It was of course beginners look at it became more difficult after then, but it was great fun. We are going to try again tomorrow and I will try to get some photos.
Body boarding
Thursday 1st August - today we went shopping at Pismo shopping outlet, whilst we waited for the sun to burn through the sea mist. Afterwards e walked along the beach towards the centre of Pismo Beach. Samantha and I thought it would be a good idea to try body boarding (surfing without standing up). We bought a pair of body boards on the sea front and headed into the sea. It was cold at first but then we got used to it. We waded out to about waist deep and at he sight of a big wave we turned and faced the shore and jumped onto our boards. It was fantastic, Samantha and I both surfed the wave all of the way to the shore, in fact I grounded much like a beached whale!
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.
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!
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.
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