Thursday was our beach day. We started it off by driving to Crystal Cove State Park, with a quick stopover at the Crystal Cathedral for some photos. Impressive place built totally out of glass! Anyway, Crystal Cove State Park is a protected area between Newport and Laguna Beach. Very peaceful place and nice to wander for a few hours. After this we drove up Highway 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) to Huntington Beach, or as the locals call it, Surf City USA! What a...

Our time in LA got busier on Wednesday as we tried to cram in lots of things in one day, which was made even longer by the lovely LA traffic jams once again, oh well.We started the day by driving up to Hollywood as we wanted to go an do a tour of the Kodak Theatre as we hadn't done that before. The Kodak Theatre is where the Oscars are held every year and they do tours during the day for $15 each. We thought it was a bit steep to start with but at the end it tu...

The day Emma has been looking forward to for ages, and the day Andy had been fearing had finally arrived. We were going to Six Flags Magic Mountain, home of some of the biggest rollercoasters in the world!! It was a little further than we thought, took us just over an hour to get there, but well worth it! The first coaster Em went on was Viper, seriously twisty coaster but great fun! Next up was Tatsu, OMG, even Em was scared on this one, flying coaster hang...

Well, after 12hrs in the air of which was probably the best economy flight we have ever taken (and we've done a lot now) we touched down at LAX at 19:30. It was a long day, made longer by the fact that we were the first people to check in for the flight at 11:30 but we weren't keen, honest! But as we said the flight itself was brilliant especially as seats on Air New Zealand weren't designed around everyone being 3ft tall so we could at least stretch our legs a...