Jo and Sarb's Year Off

Friday, June 22, 2007

Day 350 (Fri 22 June) - Simi Valley, Los Angeles

Today we continued on our jolly and went for a drive round Beverley Hills, stopping off at Rodeo drive.

Had fun drive and walk around the shops. To be honest, apart from the sunshine, Sarb couldn't see what the fuss was about ( [1], [2]).

Anyway, headed over to a beach area where we treated ourselves to a hotdog and Coke. Well we are in the US after all. Then headed on over to Venice Beach to watch the muscly chaps lift loads of weights and generally admire themselves in the mirrors.

Upon leaving Venice Beach we were just about to pull out of our parking slot when a whacking great 4x4 pulled in alongside us. All well and good but we heard an almighty crunch as he did so.

There followed a comedy moment where Jo wanted to jump out of the car immediately and presumably wanted to rugby tackle the guy driving in case he wanted to drive off. Whilst Sarb, appreciating that he was in a country where carrying arms is pretty much mandatory, that he was in a hire car and perhaps we should gather our paperwork together first, decided to play it a little cooler. Anyway, we got of the car and soon were engaged in a friendly chat with the driver. Luckily the damage sounded alot worse than it looked.

Armed with our paperwork we worked out what we needed from the apologetic driver and were soon on our way.

Drove off to a beautiful little area littered with marina's and flash boats. Although Sarb admired what he'd seen of the US he was a little unsure as to their methods of bait fishing.

Had a wonderful day in beautiful sunshine.

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