We travelled back in time arriving in LA from Fiji. LA is 20 hours behind Fiji and the flight was 10 hours, so we re-lived Monday afternoon again which was a bonus!
Our Airbnb studio apartment was situated just off Hollywood Boulevard (where the stars walk of fame is) which was a great base for us to get around. We jumped on a hop on hop off bus tour to give us an idea of the city, which is huge, everything is so spread out the bus route alone has 5 lines which take 2 hours each so we only managed the main ones!
Along our bus tour we stopped at Santa Monicia pier which reminded us of Brighton (with the exception of sand and the bright blue sky!) We spent a while in amazement at the outdoor gym equipment were real muscle types were swinging themselves from all sorts! Oh and it made Dean’s day to see a hot roller chic whizzing around! We also jumped off the bus at the ‘must do’ Rodeo Drive where we managed some window shopping at the excessively expensive shops!
We also spent a day at Universal Studios Hollywood which we absolutely loved. We weren’t really sure what to expect but we did so much. Universal is the biggest and oldest movie producer and has 400+ acres of land at the site. On the studio tour they took us out of the theme park and showed us around the amazing life size sets which included real streets, an aeroplane crash and the lakes where Jaws was filmed! We learnt some interesting facts about the stunts and tricks film makers use and loved meeting some of the famous characters including Shrek (just big kids at heart!)
Last must not least we went on a beautiful little sailing yacht where we boarded at Marina Del Rey for dinner followed by a sunset sailing trip overlooking Santa Monica and Venice Beach. It was stunning and it was here Dean popped the question. I said yes, of course!!!
Although LA was not as upmarket as we thought it would be it is a really cool place with lots happening, there is anything and everything on offer! Overall we loved our time here and struggled to resist the oversized American sweet treat temptations of cookies, cheesecake, milkshakes of all flavours (must be what dreams are made of) oh and ice cream of course!!!
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