stopover in L.A. and first few days in Sydney

Hey everyone sorry its been awhile we have had a bit of trouble using our laptops but we got it all sorted out now.
Soooooo we had a stopover in LA which was unexpected but was nice. The day we had in LA we went to Venice Beach and Santa Monica Pier, it was absoloutley gorgeous and i was sooo excited to finally see an ocean and real palm trees!
So i saw and dipped my feet in the pacific Ocean!
We had food at the Santa Monica Pier and they were the best nachos i have ever had although the cheese was getting pretty hot by the end, lol.
I also like a true tourist bought myself a cute little keychain that is a cali license plate and says my name on it so i could have a token from my short but great time in Los Angeles, California!
Then we walked to the shopping street called 5th St. Promenade and went into a few shops, i didn't buy anything cept this one cute shirt at Forever 21 (also my first time at this store).
Then we walked back to the pier and took some pics, it was really nice beach. WE walked to the end of it where this man dressed in a powder blue vest and pants was disco dancing on the pier it was hilarious yet also a bit creeperish! we just laughed especially when michelle told me to go dance with him, which I of course refused to do!
We also had really good frozen yogurt at this place called Pinkberry.
We then made it all the way back to LAX on the public bus all by ourself had a nice sit down meal in the airport for supper since we had loads of time and then just waited for the plane to leave to SYDNEY!!!
Oh we also had these cinnamon sticks which were delicious called Churro's in LA!
off to Sydney finally!

So i'm going to talk about the flight on this blog too and then post a whole nother one bout Sydney and our week here so far!
K so the flight to Sydney was 14 hours 45 minutes it was pretty long but they gave us pillows and blankets, we got supper and breakfast and a snack! and they showed 4 movies and a few tv shows so we had lots of entertainment. I also read and slept maybe 4 hours total but not well on the plane.
But the plane we were one was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was a huuuuuge jumbo jet it had two levels and first class was upstairs!!!!! and the plane seemed to just go on forever and ever when you walked in it. They had 2 aisles down the sides of the plane and 4 seats in the middle then 3 on the sides.... chelle and I had a side seats and unfortunately not the window but it was dark out that whole time anyways!
When we were approaching Australia though we could see a beautiful orange sunset starting above the clouds which i have a pic of on facebook!
We got a beautiful view of the city of Sydney at night when we were descending in the plane.
so we arrive in Sydney and we were grounded in the plane for about an hour while the quarantine people came through making sure everything was ok. In Australia they are very strict about what ppl can bring over and such as they don't want any diseases or pests and stuff brought over!
So then we had to go through the airport customs line which took awhile and we finally finally got out of the airport and found our ride. Michelle and I were sooooooo excited cuz they guy they sent to pick us up was a very cute Australian boy named Louis :)
so he took us to the hostel and we had to climb quite a few flights of stairs but we coudln't check in yet so we just chilled walked around the block of the hostel got some food and went and sat on the beautiful Coogee Beach!
I was eating my bun i got at the bakery when all of a sudden this seagull comes flying out of nowhere takes the half eaten bun right out of my hand and takes off with it, i was shocked and a bit upset about this! Michelle didn't see it at all but when i told her what had happened she pretty much died laughing lol.
The seagulls here are vultures they are evil things, really.
Another thing we noticed right away in Oz was that they drive on the right hand side of the car and the left hand side of the road which is completely opposite to us so driving to the hostel freaked us out as it looked like we were driving straight on into oncoming traffic :S
Everyone is so nice here, Australians are very friendly people and their accents are well amazing!
I just love love it!

So we discovered these birds that come around the hostel right away. I have pics of them on facebook as well. They are called Rainbow Larakeets i believe and they are sooo pretty, so colourful! Well they like sugar so if you have sugar in your hand they will come right up on your hand and eat it and they are such pretty birds so we had a bit of excitement seeing them first like hour we were there.
The people at the hostel were super nice we spent the night just chatting to people and having fun and of course relaxing. We also got to meet Bonnie and Amber that night finally who are in our Oz intro group. They had been travelling for weeks before we left so we hadn't talked to them as much before we went so it was great to finally meet them!
There is a popular drink here cuz its cheap called Goon (boxed wine) the stuff is nasty as heck but we had a glass of it anyways that first night lol.
We also had tons of laughs about how different the Canadians the British people say things! Like for example they call purses bags and then our wallets they call purses so we had fun arguments about that lol.
We stayed up till past midnight that night to beat our jet lag and it really worked the next day we were still tired but we were fine!

Next day we went to the beach but it got cold real quick. They we finally went and got our cells and i will post the # later on in this blog.
We got to go out that night with michelle's friend Brooke and her friend Gea, and they were so nice. We went to HIllsongs church but we went to the city campus the hills campus is the real famous one! But it was amazing it of course wasn't Hillsong United playing but it was just as good! Then Brooke and her friend took us to darling harbour and we had the most amazing view, (pics are on fbook) and the most amazing hot chocolate from the Lindt choc company. Then we had pancakes at this little placed called Pancakes on the rocks!
It's really easy to walk around the block and find food, shopping, groceries, all those types of things so that has been really nice but everything is so friggin expensive here! so we prob aren't going to stay too long maybe only like another week after our Oz intro week is over.