Today was a guy called Carter's birthday. His nickname was Mississippi as that's where he's from and he has a very strong accent (think Forest Gump!). Anyway, he was 26 today which made him 2 days older than me! We didn't end up seeing much of him though, even though we had planned to celebrate both of our birthdays. I got up first and had breakfast (Dave was sufferring slightly so had an extra hour in bed!), and then we headed to the library to use the computer...

We managed to get up a bit earlier today, after our early night, so we decided to hire bikes for the day. The hostel hires them out for $10 a day, whereas it's more like $25 down at the beach. I had my eye on a pink one (of course!) but the French lady whio owned the hostel showed me that the seat was too high and she couldn't lower it. I settled on a nice turquoise coloured one which was also lovely, and had a bigger seat so would be more comfortable. The only t...

We both felt a little delicate this morning so we slept in late, I even missed the free breakfast! After phoning home to catch up, we made our sandwiches and headed for the beach - no better way to cure a hangover! We spent a few hours sunbathing, but didn't go in the Ocean this time, the waves looked a little bit too high for us. Back at the hostel we showered then decided to eat out again so went to the bar downstairs and had some lovely fajitas at a bargain p...

The first thing we did when we woke up was look out of the window and see the Ocean! Hermosa Beach is such a lovely place, everyone is happy and smiling, noone has a care in the world! The boardwalk is lined with multi million dollar properties which look amazing and there are loads of people riding bikes, skateboarding, rollerskating..all in the sunshine! We couldn't wait to get to the beach so we headed straight there after having some breakfast (free of course...