Stayed at Hollywood International Hostel, "kitchen" consisted of microwave and plastic cutlery and plates. I messed up somewhat in that I didn't have enough money on me to pay for the full booking for both of us (Teresa was arriving in a few hours but they wouldn't wait) looking back I could have found a little cafe and sat round til she arrived at midnight but I was so exhausted and grumpy I just wanted a bed! So I paid for 2 nights which meant I broke our booking. When we went to pay for the rest of our week they had given our beds away and the hostel was full. So we moved to Hollywood Highland Hotel and Hostel just down the road. Lucky we checked because the guy told us there were no beds left in Hollywood and we would have to go to Venice beach or somewhere!! And we thought he was being nice and had checked out a few hostels for us, guess he just didn't want us to spread bad news about them! New hostel a bit better with the kitchen and access to breakfast.
So we did the usual touristy things:
Hollywood Walk of Fame
walked almost all the stars (as well as holywood boulevard also branch off down some side streets)
Downtown LA
Went shopping on Sunday, unfortunately not a lot open (???)
Santa Monica/Venice Beach
Awesome beach (in the sense it was huge) you had to walk a mile down the sand to the sea!!
Disneyland
Loads of fun at the original disneyland (also have 'california')
Love Space mountain - rollercoaster in the dark (lots of stars), and splash mountain
Universal Studios
Even more fun here super wet on the Jurrassic park ride and more roller coaster in the dark (and in reverse) on the Mummy ride, Waterworld brilliant and the behind the scenes guys loads of fun.
Shopping
New favorite shops, Wasteland, MNG and Target (bit of a selection there; expensive second hand stuff, flash stuff from Barcelona and better than warehouse cheap but good quality)
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