So you know you're in California when it's 29th Dec and you're playing frisbee (Stormer's frisbee!) on the beach at 11am! A pleasant but surreal start to our big adventure and our 1st time in America. Staying in Santa Monica has been perfect for us and is really peaceful and restful despite our ignorant fears that it would be all brashness and at an overwhelming hectic pace. We have been to the pier and found the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., I can't tell you how excited I was to find that and purchase my hat (complete with bottle opener in the peak - I kid you not!), a baseball and a "Stupid is as Stupid Does" licence plate..... It took a while not to feel like we were in a movie or had touched down somewhere
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