We started this day with an amazing breakfast at the Holiday Inn; at 8 am we rolled off towards downtown LA. It took us quite a while to get there because of bad traffic, but finally the famous Hollywood sign appeared on the horizon. 

Hollywood Boulevard was actually a lot smaller and less spectacular than everybody expected but it was still a great experience. On the sidewalk on both sides of the street there were the famous stars with all the celebrities’ names on them. We had an hour to walk around the streets, take lots of pictures and buy a bunch of souvenirs. Another highlight was the hand and footprints of various actors and actresses in front of the Chinese Theatre.  Robert Pattison’s feet are huge! 

Later we all met and went to Madam Tussaud’s wax figure museum. It was amazing how real all the celebrities seemed like they might jump out and scare you to death any second. Meeting stars like Leonardo di Caprio or sport legends like Tiger Woods was one of the highlights of this day. Hollywood Boulevard was definitely worth a visit! 

Around noon the whole group took off in the bus and we drove for around 1 ½ hours to get to Huntington Beach. 

At the time we got there, the clouds from the early morning were gone and the weather was just awesome! Everybody changed into their bathing suits, put sunscreen on and went down to the Pacific to swim and/or play Frisbee; and the lazy ones just laid down to tan their bodies. At that time the flood came in and the waves got bigger and bigger, making it very difficult to not get wet above your knees. But at one point nobody cared anymore and jumped right into them. After we got out some of us went into town to eat lunch. With new energy most of us picked up the Frisbee again. Personally, I did nothing else until it was meeting time when we went back to the bus to finish the day at the Italian restaurant “Buca di Beppo”. It was funny to watch Mati get all excited  to finally eat “real” bread from her home country again! And after this delicious journey to Italy, we were ready to head back to the hotel.

Written by Marley and Sebastian from Germany