I could afford one thing on that street. It was cool to see all the designers stores and look in their windows. Apprantley the is a ool hotel around there that you go into and people wash your hands and spritz you with perfume but I didn't get that far, next time.
There isn't really a whole lot to say about the tour, the pictures say it all. I'll upload pictures once I get a proper computer and get to look at them better. But yeah, glad I did it. I'm keen to go back there one day, to places like Santa Monica, Beverley Hills and Hollywood with a friend and a car!
Will update FB when pictures are up.

Apprantley this is where BayWatch was filmed?

Rodeo Drive, this is just one of many amazing stores I saw and was too scared to go into

Kahu and I on Rodeo Drive

New York likes yellow.

For shizz. Yellow taxis, yellow traffic lights, yellow school bussew.

If you use yellow so much it doesnt stand out.

Geeeeez

San Diego Zoo

Its a pretty awesome place. We had to get up early, cos San Diego is a 2 hour drive, but it wasn't too bad. Amber hadn't seen the sea in over a year so she was excited about that haha. The GPS we had took us over a toll road which was lame, but oh wells. We had a mini stop to take photos of the sea lol.
Anyway, we eventually got to San Diego, parked up and headed in. Amber's mum had given her a voucher for money off our tickets, so that was cool. We headed towards the kiddies area first and the reptile house. Snakes are gross, officially. Anyhu, then we wandered round the kiddies area and found a Kea! It was cool, cos I had my Kahu the Kea toy, so we got some pictures of Kahu with the real Kea! The pictures are on Emma's camera, so I just have to wait to get them, be prepared for a picture post lol. A security guard came over and we were leaning over the fence holding Kahu up to the cage etc and this guy was laughing at us and encouraging us. The real Kea totally attacked Kahu's foot and tried to pull him into the cage too. Lols.
Then we headed out and around a bit, got some lunch and decided to go on the half hour bus trip round the zoo. We saw the new baby giraffe - less than a week old! The zoo is huuuuuuuuge! We saw some cool things, gorillas, orang-utans, chimps and so many spider monkeys and birds. The koalas in San Diego smell just as bad as the Koalas in Aussie lol. The hippos were fun.
Managed to spy a polar bear too, first one ever, which was cool. So many firsts really, gorillas, orang-utans, GIANT PANDAS!!!!!! That is the whole reason we went to the zoo was to see the pandas. OMG they were soooo cute and fun. We got there at a good time go watch one of them in the hammock eating some bamboo, which was awesomeeeeee. Naw the pandas were so cute. Kahu had fun with some stuffed pandas too, again, pictures to come.
Just general zooness went on, fun though. We caught the skyfari back over the zoo to the start and I wanted to go to the Kiwi trail,so we wandered over. The Aussie outback section is getting remodelled and so it was meant to be round there. We couldn't find it, so I went and asked a keeper, and he was all "It will open with the outback section" and so I was all "but NZ and Aussie are different countries...." and Amber and Emma found it rather amusing.
Anyway, after that we went gift shopping and I was annoyed that I couldn't buy what I wanted cos I have noooo room left in my luggage. But managed to pick up a small panda shotglass. They had so much koala merchandise too which made me lol.
Ahhhhh, now, anyways, gotta go now, app HP 7.2 is on TV!
CATCH YA LATER

Baby Fresh Giraffe



PANDA PANDA PANDA



Stopping for a quick look at the sea

ZOMG PANDA

First impressions of America

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• There are US flags EVERYWHERE.  I was yelling out "flag" everytime I saw one on the way to San Diego, and there were lots.

• When people don't see the sea for a year, they get rally excited about it. Personally can't contemplate not seeing the sea for a year
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• Yellow school busses exist. As does Macys, JCPenneys, IKea, Taco Bell and In and Out burger.
• America is behind NZ and still has Shell petrol stations.....lol
• Squirrels are cute.

That is all for now

LA Baby

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.

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!

Feet in sand an Venice Beach

Me, Amber (Blonde) and Emma (Brown)

Here we are!

Mermaid making

Creepy as boardwalk

OOOOHHHH a sign

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!!

made it to la

its 9.30pm local time, im exhausted. been out to venice beach which has lol.
bed.
now.

last night n NZ

feels kinda surreal, will be interesting to see what happens from here on out!

go you spacebar, go!