Hollywood!

Hello to anyone still bothering to read this!

I just read my last post & realised that I didn't actually finish telling the story of the mad off-road driving (was in a rush when writing it!). I forgot to say that we actually ended up driving 13 miles down this road - still continually expecting it to turn into a paved road, every corner we made we kept thinking "we must be nearly there" anyway after 13 miles & extremly worsening roads we see a fence shutting off the road to the visitor centre! Apparently closed for "Maintenance" so as you can imagine everyones faced dropped (I was still shaking! So sure we were going to topple over the cliff edge lol) we couldn't continue (god knows where it would go since our map was useless!). We thought it would be more sensible to turn around! 13 miles and another hours drive later we eventually made it back to paved roads! Thank god Mike was driving is all I can say he handled it VERY well, theres no way I could have done that! luckily we can look back & laugh (but certainly couldn't at the time!).

There were many more awesome times on the road trip but I won't bore you with the details on here. Anyway as the title suggests we are currently in sunny LA! Our first night we went on a tour with the hostel, wondered through the hollywood area & got fantastic view of the hollywood hills (& some stars houses and where they might hang out pointed out to us! although we didn't see any). The bar in our hostel then had a free comedy night so we went along to that... certainly needed a few beers to find it funny is all I can say! They were all upcoming comedians but it was a laugh! Today we went to the beach - YAY! Although I was only 'allowed' to sit for 15 mins on the actual beach since the others get "too bored", although there was plenty more to do in the area & we even ended up playing paddle tennis lol. We saw an amazing sunset on the beach (whilst eating take away pizza lol) but then had the joys of an hour and half journey to attempt to get back to the hostel lol.

Tomorrow we are going on another tour, this time to get as close as possible to the Hollywood sign (& hear lots of 'gossip' apparently). I believe Caroline wants to go see Batman at IMAX cinema tomorrow night so no dount we will all go, be nice to have a relaxing evening :)

Anyway better go, need to sleep since Caz/Dan will no doubt be waking me up at the lovely hour of 6:30am! Bye for now xx