This morning we headed out to Fry's - this place is HUGE! Think like...at least twice the size of Big W Tuggerah. Its an electronics store and they specialise in computers. So you walk around and theres sections with big signs dedicated to hard drives, processors, RAM, cases, motherboards, and just about every type they sell is out on display. Like, attached to the wall (not cases though, those are all lined up on a long shelf). Its crazy cool.
Theres also lots of accessories, pre built machines, laptops and networking gear. Thats just one half of the store. In the middle is a little cafe thing.
On the other side theres more - dvds, cds, books, video games, consoles, dvd players, blu-ray players, audio gear, and then additionally, a section dedicated to small & large appliances like toasters and crap.
I found the entire Twilight series in hard cover for $45. Crazy. It was about half price by their standards too.
Reporting back on the bacon salt, I found none - unfortunately not at this store I don't think (though I forgot to look/ask after a little while, so maybe they did?).
After Fry's, we headed back to the hotel to dump our loot (JT almost bought a laptop, but then didn't, for some retarded reason - more later) and then headed down to the M&M store & Coke 'Museum'. They were pretty darn cool. Definitely a must-do-once thing.
We didn't buy anything as we don't want anything to melt in the HEAT (I'm pretty sure its 40+ degrees here every day in summer, even still in the late 30s at 9pm). We're going back again tonight, late. We know its open from experience of walking past at like 10:30pm last night!
Coke Museum we did the tasting thing. Some were not bad, some were down right horrible! All different drinks from all over the world, 16 total and only $8 - we shared one and didn't finish it at all.
They have SO MUCH Coke stuff there - it apparently used to be museum-like but now its pretty much just a shop with a small cafe thing that only serves Coke products.
They have these awesome glasses that are in the shape of cans. I think I'm going to buy a couple and hope they make it back :P - might pack them in my backpack. If they break, I'll have only lost about $10.
After we were done there, we wandered back along to the hotel. We were going to go to the Nascar cafe for lunch but decided to postpone til dinner, and ended up getting maccas instead. First time! I got this Angus Beef burger which was a 1/3 pound patty. You choose either mushroom & swiss cheese or bacon & regular cheese. You can guess easy what I picked :P It was pretty good too! The salt on the chips here is much better than at home. Medium sized chips is comparable to home, but the large is like our large + half again!
Drinks are epic. Medium is almost a large at home and the large is so big they need to be served in a plastic cup.
Also on the way back I decided to stop at the Hard Rock cafe store, despite my irritation at their misleading nature :P I bought a nice HR Vegas guitar shaped pin. I wanted a shirt but...yeah...I kinda have too many now I think :P
After lunch JT told me he was going to head back to Fry's for the laptop. He was going to buy one, a Gateway computer - but they were sold out and he was disappointed. So when he got back he thought it over and decided to get an HP he saw. So I headed back to the shops for shoes.
I ended up with a pair of Globe "Sabre" shoes, which I had my eye on back in Aus but couldn't find them instores. I also picked up a pair of Nikes at Mum's/Hannah's request :) Unfortunately no blue! Can't believe it, they only put those up on the shelf today and only had 7.5's as the biggest. But they had pink (so did everyone else) so it wasn't all bad, I guess. I did try another store in the complex but they didn't have any at all.
Eventually, after something like 2 hours of decision making and purchasing, I trekked back to the room. My legs and feet are dead! They were dead yesterday!
I got back and JT was here. I asked him if he'd even left - he told me he got to the lobby and decided to do one more check on the laptop he wanted (and I thought I couldn't make up my mind!) and Daniel came online and told him to buy an Asus back home. So JT stayed in the room.
I should mention that I came very close to buying a netbook at Fry's. They were very cheap. But I figured I should save that money so I can actually enjoy my time in LA :P I will probably buy one eventually though, even if I end up giving it to Hannah. I'm a gadget whore.
I'm almost out of space already in my suitcase. Just enough room for some more crap from Hot Topic in LA (and maybe a baseball at the baseball? :P) - but JT has heaps of room in his second case so if I run out I'm not entirely buggered).
And on that note, my foot has gone to sleep and I'm hungry - dinner beckons (I think we're skipping Nascar and just going to hit up somewhere around the Sega place, we wanna play!).
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