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19/10/10 - 26/10/10
Arrived in San Diego very late at night. Got off the Greyhound bus and headed for the hostel. It was in the 'Gaslamp Quarter'. This district is full of resteraunts, bars and clubs so it was an ideal loctation :) Unfortunately the next day it was pretty dull and rainy, defo not what we expected from san diego!! We were still pretty tired so we went for lunch and had a chilled out day, reading, meeting people from the hostel and watching movies. We headed to 'Freds' mexican at night with the hostel group. It was a tuesday special.....2 for $5 Margaritas and $2 tacos...arriba!! They were yummy.
21/10/10
Headed to Balboa Park - This is one of the highlights of San Diego. Its a massive park with many different museums, a botanic gardgens, a chinese gardens, an outdoor concert hall, many fountains and art deco statues! We took the free trolley tour around the park to take it all in.
San Diego is definetly a party town and we were staying at a partying hostel!! There were many nights spent in the common room meeting new friends and getting to know each other. The staff in the hostel were really friendly too, and a little bit crazy at times!When they werent working they would join in with all our fun!! :)
22/10/10
Today we headed to the USS Midway - This is one of the largest and longest serving navel ships in the world, it even served through World War 2! We were both amazed by the sheer size of this ship!! It was huge! It is now permanetly docked in San Diego and has been turned into a museum to show people what life is like on a navel ship. We were very suprised by the small living wuarters within the ship and at one point there were over 4,000 people on the boat. There were many planes on display from as early as the 1930's. We went up to the flight deck where planes would take off and land when the ship was in operation. The landing strip really wasnt that long and it fascinated us how the manage to even get into the air and land without crashing into the sea! There were many fighter jets on display which was probably the coolest part of it! I just couldn't get the Top Gun theme song out of my head!!! '....highway to the danger zone!!!!' There were helicopters with huge machine guns on the side of them, and air rescue helicoptors.
After ths we took a walk along the marina to see all the very big and expensive boats that were docked there! I just made us think about all the people living in luxury whilst we had to head back to our hostel.
23/10/10
We went to Tijuana, Mexico today. This was a tour run by the hostel. We were very scared before hand as we hoped we would get back across the border into the USA but we were excited about the $1 coronas and $2 margaritas! Jerry Kay was not at all happy about Mexico as he jumped out of chris's pocket and land on top of a cactus! ouch! Although he was happy when he got to drink a corona! We got a taste of mexican music when a small band played their guitars and sang for us! We headed off to a resteraunt for some burritos and tacos. Chico was happy as he got a wee cocktail! (He doesn't like beer!) Then it was tequila time!! (When in rome...!) and only after tequila do you think its a good idea to go on the mechanical bull!!heehee (chris fell off after about 2 secs on his 1st attempt but did get back on and managed to stay on for a bit longer so regained some of his dignity!!)
24/10/10
Today we went to Balboa Park park again to see the International houses since these only open on a Sunday. Each house gives you a brief history of the country and tells you about either, The Royal Family, The President or the Prime Minister of the country. We also got to sample some of the traditional foods from each country which was pretty cool. Each week a different country has to host the events on the main stage and it was just out luck is was Scotland's week. So we got to see some highland dancing along with some Bag Pipe playing. However I was very disappointed when we arrived at the Scotland house hoping to taste some lovely haggis, neeps and tatties only to be met with a Scotch Pie !!! After some discussion with a very rude American trying to be Scottish we left without our haggis :(. After leaving the international houses we went to another part of the park for an open air Organ Concert. This organ was huge with over 400 different pipes ranging from 3/4 of and inch to 24 feet high. The lady playing the organ was very good and totally got into the concert and we had a great time listening to her play.
25/10/2010
Today we left San Diego and headed back to LA as we were getting our flight to Fiji the following day. We travelled up with some people from the hostel so the 3 and a 1/2 hour journey didn't seem that long. We were staying in Santa Monica so after dropping our bags off we spent the rest of the day wondering around looking at the shops and getting food.
26/10/10
Our last day in Calafornia and our last day in the USA. We had heard so much about a particular fast food place that is only available in California called 'In and Out Burger', so we made it our mission to find one and have a burger from there. The menu only has three things on it, a Hamburger, a Cheeseburger, and a Double Double Burger. It is famous for its burgers done animal style and it didn't disappoint at all. The animal style sauce is like thousand island dressing with mushrooms and caralemised onions through it, and the burger is so fresh and tasty it was totally worth the trip. After this we just chiiled out on the beach front before catching the bus to the airport to fly to Fiji.
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