Hi from Los Angeles

Yay, we made it! A very uneventful flight which reminded us how much we hate long distance flying and trying to sleep. We are just loving being here. We landed to gorgeous blue skies with no clouds and it is like that again today with temps around the 25 mark. Just perfect. So cool to catch up with everyone and have a few laughs. Kathryn came and picked us up in the new truck from the airport. Man that is some machine. I will show you some pics later, Andy has just popped up the road and the camera is in the truck.

We really just cruised yesterday and reacquainted ourselves with a few stores. We forgot to bring a converter with us so we could plug in and recharge all our electrical bits, so that was number one on the list of things to get hold of. Tried a few stores yesterday but it wasn't until this morning we were able to find one. Found a new electrical store which was twice the size of our old favourite - BestBuys. We spent ages in there just looking.

First up this morning Andy, Grant and Mike got stuck in and ripped off the old exhaust system and replaced it with the new corsa one. Man, I thought the truck sounded pretty good anyway, but you should hear it now - we sure won't be going anywhere and just sneaking in.

Once this was all installed there were quite a few test runs to make sure they could hear the difference properly and then we headed out for lunch and a touch of shopping at the mall. I managed to get into the handbag shop and scored myself a gorgeous handbag. We had Mike, Grant and his two boys with us too and they were not interested in looking at what Kathryn and I wanted to, so didn't get too much of a chance to have a decent look round.

Off our for dinner now so will post some pics a bit later.