Jet Setters.....part 1 LA

It may take me a couple of entries to get through all we have done and experienced in the past month! It certainly has been a busy time for us, we are so blessed to have been able to go on such a great holiday to both the USA & NZ. It certainly is nice to be home again though - we have missed our friends and family.

The 31st of May saw Cheyenne & I leaving Brisbane for LA where we met up with my ex's sister Kelly & her husband David & 2 kids, Cai & Breyton. Thankfully our flights went off without a hitch and we arrived a wee bit earlier than expected in LA - 7.30am Monday 31st May and somehow managed to find our way out of LAX airport and onto the right bus to take us to our hotel - don't laugh, it wouldn't be unlike me to take the bus that headed in the wrong direction!

Kelly & the boys were eagerly waiting for us to arrive at the Renaissance hotel, Hollywood and after some searching (and a mild heart attack on my behalf) the clerk FINALLY located our hotel booking which we had paid for up front on expedia (phew! I didn't fancy sleeping on the streets of LA).

We quickly checked out our hotel room before heading down to a cute dinner for an all american breakfast!

Here is Breyton, Cai, Chey, Kelly & Davey waiting for breakfast to arrive

After breakfast we found a double decker bus with an open top that did tours around the main streets of LA, showing you where famous people live, what hotels they own, famous night clubs etc etc. The tour was fantastic, or at least what I can remember of it was.... after a 13 hour flight where I had absolutely NO sleep, a full belly and a bit of warm sun...you can imagine how I was feeling! Kelly & David were sitting behind me laughing as they watched my head literally roll around as by body slowly shut down and I struggled to keep my eyes open! Chey on the other hand was way too amped up to even think about sleep.

So after the tour finished I took myself off for a sleep - after 1 solid hour sleep, I was ready to go again and decided to hunt Kelly out- I had no worries about where I might find her! In the shoe shop downstairs....this is where I made my first American purchase....yep! All 5 pairs of Sketchers shoes!! Seriously...$40.00 per pair of shoes is a bargin...especially as I spied one of the pairs I brought in LA in Myer for $119.00!

Monday night we decided to head to Dodges game! How much more American can you get! It was fantastic!! The crowd was awesome and considering it was just a regular Monday night, it was crazy to see how many people where in the stadium, it was pretty much full.

We couldn't watch the game without a massive foam finger!

We absolutely loved the game. We ate hot dogs, drank the biggest soda's you can imagine and embraced the atmosphere, singing along with the crowd as they chanted.

Tuesday we headed off to Universal Studios.

We had a great day here. It reminded me alot of Movie World and certainly wasn't as big as I expected it to be. In fact I would think it is smaller than Movie World. Chey & I lost the others when we all went into a 3D Shrek movie at the beginning of the day. Chey decided it was too scary and so we had to leave before it started. I would have thought we would find them again later in the day, but we didn't - still we had a nice time just hanging out together!

Wednesday we only had 1/2 a day to fill in before our transport arrived to take us to Vegas. Kelly & David had checked out the Farmers Markets when they first arrived in LA and thought they were so great, so we headed back there for the morning. They were fantastic and really it would have been nice to have had more time to cruize the shops.

I wanted to show you a picture of this shop that Chey fell in love with! She had seen the dolls advertised and desperately wanted to buy one. I forget what the name of the shop was but it was something like the All American Girl

Initially we thought they were fairly cheap and I said yes Chey could buy one as she had some spending money of her own....however we discovered that the prices we were looking at were not at all for the dolls...that was just their clothing! The dolls were double the price and more! So much to Chey's unhappiness we had to leave the dolls behind. The stores though were just amazing - they certainly know how to appeal to a little girls heart! Check these out....

This is the nursary for babies....Annaliese would absolutely LOVE this Heid, it is just beautiful and they have everything a new 'mummie' would want for their baby!

There is every choice type of doll available to appeal to every little girls hearts desire...dolls for the outdoor lover, complete with her own tree house or a campervan for your baby? There are bikes and dolls dressed ready to play a round of tennis, you can have a black babies or white babies, there are a range of clothing options, accessories, bedding, housing, you name it, they have it

There is even a holder in the customer toilets for you to hang your baby while you go about your business....

Still more to come.....Vegas baby!