Day 6&7

I'm dead tired people.. I've forgotten what day it is.
Let me try and back track a little.. So we left Vegas and went on the biggest mission of my life driving to San Francisco. It took 9 hours. Nine long fucking boring, quiet hours. The scenery was beautiful though. The mountains. Beautiful.. then it got dark. I don't like driving here in the dark, stresses me out way too much!! - I have never been so stressed out before. When I get home I'm going to need a holiday just to relax from this.

Anyway, I finally made it into San Fran and over the very cool Golden Gate Bridge... which led to the very hilly streets. Now I'm not just talking hills.. I'm talking steep almost vertical hills. Driving up them was very scary, especially reaching the top of the street, you can only see the sky. Insane!!

So after getting lost and driving in circles we found our hostel called the Adelaide. It makes me feel a little less homesick. :P Although once i got settled in, all this anxiety took over me and I couldn't stop crying for at least an hour. All I wanted was to be at home, with Darcy and being here and not there just didn't make sense to me. I felt really bad. This feeling comes on (not as strong) at least once a day, but I'm trying.. I'm working through it. Darcy's helping me a lot. - And I don't care what anyone thinks about that. He is what makes me truly happy and being apart from him like this doesn't!!

The next morning I felt a lot better so Jess and I went about the town in search of Chine Town and Pier 39. China Town is just a much longer version of ours. It's good to say that I've now been there, but it was nothing special.

Walking to Pier 39 we found Little Italy which was beautiful!!!! The streets and all the houses/apartments were so picture-esque (?) Then it was onto the sea. I love looking out onto the water, the boats everywhere were great too. I'm not to fond of all the shops and restaurants here and they were everywhere here!! Besides that, I enjoyed myself.

This is all I have in me my lovelies.. I'm crashing.. Night. xx

Day 4&5

Ok so this is how the day started.

Got up early, packed all my things, returned linen, had breakfast, went on a trek to the car rental place lugging all, ALL (of my 3 bags) down Melrose Ave and up La Brea, (it took about an hour) make it to the rental place only for them to tell us that they lost, yeap lost the car we were to drive to Vegas.

NOT GOOD AT ALL... right??

...wrong!!!

"How do you feel about driving a black Mustang Convertible??"

"I'm sorry??"

That's right folks.. for no extra cost, I drove this baby all the way to Vegas!!!

But that was where my excitement ended... It was terrifying driving on the wrong side of the car and road.. Oh and the road rules, ridiculous!!! Did you know that you can turn right through a red light??? Well screw that!!! Honk your horn all you like bitches.. this Melbournian knows how to drive.

So 4 hours later and a few U-turns, we make it to the Best Western Hotel. And surprisingly it was pretty decent. Nice room, great beds, nice outdoor pool area... it looked good from my room.. way too cold for that!

Anyhoo... On we went to the strip. First stop MGM Grand. Guess what we had for dinner?? (a hot dog and a Maccas burger) Soooooo expensive were all the restaurants. I wan to slap the man who told me everything was cheap there!!! Ok so after our lavish meal, we got some drinks, I played Black Jack on a screen while sipper my terrible scotch and won $9.74 - YAY!! After that we were given free passes to a few clubs but because Jess didn't have proper I.D, they refused her. You see, she's allowed to gamble, drink, but not dance. Hmmm...

Just before we were about to head out to another casino, I spotted a Craps table with some men playing and was intrigued.. Long story short, they gave Jess and I a $5 chip each and I walked away with about $30 - woohoo!!

Cut to the next morning and Jess is throwing up over the rail of our hotel. Nice!!
That day was spent mostly in bed.. but that night we went to Pris Las Vegas. Oh la la... and The Belagio Hotel...I want to live there!!!!!!! - I won $12 - YES!!!

Oooo ooo oo.. I almost forgot. Did you know that petrol stations in Vegas have Pokie machines?? - This country is insane!!!

I could go on and on about all the crazy stuff here.. but i'll leave that for tomorrows post about today, Day 6.

xx

Day 3

Today it was freezing!! We got up early and went to a place called The Grove. It was a place to shop, eat and watch a movie American style which means over the top. It was insane. Beautiful, but like nothing you've seen before. The cinema complex was amazing, the seats were very comfy!! But then we discovered The American Girl Place. This shop is the craziest thing I've seen yet. It sells dolls. Clothes and excessaries for the dolls as well as matching clothes for the little girls who buy the dolls. This was all well and good, but then we found the counter where the dolls that had been bought, would get their hair done whilst sitting on little salon chairs. Jess and I were speechless!!i'll show you photos.

We watched Watchmen. Long ass movie, but good. Some parts were a little funny, as in over the top... Walking out of the movie, I was left with a monster of a headache that lasted 6 hours. I've taken my trusty neurofen plus and I'm about to head to bed.

My next post will be from Vegas.
Till then...

xx

Day 1&2

Flying just isn't for me. Mid way on my flight I started having a panic attack. I'd never had a full blown one before, but this one was scary.. and the thought of having to fly all the way home brings on another one!!

Other than being in the air, Quantas was amazing!! They helped me out so much but not only that, FREE drinks, comfy pillows, warm blanky and half decent food. The seats and movie selection wasn't bad either.

Ok so after the worst experience of my life, Jess (who slept the whole way on the plane) and I finally land in LA.
It's day 2 and the LA that we've seen hasn't been that great. We're staying on Melrose Ave. @ the Orbit Hostel. It's not so bad, except that I have to pay for the interent!! (not happy)

Every second shop is a tattoo place and every other one is a psychic.. it's crazy!! The driving is crazy, the people seem to be allowed to turn right at a red light, talk on phones and smoke weed while driving... CRAZY I tell you!! Yesterday we found a really good pizza place with a really cool guy working there.. (Eva, Annika - you ladies would LOVE him) his name is Matt. We hung out with him and his mates who took us out at night. This is when I spotted James Lafferty (One Tree Hill), he was alone and saw me staring for quite a while.. I was too shy to say hi, so now he thinks he has a new stalker! :p (photos)

Today, Jess and I booked to hire a car on Monday to drive to Vegas then San Fran and back to LA. From there we have to book a train through Texas to New Orleans. I'm so excited about our road trip, but also scared to death of the driving. Heh!

Tomorrow I want to go to Beverly Hills and stand in front of the Walsh house!! =D

xx