For all of you who don't know why I chose this title, just make sure to check this one. This post goes out to my dearest Josie!
I've stood up at 9 this morning, made again some sweet sweet pancakes and met the guy from holland again while eating them. He was about to leave the hostel for another one in Santa Monica. So I took the opportunity and went with him. We took the bus, which is a lot cheaper than in Germany. You pay 0.75$ for a long long way, you even can get to downtown for a buck I think. It took 15 minutes to get to an almost brand new city I thought. Santa Monica is the way more clean and less busy than Venice, cause Venice is like rushhour all day. I was really impressed about the beauty of this LA-District. We went directly to Santa Monica Hostel to check him in, and it looks the way cleaner and tidier than my one right now and it's even 4 bucks cheaper each night. So I may move to it the next days...who knows? Who cares?:-)
So we went to the 3rd Promenade, which is a street with lots of shops and musicians. One of them did a great show with techno beats and his violin. He was awesome! I went to a lot of shops, Quicksilver, Apple Store and finally the Rip Curl store. Everything is a lot cheaper than in Germany, you pay 20$ for a Rip Curl Shirt, which is 14 Euros, in Germany you'd probably pay more than double of the price. So I went for a nice new shirt and slippers, my first shopping experience abroad;-) I like it! After our little shopping trip we went down to the famous Ocean Avenue! It felt really really good to be there, unfortunately my Ipod wasn't filled with Yellowcard, so I couldn't listen to the song while being there...but who cares! From the Ocean Ave it's only a "stone-throw" to the Santa Monica Pier, which actually is very very nice.
Not because of these lousy attractions, because of the nice wooden floor your walking on and the fresh sea breeze. The funny thing I didn't know about the pier, that there is a Bubba Gump Store on it! We couldn't trust our eyes, both
remembering the movie Forest Gump, so we went in there and asked a kind lady which of both was first, movie or store at the pier. Like we both guessed the movie was first! The pier actually wasn't that crowded like I expected on Labor Day, but I think everyone went down to the beach, cause weather was great again. So we walked to the end of the pier, seamed by a lot of anglers, and looked at all of the little shops, trying to sell senseless "rumsh". After a short visit at one of the oldest carousels (i think), which was built in 1914 we went back to city centre to catch something to eat. 
After a pizza slice we went again to some stores, and guess what?! Theres a store which sells baseballcaps and nothing more! It's like heaven, I surely will make it back to it and buy a lot of new caps (just for me, not for you Gobo Go Bob! Just kiddin!) I wanted to go to the beach once more today, so I left Santa Monica and went back to Venice. Before hitting the water I made some spaghetti aglio-oglio to smell nice for my salty ocean;-) The beach was, like I expected, crowded, but with a width of over 30 meters you got a lot of space to lay down. I put my towel to the sand, layed on it and let the sun do its' rest while listening to The Ataris. After a few minutes I went into the great sea to bodysurf again, and do you know what's the funny thing about the people at the beach? All of these Mexicans go into the water fully dressed!!! What the fuck??? Why??? I have no clue. Jeans, Shirts, who cares...the only thing they don't put off are their shoes and socks, which actually would look funny as hell if they'd wear socks while swimming beside you.Back home in hostel there was a huge Labor-Day-Barbecue waiting for all guests. I was looking forward to it the whole day, cause Carl, a big black guy, promised me that they got a lot of vegetarian stuff too. They had it, but it was tasting like sh***, completely burned and not flavored in any way....but what are you suposed to do. "Hold your gosh and put it in";-)
So now I'm stitting here again, on my lovely couch in the hostel lounge, writin to you and expecting my first day of work...
I'll let you know how it was like tomorrow.Now: Checking used surfboards, shipping prices to Germany and watching another episode of NC.
Todays ride is for Bruce, a red lightning called "Electra"...That's for you my dear!!!
See you tomorrow!
Good night!
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