Welcome to L.A

Wow, we arrived in L.A last night and drove for an hour out to Anaheim. This place is amazing - Disneyland rules out here and everything just feels so ‘Disney’. Jo was singing like a typical Disney movie “la la la la la” in the shuttle bus when we started to drive through Disneyland.

Last couple of days we were in Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii with Uncle Brian and Kazemaru. Our objective there was to find a suitable property for their future home to settle down together and for them to be able to run retreats from this home. Well Praise God – we found the right place just in the nick of time. It is a great property of 12.3 acres with views of the ocean, its own private stream and a working rambutan orchard. The house was very well looked after with 3 bedrooms 2 bathrooms upstair and a whole area downstairs that can be converted into another 2 bedroom apartment. Whilst Brian and Kazemaru aren’t there they can rent it out which will cover most of their holding costs. So all in all a great investment! We managed to sign on the 11th hour with us getting contracts to the seller for him to sign, with all the terms & price that we wanted. I must say it was one of the smoothest real estate transactions that I have ever been involved in.

It was great catching up with Uncle Brian and meeting his fiancé Kazemaru. They are both lovely together and we are looking forward to spending more time with them in the future. Well now they have this place on the Big Island – Im sure Jo and I will be saving our pennies every year to see how we can get back.

The Big Island is not a place for the typical tourist, it is very chill and relax and a place to just ‘be’. The natural beauty there was astounding. When I had a swim near Hilo bay, a turtle came swimming beside me and he let me stratch his shell and we were just hanging in the water for about 5 min – before some Japanese tourist came splashing out – then he was off in a flash.

Here in LA, we are going to get out an explore the city and obviously run around like little kids at Disneyland and Universal Studios.

We will keep you posted.

To view heaps of pics of our trip go to jo's myspace www.myspace.com/mee_too_you (click 'pics' just underneath the photo of Jo)