Manhattan Beach
Oh, so good!
Now, this is what the most famous LA-beach should look like :)
After this we spent some time at LAX airport and then on the nightplan back to Boston. We had lots of space and it was a great plane to sleep on.
Julia is excited we have only a few days left until we're back home in Sweden!
Manhattan Beach
Oh, so good!
Now, this is what the most famous LA-beach should look like :)
After this we spent some time at LAX airport and then on the nightplan back to Boston. We had lots of space and it was a great plane to sleep on.
Julia is excited we have only a few days left until we're back home in Sweden.
Manhattan & Hermosa Beach
A very cloudy day, but we went for a walk anyway. It was still warm outside.
We lied on the beach even though there was no sun.
We walked to Hermosa Beach, which is the inspiration to the open shopping mall in the oc.
Some ice cream!!
Back at Redondo Beach.
Newport Yacht Club in the oc.
This boat will be inspiration for a romantic date in my third book about Annie and Alexander.
Look what I found at our motel!?
Movietime.
The O.C - Redondo Beach
Just like in the O.C.
Old Tony's.
The Pier.
The Restaurant in the O.C.
The place was pretty old and a little bit "trashy", but it didn't matter - it was so cool to recognize everything from the oc.
Their autographs.
Yum!
It's one of my dreams to buy one of these cars!!
Our motel.
Yogurt-time!
Candy-time behind the door! (the only place were we had internet connection!)
Our room, pretty cheap but very nice for the price.
Universial Studios day 2
Forrest Gump.
Ted - from the Boston-movie "TED".
Made of candy.
The donkey from Shrek.
NBC Universial.
Mr Bean.
This is where the fast and furious-cars should have been, but this part was under construction.
The best ice cream ever!!
Crepes.
Universial Studios day 1
Flintstones.
Shrek 4D-show. With water, wind, heat etc. And 3D movie.
"Behind the scenes" - how to make a movie. An interesting show.
The old fashioned way of showing a dinosaur.
In the hands of King Kong.
A family on a boat.
A person with dots they later on take the motions and make an animal moving for example.
In the italian pizza-line.
Posters of movies and musicals along the road of the studio tour.
Stage 12.
Some of the buildings they have here.
What is behind....
On our way into the 3Dmovie.
Famous cars.
From the movie the Shark.
Desperate housewives!!
Gabby's house.
Susan's.
Lynettes.
Edie's.
Edie's.
Mrs McCluskey.
Mike's.
Bree's.
The grinch.
This is where they have camp Hemnessey in Desperate Housewives.
Animal actor-show.
Blues brother-show.
Another show.
Our motel.
Hawaii - day 8
Our last day in Hawaii!
We didn't have the weathergods on our side in the morning, but it can change in two minutes. And it did.
It's often bad weather in the mornings.
Caution: beware of falling coconuts and fronds.
We found another paradise here.
And we were this happy!
Our last meal.
The airport looked more like someone's livingroom.
The postcards I sent.
Hawaii - day 7
Breakfast-view.
The ocean ahead.
After some sunbathing we went back to the hotel for FANCY, cheap food. Hotdogs and sandwiches...
The pool outside our balcony.
Then we went for a walk.
Thai restaurant in Hilo.
Pretty girls...
Someone is hiding...
Hawaii - day 6
Hawaii - day 5
We started the day by walking to rainbow falls. Everyone said we needed a car to get there, but then we got mad, because everybody said we needed a car to go anywhere, so we decided to walk anyway, we googled the distance and it didn't seem too far.
The picture is of an hawaiian school on the way.
We were going up, on a mountain or something and it was really hard, but fun!
We finally made it up to the top ;)
Here is the fall. Not impressive, but a nice little adventure to get to!
It is still pretty early in the morning and very hot already!
On our way back.
Then we took a bus to Carlsmith beachpark.
This was the nicest place on our visit in Hawaii.
The water is absolutely clear and the pictures doesn't tell you at all about how it really looked.
These cliffs were burning hot!!
Seaturtle!!
They were so close you could touch them and swim with them.
We swam to the island, one at the time.
Me on the island.
We bought greena and yellow bananas at hilo's farmers market. We thought it could be fun to try something new, applebananas, but they turned out to be just green bananas - tasting wood, definitely not ready to be eaten.
This was Julia's favorite night of the whole trip! We talked about a real steak, and here she had it. She told me to remind her about this steak for a long time afterwards - how happy she was :)
Hawaii - day 4
Breakfast-time!
Silly-time!
Coconut.
A beachpark close to our hotel.
The water is completely clear.
But the ground could be darker....
We went for a walk!
This is where we saw seaturtles for the first time, and we had no idea they lived here.
She jumped on a rock had was in pain for the rest of that day ;)
Had some shaved ice on our way home.
Our fancy dinner!
But it was truely good!
Hawaii - day 3
Good morning, Hawaii!
We took the bus to the other side of the island.
Tired after a long hot day in the sun.
Our friend on the way home, huge!!
Hawaii - day 2
Woke up early, so we watched the sunrise.
The view from our balcony.
The view from our balcony.
A trip into Hilo.
The simple breakfast at the hotel.
We were pretty down here the first day - hawaii didn't look at all as we expected it to, so it felt hopeless, but it got better!
The breakfast restaurant. You don't know if you are inside or outside.
View to the sea from the restaurant. Our hotelroom is to the right, almost were the building ends.
We realized this island was no surfing-island so we had to do that inside......
Ready for some food.
It was better than it looked!
Uncle Billy's general store.
Ice cream dessert.
Hawaii - day 1
We arrived to Hawaii at night.
This is what our room looked like :)
Venice beach & Hollywood
A gift we got from Brian our last day at the Trek. He signed them with the swedish words we taught him - häftig and helvete. We had to throw them away, beacuse we wanted to travel light, but atleast I took a pic of it to remember!
This was the first day after the trek and today we met Emelie and Louise to go to Venice beach.
A streetshow with people from the audience.
That little kid was so cool! Quiet, but cool.
This is one of the wierdest places I have ever visited. Wierd people and wierd things!
The black guy is completely covered with piercings!
Yes, the cars could look like this here ;)
We found a cozy restaurant.
No kidding, the best chickenburger EVER!
One of these guys had a cat on his shoulder while he was skateboarding.
Back in hollywood.
MJ.
The hollywood-sign.
The hollywoodsign in the background.
Pizza at the California Kitchen!
