Santa Monica, Santa Barbara and Santa Claus

Hi All, well today we officially started our road trip by being on the road. We left Los Angeles this morning after scoffing ourselves on a buffet breakfast. We did a little tour of LA (Hollywood bowl and the Hollywood sign).


Here we see Mrs B at the Hollywood Bowl


And the Beaney Girls at the Hollywood Sign


We then had our first warning of dangerous animals (more to come I am sure!)


Now that we are on the move, we can start to look back at where we have been. Todays image shows a view back to Los Angeles, you can see the skyscrapers in the distance.

The funny part of the day was that we were heading to Santa Barbara and decided to call into Santa Monica for lunch on the way (which was lovely), although Victoria thought it was too much like Amity Island and she is still scared of Jaws! Mrs B particularly enjoyed Santa Monica because we found an English Pub where she gratefully accepted the English Hospitality by downing two pints of Storngbow. The beaney babes also enjoyed shopping in bloomingdales, victoria bought a bag so that she could get the designer carrier bag. (Go figure! - it must be a girl thing!) We then saw a sign for Santa Claus and all roared laughing (I guess you had to be there). We then had a lovely drive up route 101 to Santa Barbara, by which time the sun was setting. Hodge (Amateur Photographer) would have had a great time with shilloettes over the ocean - and no need for his extraordinary long arms.

We are now in a Hotel in Goleta, slghtly north of Santa Barbara and have sorted out the laptop so uploaded several posts tonight. Tomorrows plan is to spend some time in Santa Barbara before heading up the coast to St.Luis Obispo, where we hope to do another posting....

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