US tour day one

US TRIP DAY #1

We congregated at the airport in Sydney at 5.30pm with various loved ones for a beer and goodbyes before check in.
The lovely virgin staff ‘neglected’ to add up our bag weights correctly and we were ready to go.
With good mate chippy in tow we strolled about the spanking new plane and settled in for the ride. If someone can explain how Robbie ended up with thre seats to himself we’d love to know. Afew valiums later we were landing at LAX and reday for customs torture…
    Except there wasn’t any, just a friendly customs guy guessing who did what in the band and heckling us as we walked through, no bag checks, no visa questions, nothing.
    We met a kiwi band out the front who are also staying at the Beverly Laurel (they popped over for altar boys later) along with us, there’s also Red Riders and Mary and Glenn from the Aussie BBQ here too.
After a scenic stop motion drive in LA traffic ast all the oil derricks we checked in, had showers and headed down to Swingers diner for food, fucking good food too.
    Then it was partay time at the Rainbow where we met a guy called Chester, Mo chatted to Taime from Faster Pussycat and we found MORE Australian friends from Sydney. After that we skipped over to the Viper Room for a couple more drinks (these places are tiny by the way)
    Oscar, chippy and I headed home and left Mo and Robbie to their own devices, they got home eventually and proceeded to kill us with snoring and other bodily functions. Now I’m off to get a hire car and work out driving on the wrong side of the road

Till hopefully tomorrow if I remember