Day 37 - the day there was no sun in LA

18th August 2013

We got up and ready to catch some rays on the beach, expecting the same weather as yesterday. First stop was breakfast. We both had frittatas at the cutest little café on Montana.

Still no sun! We walked all the way down to the beach and you could barely see the sea for the fog. We decided to take the opportunity to walk to Venice boardwalk, about a mile and a half down the beach. We passed yesterday's MJ on muscle beach (and ran) ha. Venice boardwalk was a bit crazy, but almost as we expected (except the lack of sun). In all honesty it was less artsy and more hobo-y than I thought it would be. Lots of energy though, and impossible to take a good picture for all the people and as you're not allowed to get any of the art stalls on a photo without paying donations.

There were eccentrics galore and musicians trying to force their CDs Uni your hands. One guy was promoting reggae for kids with Incy wincy spider Marley-style playing from his boom box. He also promoted multiplication rap for teenagers which Loz did a marvellous example of.

There are lots of sports going on. There is another muscle beach there which, rather than a beach, is a gated gym where Schwarzenegger used to train. There was a female body builder there whom everyone was both shocked and amused by. We later found out she was actually famous (obviously we don't know much about body building).

We also watched some basketball, skateboarding (which was mainly just kids) and people who spin in huge hula hoops. I wish I knew what it was called, whoops!

We then headed back to the pier as there's a great stretch of restaurants on the ocean front and we definitely didn't fancy anything at Venice!

I had a gorgeous edamame falafel pita which came with the cutest little individual ketchup bottle.

Lauren obviously had a steak salad. We then shared a Nutella bread pudding which was heaven.

We then headed up to third street promenade which is where all the shops are. We had a huge Urban Outfitters sesh and I finally narrowed it down to 2 dresses got into the queue to pay and realised I didn't have my purse! Nightmare! Regardless, we carried on window shopping but shops were shutting already so we headed home for another early night watching NCIS. Addicted to cheesy American crime dramas. Lots of love xxxxxx