Stop 1-LA... Would you like a lawyer with your coffee?

Hello dear friends and family,

I have decided to start a blog... Partly so you can see what's happening in the world of Mary over the next 4 months... Partly so i don't forget what I've done.

So it's xmas day... and has been for the last 39 hours and 15mins. I flew out of Adelaide at 7.30 this morning and arrived in LA at 7.30 this morning... Longest xmas ever.

After the usual American customs bull crap I managed to get this awesome shuttle driver from Kenya. He basically bitched about how crap the people in LA were and how they weren't party because they were too wrapped up in themselves and in money, he was rad. If I were here for longer I totally would have partied with him. We drove past a coffee shop on Lincoln Blvd called 'Legal Grind' advertising 'coffee and counsel'... I must be in the USA.

When I got to the hostel and checked in I walked into my dorm room and into a 50something woman and a Chinese girl in an intense prayer session... It was freaky... I wasnt even there for the beginning and it went for about half an hour after I got there (all up, about and hour). It was really depressing stuff. There was this Aussie girl in the bunk above me who secretly motioned me to be quiet and pulled a 'wtf' face... Turns out the 50 something was a Jehovah's witness from the mid west and the chinese girl was too polite to back out of getting into this prayer thing. Thankfully, both have left... The woman was apparently a total bitch and had told the aussie to be quiet so she could pray. Not sure if I could have handled any more religious freaks invading my room.

Slept most of the day. Went out before to get food and have a walk. Santa Monica is nice but the food is shit and over priced... There were NO 7/11's which broke my heart... Gonna walk to Venice Beach in the morning before I check out. But no real desire to ever come back to LA, its boring and lame.

Off to mexico tomorrow. Grady should be asleep in our hostel when I get in... very excited!!!