UP DATE

We left Monterey around lunch time and headed for Santa Barbara (home of Pat Curren surfing Legend of the 1950s-1960s and Tom Curren Pats son surfing legend of the 1980s-1990s) so Sam and I were hoping to buy boards here and get some much needed surf time.

We got into Santa Barbara late and every thing was closed so we drove through the next little town around 8 miles south called Carpinteria only small but super nice (it’s where surfing sex wax is made) and is on Rincon Point (top surfing place)  we checked into a cool RV park right on the beach, then walked into town for tea. We found a mad Mexican place called Cabos top food real home style cooking.

Cabo’s had $5 margarites that the girls were happy with. The lady behind the bar loved our accents so I think she was making the drinks doubles. Sarah only had one drink and she was off her face, she even had a small chuck back at the RV park.

The next morning we got up and made our way down the coast heading for Danna Point. We went thought Malibu, Long Beach, Huntington Beach and New Port Beach.

They were all over rated, nothing like what you see on the surfing movies or  tv shows. Waves and sand were dirty and shitty (they had nothing on the beaches back home). Crowds and crowds of people, with a toll of $25 + TO PARK on the beach, some of the line ups to get into the car park ran for kilometres. (Malibu was crowded but looked the best of them all)

We went in to New Port RV Park to see how much it was to stay a night. They wanted $175 for one night!!!!! We told them to stick it (very nicely) turned around and drove 4.5 hours back up the coast back to Carpinteria. We pulled in around 9 pm.

The next morning we decided that we had a enough of driving and booked in for the next 2 nights before we had to head to LA. The next day we met the Family staying next to us who were such top people 9 of them in total.

Nick and Lindsey were the eldest at 17 and Barrett the youngest at 7. Barrett and Nick just moved to Bakersfield from Louisiana, this being Barrett’s first time seeing the ocean. Lindsey (girl) was from Bakersfield and was the boys cousin. 

We hung out with them over the next few days. Asking continuous questions about each others countries (if we had pet kangaroos and if there were sharks every where)

One night one of the family’s staying across from us bailed Sam Jen and myself  up  asking questions  about oz before we know it we had over 20 people standing around listening in on our accent and what we had to say (it felt like we were at a press meeting )

Americans in school, a told very little about the rest of world, Sam was asked if we had tigers in the jungle back at home??? (not by a kid either ) Sam replied with ‘ “Were not fucking Africa” (in a nice Sam way) it was classic.

Nick, Lindsey and Barrett were super keen to learn how to surf. So the morning before we left Sam and I hired some flowed Soft Top Surfboards and surprised them with a Surf Lesson needless to say they were stoked.

Little Barrett was freezing but just kept going and going with teeth chattering and all. Nick and Lindsey KILLED it both getting up first go (must have been the great coaches they had haha) we had people asking if we were from the local surf shop and how much we charge an hour telling us what a great job we were doing. We loved it, seeing how stoked they got when they got a wave and stood up. That was it, we were going to move here and open a Surf School  “COLE EAST SURF SCHOOL” hahaha

We returned the boards and went back to Cabos for the last time.

The next day 26-6-2012 we got up and headed for Anaheim RV Resort one block back from Disney Land, traffic was not too bad and we got there just after lunch. We did some much needed washing (which gave me a few mid drift tops) and chilled around the pool. We ordered pizza who delivered to our RV door ‘STYLISH’. We watched a movie on the laptop and went to bed ready for our big day the next day at Disney Land.

Next morning 27-6-2012 we were up early caught the first 7am bus to Disney Land we were all like Little kids could not wait to get there. We got our tickets and walked in.

It was AWESOME and massive its like you just walked into every kids dream town. All the staff a wearing 1950’s style uniforms that fitted in with the area that you were in. New Orleans town has a full size old school steam/paddle boat going around the lake which also has a full size Pirate Ship sailing around too. There’s Toon Town and much much more. We did the Indiana Jones ride, Star Wars ride, Jungle cruise, Magic Mountain ride and  heaps more.

Around 2ish we made our way over to the second part of the park called California    Adventure Park which is just as big but is more suited to the older kids with roller coasters, holly wood town etc and sells alcohol where in Disney Land you can not buy alcohol or smoke.

This is where the Today Show was shooting from as well so we said hey to Lisa and Carl and all got on tv. We hit up a few more rides and made our way back to Disney Land for Mickey’s Street parade which was real cool by then we all had enough we  made our way back to the RV Park.( if you had more time you would do it over two days for sure)

The next day 28-6-2012 we caught the train into LA (to hard and long to drive into town) which cost you $28 per person to travel 40min into town and return  (no wonder there is so many people drive to work ). Then we still had to catch the sub way which was a eye opener at $5 per person.

You get off the sub way at Hollywood blvd which throw’s you right into it. Black dudes trying to give you there demo CD’s for FREE (when your in the US nothing is ever FREE)  and when you take it they hit you up for  what they call A Tip!!! (yeah I found out the hard way).

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here is People that think they look like some one famous walking around asking for Tips for photos with them  ( I think some may have been hookers ) we only saw one guy that looked like Samuel Jackson dressed like he was is Pulp Fiction ( it may of acutely been him) 

Every second person runs the best star tour in town and try to suck you in (some a just mini vans with roofs cut off that I am damn sure they have done at home them selves

Basically it’s like bali on crack which more then a few people may of actually been on crack…….

We made it to Chinese theatre where the concrete hand prints a of famous actors which is real cool. There is every one from harry potter to marilyn Monroe. After that we went to Madame Tussauds wax museum cool place to check out.

By this time we worked up a appétit so we hit up Hooters for a feed…..