Am I in the right spot?
Hodges I did get you some frozen yogurt, but thought it would melt so I ate it! Sorry marra!
One for Hodge and Elvis
Gettup you two, I remember one of billies famous tales from your world tour, eating frozen yogurt from the shop next door to the cinema in Santa Barbara. We walked past such a set up yesterday so took a photo for you to bring back some memories for you.
Six flags theme park
Tuesday 30th July - today we went to six flags theme park in Valencia, it was a couple of hours drive away from Santa Barbara.
We left early in the morning so that we could get there for the gate opening at 10am. The park boasts the biggest, fastest and highest roller coasters in the world. Even Samantha was petrified on some of them. Needless to say, I bottled most of them, we'll someone needed to hold the camera. I did however ride the highest ride in the park and I was not even strapped in.
It was however the parks observation tower, 34 stories high!
The pictures above show the small roller coasters the girls rode on...
Pismo Beach
Wednesday 31st July - today we arrived at Pismo Beach, it is absolutely lovely and one of our favourite places ever. We upgraded our room so that we could have a sea view, it is well worth it, see the picture below.
Tonight we have been to AJ Spurs steakhouse, it was funky with loads of stuffed animals everywhere and photos of cowboys and Indians. We all had steak and salad and it was a right belly buster as you can see.
There were some big people in the restaurant, one was as big as Daggsy, just look at the size of this bloke!
I have spent most of the afternoon sunbathing and watching pelicans flying past the hotel and fishing in the sea. I will try to get you some action shots of pelicans - my favourite bird.
Santa Barbara
Sunday 28th July - Hi folks, Yesterday, we did the touristy trip around L A looking at all the stars homes, their are some palaces, It is a lot like Witherwack :-) we also went too downtown Hollywood to the Chinese theatre and the walk of fame. On one of the pictures below you can see the Hollywood sign.
Some silly sod has gone and messed up the concrete paving - bloody yobbo!
We then drove up the coast to Santa Barbara, it looks a lovely place and we are going to explore it today. Our hotel is lovely too, we have gone from having a Ron on the 19th floor in LA to a room on the ground floor overlooking the swimming pool (see below)
At night we headed into town and went along the wooden pier, from the end we could see dolphins jumping in and out of the water. We ate fish and chips and watched the sun go down before evading back to the hotel.
Los Angeles Hotel
Sunday 28th July - We are staying in the Universal Sheraton hotel in LA, we stayed here on our last trip and we had a great view from our window. When we arrived we were allocated a room on the 2nd floor but ask to be moved to a higher floor. The following day we were moved to a room on the 19th floor. You can see from the pictures below, it was well worth asking to move to a higher floor.
We the girls are almost ready now and we are heading out to The Saddleback Ranch for tea. Tomorrow we are planning an open top bus tour around the celeb areas of LA before driving up to Sant Barbara. Blog tomorrow...
In the slash zone!
Saturday 7th July - Absolutely clear blue sky today, which meant that by about 2pm today we were all cooked. There is nothing better for cooling down than by getting wet. The following picture shows the girls in the splash zone from Jurassic Park getting wet.
Samantha is a stick insect
And just to prove it we have taken a picture where you need to spot the difference.
The difference is Samantha is wearing sunglasses!
You are now entering the twilight zone...
Wednesday 24th July - Just after 8am yesterday we did the Tower of Terror, it is bloody awful, but a good laugh at the same time.
As you can see from this picture, we were petrified!
Universal Studios
Friday 26th July - Hi all, we have been to universal today and have a cracking picture of us all on the mummy ride. This afternoon there was about a million (I am not exagerating) Chinese people arrived at the park and it became very busy, so we headed for the hotel pool. We are heading out tonight to Hard Rock Cafe for some well earned nose bag!
We had a fab meal at Hard Rock Cafe, I thought it might be just a gimmick type restaurant where the food is no good, I could'nt have been more wrong - it was great. We also drank enough Bud (well Julieann did!) to get glasses to bring home.
Long beach
Thursday 25th July - We had a cool day yesterday at Long Beach, it happened to be that the the World Volleyball championships were taking place at one end of the beach. This gave Samantha and Victoria some good eye candy to observe! The sunburn is starting to take effect, my face is red and I have two white patches where my sunglasses have been. I look a bit like an inverted red and white Panda.
We then moved onto LA and we are now in the Sheraton Universal hotel near the Universal Theme Park. It was quite a drive, only about thirty miles but there was at time about 7 lanes of traffic going in each direction and it was very busy. I am driving this huge 4 wheel drive monster, about the size of a transit van and keeping it between the lines is an effort. In about 30 minutes I will be hurtling around underground tunnel in the tomb of a mummy on the Mummy ride. I better go and get some breakfast before I start.
Sorted the picture problem out, a few pics from long beach. Can you seethe tankers out in the bay.
The magic of Disney
Tuesday 23rd July - On our first morning, we woke up still in British summer time, about half five! And headed to the disney parks, a short shuttle bus away. The kids were hyper and well before 9am and before Dad was awake enough to know what he was doing we scooted across the empire on space mountain. And yes, Dad did scream like a girl!
Ride after ride we did Disney to death on Tuesday, in the park on opening at 8am and we left on the 11:45pm shuttle bus back to the hotel, absolutely knackered - this is supposed to be a holiday?
Here are a couple of pics of us on the buzz lightyear ride
And there off....
And there off....
Sunday 21st July, the cases are packed, the sun tan cream is in the bag, Dad has new sunglasses and the taxi is booked for 3:45am tomorrow.
See you on the other side.
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