L.A. day 2

On the second day we decided to chill out as much as we could so we went to Santa Monica beach. We wanted to savour the moment as much as we could since we wouldn't have the opportunity to go to a beach in sunshine in a long time after the trip. We started by having breakfast by one of the cafés on the beach and then stayed still for an hour or so. When we felt like sunbathing was enough for today we walked along the beach towards Venice. Here we stumbled upon a bunch of freaks filming a TV-show called... you guessed it, Freakshow. There were men and women covered in piercings and colourful hair as well as some people claiming to be magicians. We stopped by the crowd to have a look at the show but nothing much happened except for an unsuccessful magic trick that was just painful to watch. The skateboard park looked more interesting so we watched some skaters do their thing for a while before heading back to Santa Monica. We left our things in the car and headed for one of the restaurants on the pier. All in all a good day at the beach.

Los Angeles

Finally in L to the A and the last days of our trip are counted. I'm going to create one post for each day so the adventure doesn't end too abruptly. It almost feels like I'm still on this trip when I'm writing about it and I'm not quite ready to let it go just yet. So let us suck on this caramel (a saying translated directly from Swedish) for a little while longer. We stayed at another Holiday Inn this time, which felt okay since it was the last, close to LAX for practical reasons. It also turned out, as we discovered while walking to a nearby Mexican restaurant, that the Escape Campervan rental company (where we had to return our van on the last day) was just two blocks away from the hotel. Very convenient! On the first day Josh got up really early in order to get to the Chinese embassy and hopefully get his visa this time. He succeeded and came back just as I was gonna take a dip in the hotel pool. We decided to go for breakfast in Los Feliz instead so, after almost going mental at our GPS for not taking us on the least trafficked route, we arrived at a place called Home Restaurant that served really good breakfast and had lots of options. At the table next to us sat two older ladies talking about having a tequila shot (at 11 am) and one of them said she had a bottle in her car. They were completely serious and even asked the waiter for a shot, to which the waiter asked when he had taken their full order: "You weren't really serious about the shot were you?". One of the ladies replied that they were. Welcome to L.A!

The remaining part of the day was spent in one of the vintage stores (on my request) called Squaresville (but since I didn’t find anything it was a pretty short visit) before heading towards the closest Target to get ourselves some suitcases. Since L.A. is pretty big and it takes more than a while to get from A to B the clock had turned dinner time before we knew it so we headed back to the hotel to order pizza and watch the latest episode of Sons of Anarchy. A good day even though we didn’t do much, but when you’re in L.A. it’s almost impossible to have a bad day.