15/11/06 Skates, muscles and parking tickets

Due to no internet access and casinos and free booze we have managed to lag behind a couple of days so i will try to catch up a little. Im writing this whilst in Las Vegas after having an all you can eat buffett plus drink as much as you like champagne which means Simon has conked out for 10mins as his belly is full.

Anyway back to San Barbara
The Cabrillo Inn is my favourite place so far. If Simon had been willing to let me have the duvet i would have slept the whole night outside on the balcony. Simon did manage to wake me up at abuot 5.30 for the sunset (as i insisted on sleeping with the curtains and the patio windows open.) i managed to gaze at it for about 30 secs and then fell asleep.

Next the drive continues through malibu beach. We wer on the look out for Sharon Osborne and Arnie but no such look. To be honest i was a little disappointed in Malibu beach it didnt have that wow factor that i was expecting. We did however see a camera crew that was about to shut of the road we were driving on as the view was so cool. im sure we will see it in some film at some point.

Now one of the main things on my to do list was to roller skate along a beach in America and thats exactly what this day was about for me. I didnt really care where it was, it just about doing it. So i did it on Santa monica beach/Venice Beach. If i must say i think i was really good :-) and Simon had to follow me carrying my handbag feeling very gay :-D.

We passed the old muscle beach which seems to have turned more into a circus/yoga beach where there was some impressive hula hooping and a really muscly women climbing up a big rope. This is when i insisted that we actually must go to the real muscle beach. So we did, and then parked on a perfectly normal road and then saw the real muscle beach and then got a parking ticket for $70. Damn. Apparently you cant park on a red kerb. Nobody told us that.

After that we decided to get to a hotel and this was our first real tastier of traffic. having driven down route 1 whereby you can be on a stretch of road with no traffic at all, this was our first real tastier of routes 4 lanes wide (ie 8 lanes) . Scary.

Had the best meal for me anyway of some mexican shrimp in sauce. It was like prawn curry, mmmm just my thing, just regreted the day after though. :-)