Sunday 3rd June 2007

After all the exploring we did yesterday, we thought we'd catch the bus down to Long Beach today - to see what that was like. Before we did that though we had some breakfast and then did a Skype video call with Mum and Keith. We were really excited, saying how we were moving onto New Zealand tomorrow and Mum started to cry... again! She said it was because we were moving further away (bless her).

Once we'd finished the call we walked up to the bus-stop, which was on the Pacific Coast Highway (the same one we were on in Malibu - so it must run the entire West Coast of California!?) and waited for the bus. When we realised that we'd just missed one we went into Ralph's and bought ourselves some salad for our dinner, which we took to eat in Long Beach.

Long Beach is great! We got off the bus down by the harbor where there are loads of shops. We looked in a few and also rode the Ferris Wheel before walking along the shore up to a lighthouse. Everywhere was lush and green, the sun was shining and we were sharing a cheesecake ice cream... perfect!

After we'd spent a couple of hours looking round the shore area we headed in to the centre and had a look in some of the shops. Nikki bought herself a really cool pair of Puma trainers with her birthday money and we invested in some sweets for tomorrows 13 hour flight.

When it was time to come home, we missed the bus and because it was an hour till the next one we went in Starbucks and shared a Orange Mocha. We eventually did catch the bus and when we got off we popped into a lovely pizza shop for a slice each.

We then came back to our room, wrote the blog and drank some beers whilst listening to some band playing in the club below!

Long Beach in the house!