Santa Barbara and Home Time

Last day of our holiday before heading back to the real world. Booo!

We left Anaheim early as were were heading up the coast to Santa Barbara.
We drove there via the Hollywood Sign as we missed it the first time we were in Hollywood.

Santa Barbara was a nice place. We bought adapters for the plane so we could use proper headphones on the flight home and had tasty tasty Vietnamese soup for lunch (it calmed the America Belly for a while).

BUT

After that was the real reason we drove all the way through the smog to Santa Barbara. THE AGGROLITES! They played on the beach and there were only a few people there. being one of my favourite bands and because they played so well I broke my "Owen doesn't dance" rule for this one off performance. It was freaking brilliant.

Straight after they finished their set by playing their version of Don't Let Me Down by The Beatles, we raced back to the car and gunned it down the freeway back to LAX for our (very full) flight home.

A tear was shed on takeoff in memory of all the good times I had on my trip, but in the back of my mind was the foundations of my next overseas trip being built...

Thanks to all the people we hung out with, met, had wicked adventures with etc and so forth, you guys really made the trip. I made a bunch of new friends and a million new memories to go with them.

Big ups especially to Justin and Sarah Larson, who not only were our reason for travelling to the USA, but looked after us and we had the best time with. You guys are brilliant and your wedding was the most fun/best laugh I'd had in a very long time!

Thanks :)