Hollywhat the fuck

We got a shuttle bus from LAX, which was t-shirt weather when we arrived, with about 5 other people. One was a 7 yr old Australian girl called Madisson (with two "s"s) who targeted Kerri and told her she'd already been to Hollywood about 5 times. You could sense kerris internal monologue was saying "shut the fuck up you little brat I just want to look out the window" and I was pretending to be asleep. we dropped madisson off at the beverly hilton, which is where whitney houston died in the bath and where they host the golden globes.

We got to our hostel and was met by the most unenthusiastic man in the world on reception, who we now think is constantly smacked off his tits, and went to our room. We couldn't tell which beds were free and there was stuff everywhere and the beds looked like the previous person had just left. I decided the best way to view it was like a bed at a house party, where you don't know whose it is and don't care, you're just fucked and need sleep. Kerri whipped out the trusty silk sleeping bag liner. Our roommate (singular) returned -a Japanese girl who had taken over the whole 4 other beds and floor. There was a sweet bap in a wrapper on my bed too. I think that belonged to her. She was rank, she actually left a trail of blood from the bathroom to the room.

We went out and felt sketched out right away, hobos everywhere, shady guys who stopped to look at us, not many people around at all and groups of Latinos like Touco from BB.

Had some drinks at a bar, chatted to a bouncer from Colombia for a while and then got chips and came home.

In the daylight it was much better! Tourists, sunshine, glitter, characters from films, Ben stiller was here doing a hand and footprint for the walk of fame, we had breakfast at Snow White cafe and then did a tour to see the Hollywood sign and the houses of a few celebs...Nicole Richie, Jason Statham and Laurence Fishbourne.

Hollywood is weird. It's not what we thought it'd be. I guess if you're here for longer than 1 day you'd visit nearby beaches and towns but we just saw Hollywood and it's quite sickly... The grandeur of the celebrity status shouldering endless homeless people and crack heads. It's also pretty small! The walk of fame is funny though, even Lassie has a star!

In NYC we got told by a couple from Doncaster to avoid downtown LA, especially a place called skidrow where there's 6000 homeless people piled on top of each other on a 2 mile strip. Not sure where it is...we're coming back to LA after San Fran so maybe we'll come accross it.

We feel like its good prep for Vegas because we imagine that's going to be next level bizarre!!

We're taking the bus to San Francisco tomorrow! Well excited! Have heard so many good things....