Day 26 - Los Angeles

Up early this morning much to Caitlin's disgust and off we went to Santa Monica to walk along the pier.  We drove right on to the pier to start our walk which was a bit scary - lots of creaks and groans! The pier was full of people and things to do. There was Pacific Park, the amusement park with a big Ferris wheel, an arcade hall, lots of souvenir stalls and right at the end a sea lion swimming around for our entertainment.

It was really hot so we went to the beach and the boys had a swim (I'm not allowed yet 😩). The beach was huge and beautiful- white sand!!

We then went down to Venice Beach and walked along the jetty before heading back to get organised for the opening ceremony of the World Police & Firefighters Games.

This went for a really, really long time!! It was a bit like the Olympics and pretty cool watching all of the teams come out in their countries. There were fireworks and Brian McKnight sang the American national anthem and the helicopters flew over. And then there were lots (& lots of speeches!).

Stopped on the way home for Josh to get the next Harry Potter book at the most awesome bookstore I've ever been in. It's a shame  it was late as I could have spent ages in there. The desk was built  up out of books, there were little nooks and crannies and vaults with books in, the upstairs was a cool horror section with lounges everywhere for people to read. And they sold new & second hand so picked up a couple of Stephen King for me too!