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OK, so maybe we needed more caffeine.... |
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Sarah's favourite :) |
On Sunday
Linda was off to run the Disney Tinkerbell half-marathon (being the legend that
she is – she completed it under her time goal). So on Saturday night we drove down to Disney
Land to see her off and wish her luck after enjoying dinner with Heather,
Dallas and Wyatt at the Rainforest Café.
The café is literally like an indoor rainforest complete with
thunderstorms every 10 minutes or so and filled with exotic, moving animals –
great for the kiddies.
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Having fun on Santa Monica Pier |
Linda and
Denny were such good hosts as they made sure we saw LA while also treating us
to some normality that we’d been craving at their home. We had trips to Big Bear Lake (beautiful, but
not much snow as it had been a bad season), the famous star-studded LA street,
Rodeo Drive and Santa Monica Bvd which was great lit up at night. Sarah had a girl’s day out with Linda and
Heather, heading to the beautician for a pedicure on feet that sorely needed
some TLC after so much Birkenstock wearing (although poor Linda’s feet were
just plain sore after her half-marathon!)
We started
our visit with Australia Day celebrations and finished it with an American
tradition – the Superbowl! We were invited to Heather and Dallas’ place and it
was an excellent first Superbowl experience.
It was our first time to eat buffalo wings (and they are gooood,
especially accompanied with beans, chilli and cheese…) and we were delighted to
have what the Americans call ‘root beer floats’ for dessert, but what most
Aussie’s would simply call a spider which is done with root beer instead of
coke – it had been a while since we’d enjoyed one of those!
Unfortunately
the day of departure came far too quickly and before we knew it we were driving
to LAX to catch our flight to Turkey. It
was a sad farewell at the airport – since it had been such a great visit and
one that we’d been looking forward too for our entire South American tour.
See you all
in Australia soon Linda, Denny and Lilly!!
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