Today Boon Piou took the morning off to show us around Ranchos Palos Verdes! We visited Trumps National golf course before checking out some of the multimillion dollar mansions in Rolling Hills and Boon Piou’s dream home! Then it was off to Costcos to check out prices for a GPS!
Costcos is basically a huge warehouse that sells everything in bulk for cheap! You have to be a member to shop there. I think it costs around USD 30 per year. They didn’t stock the model we wanted though. Boon Piou got a call from work and had to rush off so he dropped us at Enterprise car rentals in Lomita. We got a Hyundai Sonata for about USD 55 per day and we were off!
Man it was weird driving on the left side of the car and right side of the road! Di had to constantly remind me which lane to drive in! I also had difficulty keeping the car in the middle of the lane and kept drifting to the right cos I’m used to right hand drive cars! We drove to Circuit City nearby and got a Garmin Nuvi 200W to use for our tour of California!
Next we drove to Santa Monica beach to grab some lunch and check out the Californian beach scene! We found free parking in Macy’s shopping centre and headed towards the water. Now finally we found a real beach like those back home! The beach had fine sand and stretched for miles! We headed to the famous Santa Monica pier and checked out the small carnival there and the Bubba Gump store before getting a taste of our first real American fast food!
Di got a cheeseburger and I got a fish fillet sandwich! Mmm so greasy! After lunch we went for a walk along the beach enjoying the warm Californian sun and watching people cycle and rollerblade along side us!
Mid afternoon we headed over to Beverly Hills and the famous Rodeo drive! We drove down the snazzy shopping strip with all the luxury brand names before turning into that street you always see in the movies of Beverly Hills lined with the tall palm trees!
Then we drove to nearby Hollywood! We parked under the Kodak Theatre and checked out the Hollywood walk of fame! We saw plenty of big names’ stars including those from the movie, tv, and music industries! Outside the Chinese theatre there were plenty of people checking out the hand and footprints of Hollywood’s famous in the sidewalk!
We left Hollywood around 6pm and headed back to Boon Piou’s place. It took almost an hour! Then we went for dinner! They wanted to take us to this Malaysian place for dinner but we went there and it was closed! So we went to a Japanese place instead called Hakone! We had sashimi and tempura/teriyaki combos - yum!
After dinner we watched some of Nigel’s soccer matches before playing Wii soccer! Nite!
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