Monterey Day 4/ Santa Monica Day 1 & 2 California
By Max
10/31/22
On the weekends, I get less time to write because I usually write during school time, and on the weekends, we just wake up, eat breakfast, and go. On Saturday, we woke up, then hit the road. We drove through Big Sur and stopped at a few places. We stopped by the Bixby bridge, made in 1932. We also stopped for lunch at Nepenthe. I got their signature Ambrosia burger. It has Big Mac sauce but was made before the Big Mac. After lunch, we tried a telephone booth that we saw, and I’m pretty sure that it would’ve worked, but we didn’t have change to use it. We drove to a redwood forest on highway one. We saw the biggest redwood there, the Colonial Tree. We drove out of the park and to a trail that went through the redwood forest. We got to touch the trees. I felt like an ant. We crossed a river that had man-made lumps for us to cross the river. We got back to the car and drove to the Julia Pfeifer waterfall. Alisa and my dad stayed in the car because Alisa was sleeping. It must be tiring for a 5-year-old to keep up with us! The waterfall was smaller than I thought, but it was cool! We went back to the car and drove for a couple hours and were planning on going all the way to Santa Monica, but there was a beach full of elephant seals, so we stopped. The way they moved was so funny. They basically were doing the worm. They went surprisingly fast. We drove the rest of the way to Santa Monica with only 2 gas station stops. Once we got to the hotel, we checked in, then went to a place called Lobster. I got macaroni and cheese with lobster in it. We went back to the hotel and went to sleep.
SANTA MONICA DAY 2
On October 30th, we woke up, then ate breakfast, then went to the beach. It was huge! We touched the ocean, then went back to the pool. We swam for a little while, then went back to the room. We changed, then drove to LA. We first saw the Hollywood sign. We got fruit at a fresh fruit vendor. We watched him cut it. We drove to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I didn’t see anyone that I know of, but it was still cool. We stopped at the Guinness world record building and walked through it and did activities. I got 300+ drum hits in 30 seconds. My dad got 350. We kept walking and I saw a basketball game that was fun. We left and went to the wax museum. It was cool, but they needed to clothe the statues more. We walked back to the car, and on the way got more fruit. We drove to the Beverly Hills Hotel and tried to get lunch, but the wait was too long. We drove into Beverly Hills and got dinner at Spago. We saw protesters that were protesting Dior’s leather. We also saw a lot of expensive cars, Ferraris, McLarens, Bentleys, Lamborghini Uruses, and even an Aventador! It was crazy. Dinner was great. I got duck. We also got free cookies from the nice pastry chef. Instead of chocolate chip, they had a thin plate of chocolate in the middle. They were amazing. We then went to the Griffith observatory and saw Saturn through a super powerful telescope. It looked like a picture! The observatory was cool. We also saw the moon through a different telescope. We could only see half because it wasn’t a full moon. There was so much detail that we could see a lot of craters. We went back to the hotel and that wad the end on that day.
