Jase & Reens Excellent Adventure

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18th July

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29th > 31st July

Vatican City
22nd July

Greece
25th > 28th July

Austria
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Venice Beach & Hollywood

Posted: Thursday, April 27 11:23 PM by Jase

[Photo Journal of Venice Beach, Hollywood & the Getty Center - 47 entries]

[Photo Gallery of Jason's Basketball - 49 entries]

[Photo Album of other US photo's that we do not write captions for - this will be updated regularly]

10 days ago, we arrived in the US and headed over to Venice Beach (the filming location for Baywatch) for a week of sun, sand (& basketball for Jason).

Talk about contrasts: we had only just gotten used to the quiet, reserved culture of Malaysia when all of a sudden we find ourselves amongst street performers, drug dealers & surfers - all the while trying to talk our way out of being converted to the lord!
Our hostel (Venice Beach Hostel - book ahead if you go: we got screwed out of an extra $9 a night from not booking ahead) was one crazy place. It seemed like every night a different tenant was being kicked out by management (point in case - Dave from Lousiana, the crazy guy Jason met playing basketball who spent a number of hours forcefully preaching gospel to everyone).

Irene did a tour of Hollywood where she met Elmo & saw a lot of famous peoples houses, and we did a tour of the Getty center together.

On our last night at the hostel, our friendly (dorm) room-mate "Jeff" from Northern California proceeded to get wasted (as he had done so pretty much every day we had been there) on vodka & green. The next morning, Jeff was asked to leave the hostel by management. On our way down the stairs to the office (helping him with his bags), we noticed a commotion whereupon we found two of the office girls very distressed, all over the place & calling 911 because some hostile crazy guy had locked himself into a private room with the hostel owner. Jeff promptly kicked the door off it's hinges and man-handled the aggressor down the stairs and out onto the street (and yet even after possibly saving the hostel owners life, he still didn't get to stay).

Oh yeah, did I mention that we found out our room-mate Jeff was an adult movie star named Earl Buck-Eye? He dropped that pearl of wisdom on his way out =]

PS. Jason's Streetball Blog has also been updated with content from Venice Beach.