The house in LA was pretty cool and I was incredibly happy to be in LA, I'd been looking forward to is the whole trip.
Pretty self explanatory right?
We were staying in Santa Monica, right in between of Santa Monica Pier & Venice Beach.
That night, we celebrated my A-level grades with the most amazing sushi at Hama Sushi in Venice Beach.
We shared Salmon Sashimi and I opted for 'Strawberry Roll' -Shrimp tempura, cucumber and avocado topped snow crab and strawberries. Topped with a sweet sauce and sesame seeds.
After a whole plate of it, it was a little sickly, as I'm definitely someone who likes a little bit of everything, but it was delicious!
Our first full day was spent lazying on the beach, topping up the tan, splashing in the sea and roaming around Venice Beach, all topped off with a BBQ and some champers. (We were really dragging out those A-level result celebrations)
Venice Beach is crazy.
It's like Camden on a hell of a lot of drugs.
Crazy people, fantastic artwork, quirky shops, skaters zooming past you and zipping up and down ramps and in and out of bowls, just everything going on.
The next day we had another beach day, then headed to a view point to see that iconic Hollywood sign.
Our next stop that night was The Grove. I'd seen it on The Hills and been told to go, but I have to stay I was a little bit disappointed with the selection of shops there.
But I didn't let it spoil anything. I picked up the bits I wanted to from Anthropologie and we had a fantastic Greek Dinner in a lovely little restaurant there.
We headed back to the villa to catch some Zzz's for the big day to follow.
IT WAS DISNEYLAND DAY!
I had begged for us to go to an iHop during our trip, so we went to one just around the corner from Disneyland in Anaheim.
The Red Velvet pancakes were super yummy, but the service wasn't as great as Denny's, I have to say!
Full up on pancakes, teas, coffees and sausages we got on a shuttle headed for Disney!
Entering a world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy sounded perfect to me.
It's so magical in Disneyland. I'd been to Disneyworld, Florida before, but not the original Disney in LA.
You just enter this world were fantasy is reality.
The characters you loved and felt you know as you grew up are roaming around with you.
I was on the hunt for some Minnie Ears, but I could only find sequinned/glittery ones. I wasn't settling for those, so I ran half way across the park to get the original ones.
Minnie ears on my head and a smile on my face we hopped on to some rides!
Ethan's Stars Wars obsession being fulfilled!
I felt like a big kid the whole day!
Due to the inane-ness of 'It's a small world' my dad and I decided we had to go on it.
Ethan asked 'Is it fun? and Is it fast?' Both answers being no, so he declined the offer and went off to look for something slightly more thrilling!
The sun started to set and the streets started to fill with excited Disney-goers getting ready for the fireworks.
Ice cream and cameras in hand (which is actually quite a tricky thing to multi-task may I add...)
The fireworks, the music, the flying Tinkerbell & Dumbo and the beautifully lit castle made me feel quite emotional.
This is one of my favourite photos from the trip.
All excited (and feeling slightly sick from a very sickly ice cream choice. Note to self: Don't opt for hot fudge sauce on to next time. Bleurghh.) we decided to go on Space Mountain one last time.
Don't do it kids, just don't do it.
After a long journey home of feeling very, very sick, It wad bed time!
It was our last full day in America and I spent the morning exhausting my purse strings.
I discovered Brandy Melville, fell in love with it, spent the last of my money and admired (and still admire) the items I purchased.
Have a little look at a few things I purchased here in my America Haul!
The shopping in Santa Monica is great, every shop you could want is there. So we returned there that evening for even more shopping and the best dinner at Blue Plate Oysterette, near Santa Monica Pier.
Our last day of the holiday, we lunched in Venice Beach, we swam in Santa Monica & we headed to LAX to fly home, first class.
Flying first class was such a luxury and definitely something I could get used to...
11 hours later, we were home!
It was the best trip, unforgettable, amazing, incredible.
I really hope you enjoyed reading about my adventures!
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We arrived at our cute little log cabin and immediately headed for the pool.
It was hot hot hot!
That night, at 3am I woke to receive my A-level results (Dodgy log cabin Wi-fi permitting...)
I received my results, Three B's and bounded out of bed to wake my dad to tell him and give my mum (who was back in the UK a quick ring!)
I was super excited, so risked my life (I may be exaggerating slightly) due to possible bears in the wild, by heading out on to the balcony to find signal to call my Mumma!
As I needed very low grades to get into my university I didn't have to be at home for results day. Originally the plan was to head home a week earlier than my family to be back for results, but there was no way I was missing out on San Francisco, Sequoia & LA!
The next morning, full of to die for French Toast & gorgeous fruit compote, we headed to Sequoia National Park.
Home of the biggest living thing in the world, General Sherman.
General Sherman really is huge. Really huge.
The trees in Sequoia are insane. So tall and wide. One after another.
This cheeky one had a little climb on the maahoosive broken tree.
A lot of the trees, due to fire (I think) have started to rot inside, meaning you can get in them!
Years ago, when my dad came here with my Mum. He wrote a beautiful song called Sequoia.
He told us the one thing he wanted to do whilst we were there was return to the exact place that inspired him to write the song and play it.
It was actually quite emotional for me, but especially my dad.
I just got to me that he was inspired to write the song when he was here with my Mum, all those years ago.
And now, he was here with me, listening to that very song.
Sights taken in, Trees 'wow-ed' at we were ready for the drive to LA. Taking snaps along the way.
This part I was very very ready & very very excited for!
Next Up: Los Angeles Baby!
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