We had all of day three to do whatever we had liked especially since our plane to Melbourne didn’t leave until 11:30 that night. We planned on having a relaxed beach day in Santa Monica. We packed up all our suitcases so the hotel could store them downstairs for the day. We headed downtown for breakfast at Maria’s Cafe again (we fell in love with their Breakfast) and then headed to Santa Monica. Again, the freeway was packed and took some extra time to get there. We arrived at roughly 10:00 in the morning and the beach was beginning to get busy already. The beach was amazingly beautiful and very big. It was very clean as well. The Pier is a Los Angeles landmark and is apparently the final stop for Route 66. The pier was very busy with fishermen, little shops, food, and Pacific Park is located on the Pier, which is a mini amusement park.
We had noticed there were many bike rental places along the beach so we decided to rent some bikes as the beach has a bike trail all along the beach. It is quite a popular trial with lanes for bikes and pedestrians. People rollerblade, run, walk, and skateboard along this trial and it was pretty busy. We biked for a couple hours then ate lunch. After lunch we played on some of the beach equipment. Many people come to the beach to work out so along the beach there were many bars, ropes, rings to swing on etc. There were even tight ropes! After monkey-ing around for a bit we found a spot along the beach and relaxed by the water for a few hours. The sun was pretty hot and noticed we were getting a little red so we decided to get dressed and do some more touring. Venice beach or Muscle Beach, connects to the beach at Santa Monica Pier and there are tonnes of little shops along this beach. It was kind of like a boardwalk. We didn’t buy anything but it was very fun to look around.
We returned the bikes not too long after and headed back to the hotel so we could drop off our car and hitch a taxi to the airport. Before arriving at the hotel we stopped at a Mexican restaurant for dinner- which didn’t settle too well in my stomach but overall we really enjoyed the time in Los Angeles and loved the weather. We felt like the three days was enough time to experience it and was a fun mini vacation. We arrived at the airport at about 8:30 so we had tonnes of time until our plane left. At about 10:45 we began to board the plane for the 15 hours to Melbourne, Australia!
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| This beach was very nice! |
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| My sweet ride for the day! |
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| The Pacific Park located in the Pier |
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