LA to NYC - Santa Monica what $70 a night gets you + eats + OMG - ing ...

It was like being in a movie ...

the view from our hotel ...

started me on my OMG - ing ...

we'd driven down Santa Monica Boulevard ...

along Route 66 ...

with the old songs playing in my head ...

then ...

to walk in to this lavishness ...

sent my head and heart spinning yet again ...

look what $70 a night got us ...

at the historic Georgian Hotel ...

a deco touch of old Hollywood ...

looking toward Santa Monica Pier ...

and the first solar driven ferris wheel ...

is this really happening to me?

Barneys Beanery's breakfast ...

$12.00 for us both was excellent ...

we could hear the hub caps spinning to the side walk ...

is this really happening to me?

Finding these doors prompted yet another OMG moment ...

inside was Anthropologie ...

I was gone ...

much Oooo-ing, Aaaaa-ing, drooling, unbelieving ...

then to Sepphora where we had our faces 'done' ...

what start!

Hello from Santa Monica LA, USA, where I'm gobsmacked + first post out of whack ....

LESTUDE number plate in Rodeo drive taken from the hop on hop off tour bus.. 

Bear with me Darlings on the posts ....

.like everything in the last four days ...

I'm wayyyyy, wayyy out of my comfort zone!

 

Weather is so cold we've had to buy warmer clothes ...

BUT ...

OMG everything is so  cheap ...

food, clothes, water, you name it ...

I'll need my jaw wired ...

I'm constantly going :-O

Bottled water $1 everywhere ...

two breakfasts + drinks $12.00 ...

  the list in endless ...

Plus so many other amazing things I'll post once I mater this netbook and WiFi ...

Hey too I made it to the People's Choice line up for the blogger awards ...

I need some voting from you please ..

Yep ... will learn how to post about that soon too.

Love Youse All ...

back soon,

we're off to my first LA flea ... OMG!!!!!

Plastic in birds guts = Australian Flesh Footed Shearwaters = Frogpondsrock ...

I was about to do my Sunday Selections post but was mortified when I saw Kim's story ...

This plastic you can see in the photo came out of the stomachs of three  Australian Flesh Footed Shearwaters on Lord Howe Island ...

a Google search indicates there's a decline in the birds ... no wonder!

This puts a new light on my scrounging beach glass on Santa Monica beach escapade ... like, what else am I going to find?

Look closely ... even an old Penfolds bottle cap ... what else can you see?

Further to my above post :::
Kim tells me one of the worst plastic finds are the little clips that hold bought socks together.


Wouldn't it make a great school project for kids to collect and recycle those horrid little things?


If you have school age kids who might be interested in running something similar I'd love to hear from you via the comments section here.


People power is a wonderful thing!!