Today we covered:
- Petsmart
- Avenue Womens Clothing
- Disney Outlet Store
- Fullerton Harley Davidson
- Citadel Outlet Mall (Nike, Rebok, Levis, Saks etc)
- Farmers Market
- Hollywood
- Petersens Motor Museum
We spent over an hour at the Harley shop ... Craig got some total bargains - about quarter of the price of parts back home.
The outlet mall was interesting, not the kind of bargains I was expecting - you really needed to have a good look around and spent quite a bit of time there digging through stuff.
Farmers Market was a wonderful experience. It is right in the city and its permanent markets selling all sorts of ethnic foods. YOu name it, you would have been able to find it there. I really REALLY wanted to try authentic bbq spare ribs. I found em - they were delish too *oink* they had icecream, donuts, chinese, japanese, italian, indonesian, malaysian, ethiopian, french etc etc as well as all the fresh fruit and vege stalls. All under cover and quite an array of LA souveniers etc also. Thats good ole LA, always someone ready to take your cash off you.
Ray drove us through some of the upmarket Hollywood homes - not the movie stars homes - that was a bit further away and we really werent that interested anyway. Our last port of call was Petersens Museum, only about 20 minutes drive from the airport and it was really fascinating. Not a huge museum, but it had lots of memorabilia from rockstars and car builders alike. It also has the biggest hotwheels display in the US (probably the world I suppose). We spent an hour walking around there, the displays were really clever and well done - bit more upmarket than Southwards here in Kapiti - but then not nearly as many cars.
Thankfully we'd purchased another bag a couple of days ago and when we got to the airport we spent 10 minutes cramming all our purchases into our bags. Our luggage was about 64kg!
After check in we popped into the bar called Route 66 and downed a few. Got talking to a man from Alabama who was on his way to Melbourne via Auckland. Helena had a very interesting conversation with him about farming ... he had a 170 acre farm with cattle but he didnt actually farm ... it was very weird ... or maybe she'd just had a few too many red wines?
The flight was an hour late leaving LA due to another connecting flight to it arriving late. Of course we shouldnt havent worried about rushing home ... Wellington was closed anyway!
So thats it ... thats the White Xmas Tour finished, finito, vammoosed, done. Cool huh? Since home we've printed off 360 photos and now just need to put them along with all the paper work into some kind of order.
