Blogs from California, United States, North America - page 1123

Its halloween night and im sitting on the internet in Loris parents house and i keep getting interrupted with all the neighbourhood kids coming to the door and chiming in unison "trick or treat" some of them are cute and remember their manners but some of them are just plain monsters! (literally) i started off just offering the bowl thats pilled high with chocolates and popcorn but the kids were grabbiing handfuls and i started to fear that there would be none left for me!! Lori suggested that i just hand out one candy to each kid and thats been working much better. Everytime i answer the door i also get a candy so its all working out fine! Its a bit of a fight with the dog, Lulu everytime the doorbell goes though. She gets ... read more

Greetings friends, It appears that I repeated myself on the last two blogs that I wrote. (Be it I may have been the only person to notice I went on about Lake Taupo and the Tongario crossing twice, but still!) THIS was an uncharacteristic error and I aim to not repeat this this again. hehe - enough of that old pony... My travels continue into the Islands of Fiji, formerly of British Crown sovereignty and surely the furthest point from Britain within the old Empire? hmmm - Im not sure - did we have the Moon also? nah! ok Before I venture into the islands here, I did go out in Christchurch, New Zealand- attempting to go to a dance club, but it was a Tuesday and things don't hot up (so I've been told) in ... read more

We came back to Hollywood on friday night and checked back into the hostel just off the boulevard. The reason we had returned was for 2 concerts over the weekend... On Saturday night we went to see Queen & Paul Rodgers at the amazingly recognisable Hollywood Bowl (remember the Monty Python show?). They played a great mix of old favourites plus some good old Free/Bad Company songs. The highlight, however, had to be be when Brian May introduced "a local boy done gone" to the stage and SLASH walked on to play along to "Can't get enough of your love". After the show, we were herded onto the wrong shuttle bus and had an impromtu tour of Universal City before persuading our bus driver to drop us back at the bowl once all the passengers had ... read more

Greetings from Hollywood! Caitlin and I have safely arrived in LA. Our flight from the East Coast was a shaky start to our global adventures. Melissa (Caitlin's girlfriend) had kindly agreed to drive us from MA to Bradley International in Connecticut. After a hectic morning at the Head of the Charles, they picked me up from the Starfish house of love in JP and we quickly got on our way! Our initial excitement was soon dampened, literally. There was pouring rain, slick road and stand-still traffic on Route 9. To top it all off, we realized in the car that we had miscommunicated about the departure time. Our flight was scheduled to leave at 5:30 instead of 6:30! Melissa's excellent driving skills and her all-weather tires were put to the test. I placed a frantic phone ... read more

Hey all... long time no chat. Sal and I have both been extremly busy as we havent had a day off in the last month until today! yah.... we arent really doing anything though as we are so tired. So in the last month we have worked and drank... a lot lol, but no major events have happened. In 2 weeks Etienne (frenchie) Sal and I are all headed to Vegas for a few days and then we are also goin to visit the grand canyon. Then we are goin to come back up here to have the harvest party and then we are headed to San Fran to meet up with Holly and Dave. Thats about all the plans we have made so far, but we also wanna head down to L.A and take a ... read more