Haven't really done a lot since my last post, just been doing a lot of shopping and going to see bands.

Today is thanksgiving so if we can find any supermarkets which are open we will make lunch/dinner.

Tomorrow we go back home again and I am devastated. I can't stand the thought of going back to my crummy job and doing everything I was doing before. It is time for a change!

So LA is crazy! I was hating it when I first got here but it is growing on me. At first it just reminded me of a big King's Cross but as I am exploring more I can see that it isn't as bad as I first thought.

We are staying on Sunset Boulevard at the moment just around the corner from Kat Von D's tattoo studio. We went and did some shopping on Melrose yesterday and saw some really cool concept stores then in the evening we went to a rad venue called the Knitting Factory and saw the Aka's and then the Dickies 30th anniversary show. The Dickies were just so great, they really got in to if for men their age and it was just really fun!

Today we had breakfast at this awesome vegan place just up the road from where we are staying and it was pretty cheap which was even better, some of the best mock chicken I have ever had, with full bellies we went to Hot Topic where I am eyeing off some tartan jeans and caught a movie at Mann's Chinese Theatre. American Gangster was a really good, intense movie, Denzel Washington always genius.

Vegas to San Fran to San Simeon and Beyond!

So since my last blog I have been all over the place! I will go through everything in order...

The drive to Vegas was great, we had our big black 300c and stopped at fashion outlets along the way. By the time we arrived it was night time so it was just amazing looking. We spent our days shopping, exploring the inside of the casinos, going to shows and eating. The Titanic exhibition we saw was great, it had lots of artefacts which have been removed from the boat. And the liberace museum was just crazy, there was a mirrorball car!

From Vegas we flew to San Francisco, it was raining and cold the first day we got there so we just went to a mall and did some more shopping. The next day we went to Haight street where we spent some serious money, Amoeba records was there, the store was so big there were shopping baskets! On another day we ventured out to Gilman Street in Berkeley where the punk revival started and all though no one was around it was just awesome, we caught the daly city train back in to town. Alcatraz was up another day which was a really cool thing to see, they didn't know which cell Al Capone had been in though.

San Francisco is a really nice city with beautiful architecture but there are a lot of crazy and homeless people there which gets a bit much sometimes.

So now I am writing from San Simeon, we arrived here last night. The drive down highway 101 to the 1 was awesome! We passed a beach where the seals come in to rest and watched them laying on the beach and we saw some squirrels playing in the carpark! They were so cute!

Now we are heading up to Hearst Castle and then down the LA.

San Diego, it's German for a whale's vagina.

So we safely departed Mexico and are now safe and cold in San Diego.

The journey home from Mexico was very laborious, it took 3 flights, one of which we didn't even know about. We were teriffied when we landed somewhere that was just trees and mountains, we couldn't ask the flight attendants what was happening because we didn't know enough Spanish! It turned out it was just a stop over for refuelling in Los Cabos which is on the tip of Baja California. It looks like a great place for a relaxing few days on the beach.

Haven't really done much since we arrived here, we saw a lithium picnic exhibition yesterday that had a few nice prints in it.

Went to an outlet store today and I bought heaps of awesome make up really cheap. Just hanging out at the new macbeth office while Dan is doing some work.

Going to Seaworld tomorrow and seeing the Falcon in the evening.

Oaxaca Post 2

For the last couple of days we haven't really done a lot of specific things, rather a lot of shopping and wandering around the city. We have bought so many skull things its not funny! On the evening of the 31st the owners of our hotel Francico and Marina gave us a traditional dinner and explained a lot of the meanings behind the Dia Los Muertos Festival. We drank Mezcal (I only had a sip) and ate chicken and mole tamales.

After dinner Francisco took us to the Xoxocitlan cemetary, he gave us flowers to put on the abandoned graves. It was a very weird experience being at the cemetary, it was not as fun as I expected it to be and I felt like I was being very intrusive being there. It was really sad at one point as I passed a grave which had a sand carpet of Winnie the Pooh, it was a childs grave and the family around it was crying.

We then went to the old Xoxocitlan cemetary which had a much better vibe as there was not as many people there it was much more serene. There was the remains of an old church and there was a band playing in it and singing and it was amazing.

Yesterday we went to Santo Domingo De Guzman a church which is over 500 years old and absolutely massive, I think it took us about 3 hours to walk around it. Then I went and got a hot stone massage for $50au!

Last night we went and saw the folkloric ballet of Oaxaca perform the ballet of the dead. There were fireworks going off everwhere and a bush caught on fire next to the church!

I am so sad as this is my last full day in Oaxaca and I have been feeling a bit sick for the last 24 hours. I hope I can pull myself together enough to get through today!