Los Angeles, CA, USA, 30/12-06-1/1-07

I woke up the 30'th with a major cold and a bad throat. I think it has been a bit to cold for me here in Los Angeles after I have been used to around 30 degrees celcius the last two weeks. I had a relaxing day at Erlend and Beth's place, watering some flowers and feeding the fishes and the cat and went down to the local pharmacy. There I tried to get hold of something that could help me fight my cold. The first attempt ending up with me buying something that turned out to be pills against allergy after recommandations from one of the people working there. Maybe my English is much worse than I thought or maybe the English of the Chinese person that worked there was not the best. I went down there again and tried to explain that I had gotten wrong medicine which did not lead to anything except that the Chinese told me to go home and be patient. I looked around and found something that looked similar to what I was looking for, went home again turned on the television and waited for Erlend and Beth. Erlend and Beth arrived quite late and we did not stay up very long before we vent to bed.

The next day was New Years Eve. We went to the Griffith Park for a walk and later some friends of Erlend and Beth came over. Naturally to New Years Eve belongs a party. And now we are talking party. We took a taxi down to a gym where it was a kind of party the contryside boy from Norway have never exerienced before. Some were dressed up, some were dressed in funny outfit (as our own smurfman) and some was almost without clothes. Of the last group were people basically just wearing their underwear. Maybe they had to leave their home in a hurry, just after showering, I do not know, but a fun place and an experience for life it was. The music at the place was loud, so after a while I just had to stuff some paper in my ears to not scare the whit out of my poor little brain. It must have looked quite foolish, but my god how much better it was afterwards.

To get hold of a taxi at New Years Eve in Los Angeles can maybe be compared with finding life at our moon. But Erlend managed to get one and we got home around 5'ish and went to bed. The first day in the new year have therefore been a quiet day in front of the television.

Happy New Year!!!

For those that have tried to reach me by phone, my phone does not work here. I will try to see If I can find a new phone tomorrow.