December 2010
23 posts
Day 24 & 25 - Citadel/Back in SD :)
Day 24 (28/12/2010) - Woke up and it was around noon LOL not much to eat at home - had a GRAPPLE. yes you saw right, a grape-smelling/somewhat-flavoured, crisp apple.. who would have thought injecting grape flavours into an apple would taste so good:) In the arvo we went to Citadel Outlets and it was about a 30-40 minute drive from Redondo Beach - it was an outdoor mall/outlet, luckily the...
Day 23 - Universal Studios
Happy 19th Birthday to CHRISTINE!!! :) <3 hope you have had an amazing day!!
Day 23 (28/12/2010) - Woke up kinda early today to go to Universal Studios!! Thankfully it was a sunny day :) Saw the Universal Studios globe and i so happened to take a picture of it with Australia in the centre :D Even though we went early - we got there around 10am the line to purchase tickets was hella long and i...
Day 22 - Boxing Day?
Day 22 (26/12/2010) - So this morning i found out Americans don’t celebrate Boxing Dau like us Aussies do, therefore no boxing day sales like back at home would of had lol! Instead i went to the Santa Monica Pier - the beach is reallly nice here, even though it was a little cold the breeze was refreshing There was a marketplace and some foodstores heree - pretty interesting.. also a mini...
Day 21 - Christmas Day :)
Day 21 (25/12/2010) - Happy Holidays everyone :) Hope you enjoyed precious time with fambam and friends, i miss you guys!!
Opened presents this morning, one of them being an awesome pillow pet! my dailybooth picture for today :) After cleaning up wrapping paper, boxes and all that stuff we left for breakfast - yumcha in downtown chinatown, LA :) on the way there
the Staples Centre was on the...
Day 20 - Christmas Eve :)
Merry belated Christmas to everyone :)
Day 20 (24/12/2010) - Not many people know this.. but i dont like eating anything sweet for breakfast. thats kinda weird huh? yeah, so guess what i had this morning - krispy kremes haha how unhealthy :l but thet looked pretty tempting and i hadnt had one for ages lol and omg this juice is sooo good!
Spent the morning at home just on msn and tumblr :)...
Day 19 - HI :)
Day 19 (23/12/2010) - OMG IT WAS SUNNY TODAY!! WOOHOO so we went for a stroll out to the South Bay Galleria shopping centre lol its the closest one to where i’m currently staying in Redondo Beach :D
Had chick fil a for lunch :P yummeh This is like the weirdest thing.. Razzles - its like a lolly and then after you chew it for a bit it turn into this flavourless gum
On the way home the sky...
Day 18 - still rainy in LA..
Day 18 (22/12/2010) - Slept in today and woke up to more rain -_- so i didnt go out today.. just bummed at home, watched more hulu - some burn notice, family guy, simpsons etc haha
My uncle bought us fried chicken - super crispy :P Got some icecream after lunch :)
To all those reading this - thanks for doing so lol <3 miss all of you!! Here is my dailybooth picture for today since i have...
Day 16 (20/12/2010) - Today i woke up to rainy and windy LA weather - this was about 11am-12pm :l
Felt like ice cream for breakfast, its pretty much good in any weather - Ben and Jerrys strawberry cheesecake flavour :P
Headed to South Bay Galleria for a bit - this is the shopping centre like a 3 minute drive from where i’m staying - so rainy but we still went out haha
Then headed...
Day 15 - South Coast Plaza
Day 15 (19/12/2010) - Had bacon and eggs for breakfast today :) so good!! Went to the South Coast Plaza afterwards and went to Nordstrom rack and got Steve Madden flats :) the department store was crowded with people and it was flooded with clothes, shoes and whatnot :l
After we got Jamba Juice and i tried the ‘Peach Pleasure’ - tastes like Boost Juice but alot smoother :P YUMMY -...
Day 14 - Supermarkets!
Day 14 (18/12/2010) - Slept in this morning because the past few days i had to wake up like super duper early! Went on youtube for a bit this morning and was catching up with friends on msn :)
For lunch i had an In N Out Burger for the very first time - :P yummy
Went to all these supermarkets afterwards; World Market which had like all Christmasy stuff, this Japanese market - Marukai, a korean...
Day 13 - Back in LA!
Day 13 (17/12/2010) - So i had to wake up at like 4am today - went to Hearst Castle and walked around and saw a lot of antique stuff - quite pretty and was decorated with Christmasy stuff :)
Indoor pool in the castle
Got some Starbucks - Peppermint Mocha :P
After that we went to Slovang which is apparently like the Denmark of California
Ate at Viking Garden for lunch :)
On the...
Day 12 - San Francisco/ San Jose
Day 12 (16/12/2010) - OK. so i should start documenting from the beginning of the day to the very end but change of plans - im starting from the end cos i cant wait for you guys to see who i met today. We got dropped off at Milpitas Plaza for dinner after a tour around San Francisco today, i went inside this supermarket/restaurant to get a drink and i saw Joey Diamond. YES, THE JOEY DIAMOND :) i...
Day 11 - I'm in San Jose!
Day 11 (16/12/2010) - Had to wake up at 6am this morning because we had to be at Monterey Park at by 8am for a 2-3 night/day tour to San Francisco. I was sitting near the back of the coach and i got a whole two seater to myself - how AWESOME!
There was alot of pastures and winery fields along the way - land in the US is so spaced out unlike Sydney where everything is packed together - you can...
Day 10 - Back in Redondo Beach
Day 10 (14/12/2010) - Didn’t blog yesterday - but on Tuesday morning i left San Diego - the neighbourhood is so nice, i wouldn’t mind living there :) My cousins live up in the mountainy/cliffy parts of SD - the scenery is so amazing here. View from the frontage my cousins place :)
My aunt drove us back down to Redondo Beach - me and my little brother in the car (so bored - like a 2...
Day 9 - SD!
Day 9 (13/12/2010) - Today i went to the Fashion Valley Centre in San Diego - its one of those outdoor shopping malls, very pretty! (By the way.. the photos are kinda dodgy and blurred. I took them with my normal camera but then my memory stick reader doesnt read properly anymore so i took a picture of the picture on my mac, how lame!)
Ate at Rubio’s Baja Grill - famous for their fish...
Day 8 - San Diego Zoo
Day 8 (12/12/2010) - Today i had homemade pho for breakfast :o /drools
Afterwards we left for the zoo and it was only about 15 minutes away :D We got to San Diego Zoo and ZOMG it was literally a safari - it was a trek getting around places but worth it because there was heaps or amazing things to see
Random Peacock roaming around
Timberwolf
There was this bridge and two fountains on...
Day 7 - I'm in San Diego :o
Day 7 (12/12/2012) - Today marks one week since i’ve been in California! This morning my uncle drove us from Redondo Beach to San Diego, where my cousin Helen lives :) Went to eat asian food once again for brekky lol and then went to this outdoors museum - the USS Midway (its like an aircraft carrier), so awesome! (Thanks Uncle John for the pics!)
:D LOL
Some of the San Diego skyline...
Day 6 - sometimes technology irks me :(
Day 6 (10/12/2010) - Had nothing planned for today, so i ended up getting my nails done at this nail place like 2 minutes away from the house :) After that, i got a this cranberry ice tea drink for 99c, so yummy!
When i came home i watched some vampire diaries reruns on hulu, its like free streaming in the U.S. awesome (nts: watch S02E11) and whilst doing that i was just chatting on msn and...
Day 4 & 5
Day 4 (8/12/2010) - Walked out to the local mall today and had lunch there. OMG there was this candy store and i bought these things called jolly ranchers.. the blueberry flavour is the best lol :P
The sun was also setting on the way home so i decided to take a picture of it :) so purdy hahah
Day 5 (9/12/2010) - In the morning i walked to the coin laundry - its like 75c to dry a batch of...
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Day 3
Day 3 (07/12/2010) - This morning i went for a walk since it was such a nice day :) so sunny in California, and its meant to be winter too lol! yeah when i got back home i went to the local shopping centre, the South Bay Galleria, got some clothes :D I went to eat lunch and had Chick-Fil-A for the very first time /drools. The fries aren’t like normally shaped fries, they’re like...
first couple of days in cali!
Day 1 (05/12/2010) - Plane arrived like an hour early at LAX and i thought going through customs was going to be ridiculously time consuming with all the controversy with the TSA but it was so quick, like it took us about 10 mins to get out of the airport, how awesome :)!! My uncle took us to yumcha for breakfast at Monterey Park, its like the sydney chinatown equivalent LOL so cool, i also drank...