Hello everyone, it sure has been a while since my last blog
entry. As you may remember, I was going away to California on holiday for 3
weeks, and unfortunately I am now back. I say unfortunately, as like most
holidays, I was having too much of a good time to want to come back.
So let me tell you a little bit about my time away. The
first thing to any holiday is getting there, obviously. My journey to Los
Angeles International was sadly not direct, and I had to go to Dallas first,
and then catch another flight. Because Heathrow doesn't seem to have many
runways, there was a queue on the runway for a before the plane could took off,
which meant that there was a delay taking off. I was already worried, because I
only had 2 hours between landing and catching my next flight. The journey to
Dallas wasn’t the best experience I had, it was just under 10 hours, and I had
to sit behind someone who had their seat reclined for the entire length of the
flight, meaning I had very little room. Well, less than you normally get in
economy.
Fortunately for me (but unfortunate for some) my flight from
Dallas to Los Angeles was delayed due to bad weather… bearing in mind when I
arrived in Dallas, it was 32°C, with a clear blue sky. But apparently there had
been thunder storms earlier in the day which had delayed all flights for 2
hours, which did work in my favour.
I didn’t do a great deal of travelling, in the sense that I
only visited a few places during my stay, including: Santa Barbara,
Bakersfield, Fresno, and ending up in San Luis Obispo, which was my favourite
of all the places I visited. The view in the evening of all the places I went
to was stunning; this is more or less the view I had in all locations.
Whilst I was in San Luis Obispo, there were a couple of
places worth taking a picture of. One was of an alleyway full of chewing gum.
That’s right, you read that correctly. It was amazing to see, but at the same
time was incredibly gross.
And the last one is of a theatre called the Fremont, which
is one of those amazing movie theatre places that look like it’s from a film in
the 50’s, this was my attempt at trying to take a photo of it (I was in a hurry
to catch a bus that comes every 40 minutes). If you want to see a better
version of it, a Google image search will come up better photos.
Speaking of theatres, whilst I was away, I went to see Monsters
University, which came out whilst I was there, and doesn’t come out in the UK
until the 12th of July. It was an amazing film, and I would
recommend it to anyone who loved Monsters Inc. Unfortunately I didn’t see it in
the Fremont theatre, but the cinema that I did see it in, the ticket only cost
me $7.50 (not even £5). I don’t know why this genuinely shocked me, maybe
because cinema tickets here seem to cost an arm and a leg. The smell of the
popcorn was also the most amazing thing ever.
Speaking of food, one thing that I discovered whilst away,
and is something that I've not found in the UK (from all searches I've done) is
white sauce pizza. It’s basically a white sauce similar to that found in a
lasagne that replaces the usual red sauce on pizza. It has the most amazing
flavour, and I can’t even describe the taste, only that it is better than any
pizza I've ever had.
My holiday mainly consisted of some travelling, but mainly
just of me catching up on some much needed relaxation time. There were days
(especially the one where it got to 40°C) where I didn’t do anything, and just
spent my time taking it easy, leaving me feeling very relaxed.
My journey home felt like a never ending journey, totaling
around 18 hour’s total. The last place I was in was San Luis Obispo, which is
just under 200 miles away from Los Angeles, where I had to catch my flight
from. To get there, it meant getting another train (I traveled by train to
each location) except this was the longest one, taking me 5hr30 station to
station, with the journey starting at 6:55am. Although the trains are rather
large, and had two levels, they were so slow, which was the main reason why it
took so long.
After a flight just over 10 hours, I arrived back in rainy
London, where I found out Sharon Osborne was on my flight! She was standing at
baggage reclaim with her body guard who collected her bag for her. If only I
had someone to do that for me!
In other news, I officially passed my second year of
university! Only one more to go, hopefully! Fingers crossed that all of you
manage to pass as well.
Until next time, take care!
To the people I didn’t buy
presents for, I sent them a personalised card. This brings me onto my next
topic of post delivery. I don’t know about anyone else, but the post seems to
be really slow recently. I don’t know if it’s the time of the year, but I sent
a card to one of my friends who lives in the south of Germany, and at the same
time sent a card to someone in Manchester. The card sent to Germany took 2 days
to arrive, and the card to Manchester took 5… both sent first class. 
