LA and then back up to San Fran... 8/9th June

After a lovely long journey down to the land of 90210, the Hills, the O.C and Laguna Beach (we definitely saw Heidi and Spencer’s house somewhere among the posh digs) we arrived in Long Beach, LA (baby), blaring out some Gangster Beats from the ‘yummy mummy’ maroon saloon tour bus in true Hollywood style. Aiiight. Where my homies at. We pulled up at ‘Di Piazzas’, our next venue, only to find that they had messed up the dates and had us down for the next evening. What was our replacement I hear you cry? A classy, elegant, tasteful…comedy strip show. So…what to do with a free evening in LA? SUSHI of course! We realised quite suddenly that it was Jono’s last evening with us (very sad) and so we had a meaningful last supper with buckets of the fishy stuff (and some sort of worm stew that almost wriggled in the bucket). The next morning we said our goodbyes with sleepy hugs in the motel, and Ollie drove Jono to the airport. When he came back, we were ready to roll on the mammoth drive ahead of us, all the way back to San Francisco. After quickly refuelling with pastries larger than our heads from an excellent Mexican Bakery, (Immie had two) we set off on the freeway, only to find that it was closed! 2 hours later we were still in LA and beginning to panic just a little…but managed to still make time to visit Venice beach, taking a lot of pictures by the lifeguard hut pretending we were Marissa Cooper from the O.C when she goes up there to have a little cry in almost every episode. We then entered the most boring road in the whole of the world. It was straight for about 300 miles! We could see Ollie’s eye twitching as he slowly turned insane, and Immie’s repetitive rehearsing of ‘What Can I Do’ by the Corrs on the mandolin didn’t help matters. After 9 hours, 2 twilight CD’s (Ollie forced us to put them on) and a Carl Jr’s burger, we arrived in the Union Room at San Francisco, to go straight onstage. The gig was good and we met the ‘Bay City Luv’ boys, a vocal harmony group who came to watch our show after jamming on a street corner.