Well, its been HOT - almost 100F - the last couple of days, although thankfully it's cooling down a bit now to a more managable temperature. The autumn average tends to be around 20-25C, which is my ideal temperature as it's warm enough to walk around in a T shirt without it being unbearably hot. Anyway, enough about the weather, I sound so terribly stereotypically British..!
On my first full day here (Wednesday) I managed to escape the heat by spending most of the time in air conditioned buildings, although waiting for the bus in the afternoon sun with no shade I was *melting*! The bus over here is quite an interesting experience. In LA, everyone drives. LA is such a spread-out, spralling city it's pretty difficult to get by without a car. Luckily, where Paul and Amanda live is very central for both downtown and Hollywood, both easily accessible on the Metro or bus. Anyway, so the bus is limited to mainly Mexicans and crazy old people. You get a lot of crazy people on the bus in Brighton, but the people on the LA buses are even crazier, if that's possible. Like on Wednesday, I saw an elderly gentleman wearing a comedy nose/glasses ensemble you'd find in a joke shop, along with a puppet thing tied to his zimmer frame, to which he was happily chatting away too. And then later on the bus back I saw an old lady with a bamboo cane with a lightbulb type thing attached to the top. Anyway, it certainly makes the ride more interesting, as does the passing sceney; TV studios, Hollywood sign, blue skies and palm trees.
Yesterday, Amanda and I went for lunch in Silver Lake - my salad was delicious but soooo big, I couldn't quite eat it all. Defeated by a *salad*. On the way back we passed some cool street art. I love LA street art, one day soon I'll spend a whole day walking around the city photographing it and do a whole blog about it. I'm also going to write a whole blog soon on another of my passions - game shows. Watch this space...
Three cheese salad - soooo big
Funky graffiti
And more... WALL-E's LA cousin??
This weekend we have some friends visiting, as well as a house party in Hollywood tonight. This morning we had a delicious brunch then went to buy record in Hollywood and got my favvvvvvourite drink on the way home (boba tea, no less) We're currently trying to set up an extremely complex board game, I hope playing it isn't as complex!
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