So today I mingled with the rich and famous of Los Angeles, and what a day, we got up at 5 to catch the first train down there, which was close to being mission impossible (ha, we still have careers but Tom doesn’t, read the news if you don’t understand!) for us but we managed it and we got there ‘on-time’ after a long run to the station to catch it. So the first thing is trains are different here compared to practically any other country, they move at the same speed I run, which isn’t that fast but I’m working on it! So it took close to 3 hours to get there, and our weird and crazy day started with the dining car cashier singing songs about ‘what a beautiful morning to be travelling on a train…traa la la’ so it was really entertaining, I’m telling you the people I saw today were even stranger and more mentally unstable that the ones lurking in the Santa Barbara streets! So after the train ride through the desert of California, yup it’s pretty much desert! So after navigating the LA Metro, ye they have one I never knew, we got to the famous Hollywood and Vine St, and for the next 10 blocks our heads were fixed on the ground looking for the next star on the Walk of Fame, so we got to see all the famous peoples names on the streets, and other cool things like El Capitan and the Chinese Theatre, and the Kodak Theatre where the Oscars are, so if you have no clue what all those were then either just go aaahh, or get a guidebook and you’ll see how cool it is, these places are full of Elvis/Spiderman/Halloween/Hulk people, so it’s pretty funny!! Speaking of Guidebooks I decided it would be better to have a torn book so it looked like I was a veteran at the whole LA scene, so we ended up standing on the book and messing it up a bit, so hey we became veterans at finding our way, which usually mean’s we just asked around, think we asked close to 20 people for directions during the day! Then we made our way to Beverly Hills, and wow, now that’s a neighbourhood; if there’s one place to have a house there then this is it! So we ‘blended’ in with all the hillbillies, and got lost in the back streets before finding our way to Rodeo Dr., which is kind of overrated and full of shop people staring you down thinking why we were even there. So after the ‘blending’ got boring we went to Downtown LA, which mean’s Chinatown, this place rocks, and it got me even more excited for the Asia travels, the place was awesome, but kind of disturbing too, some of the food was sick but it was cool, and then we also roamed the little communities of Mexico and Little Tokyo. So ye, we did a lot in one day, and we’ve figured we have to do it again sometime, well after our next adventure to San Francisco. LA isn’t like what you would expect in movies though, it’s actually really dirty, we came back with our feet black, looked like diseased things, think that’s the reason people were staring at us so weirdly on the train, well actually everywhere, so now I’m actually falling asleep writing this so I better be off to bed, won’t survive at work tomorrow otherwise, so I’ll write again soon when I’m not being drawn in by the sleep police, so hope everyone is good, and I’ll write again soon!