Janet and Peter's boat docked at 7am so I was picked up just before that by Nancy Richardson, a friend of a friend who lives in San Pedro and taken down to the harbour. Waited around for them to disembark for a wee while - amazing the number of people coming off the boat and their enormous amounts of luggage! Most people had two enormous wheelie suitcases each and some even needed a porter!
Lovely to see Janet and Peter - they had had a fabulous trip starting off in LA, then across country via Las Vegas, then to Augusta for the Masters, then down to Florida and on a two week cruise through the Panama Canal. They were originally going to get on a plane back to NZ on the day they arrived back in LA, but then realised that because of the time difference, the 29th April, their wedding anniversary, would disappear! So they decided to stay an extra couple of night, and I was lucky that I was able to fit a meet-up into my schedule.
After they landed we had some breakfast at the Long Beach Cafe, a traditional diner near the hotel. J&P were staying at my hotel which meant we were close by. After checking in, we hired a car for going to the Getty Center in LA tomorrow, and then walked around the shoreline.
J&P's boat departed again from Los Angeles Harbour at about 5pm, so we went down to San Pedro with Nancy to watch it. Nancy works at the Maritime Institute of Los Angeles and they have a couple of tall ships that we visited and sat and watched the boats go by. Fantastically busy harbour, lots to watch!
We had dinner at Ports O'Call restaurant - fabulous seafood!
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