First of all a quick catch up on the last 48 hours! I flew from Heathrow on Thursday afternoon at 12pm and got into LA at 2.40pm (US time). I had 6 hours to kill here and had met a girl on the plane called Suzie who also had time to kill so what did we do... jumped into the first taxi and headed for Venice Beach! Wow it was amazing! The weather was fantastic so we spent the afternoon on the beach, eating big US hamburgers and drinking freshly squeezed OJ!! This was the life, my holiday had began!! But then it was back to the airport to catch another gruelling 12 hours flight to Auckland, and here the adventure really begins!!

PS - Ignore the date on this journal, it should be the 17th Feb but the web-site won't let me change it!