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And only 2 days later the first plan was put to action, hiking in the mountains above Malibu.

We went up a hill, down a valley, and up a trail, following a stream of water which eventually brought us to a pool of water where a waterfall was flowing down form the mountain above.

It seemed like most people didn’t go higher than that, but we decided to climb the mountain to get to the waterfalls source. After some climbing we managed to get to an even bigger waterfall. And behind the waterfall was a cave!

The waterfall from behind. The awesomeness doesn’t really show in the clip, but it was just amazing.

The rock was covered in some cozy green stuff, but it wasnt slippery as I first imagined, so climbing was easy. Staying dry was impossible though, I was soaked when we were done climbing the waterfall.

This is as high as we could get. We couldn’t get on top of the waterfall, but we got on top of the cliff next to it. If you look closely, you¨ll see that the rock we are sitting on is just shooting out straight into mid air, and below is a really deep canyon. Far behind us you can see some houses on a hill, which gives you a hint on how high up we are, and behind that is only ocean and sky.

(Seriously, shortly!)

Today we went sightseeing a bit in Downtown. MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Arts, is located just a few blocks from us, so we decided to go check it out. It wasn’t as great as I expected though. The Modern Museum in Stockholm was actually a lot better in my opinion. Both bigger and more diverse. Besides the MOCA in Downtown, there is also another one down in Little Tokyo. Our tickets allowed admission to both museums, so we took a stroll to Little Tokyo and had a look. This one was slightly better, but most of the stuff was just plain boring. Then again, I’m usually not impressed at all with modern art, in fact I found at least 50% of what we saw today to be utter bullshit. Well, on our way back from there we found this awesome wall painting though. Notice the resemblance?

On our way back up to Downtown(yes, down is up) we went by an entrance to a minimall in Little Tokyo that we had seen before but never actually entered, so we decided to eat dinner there. We ate at the Ramen place in the picture, which only had 3 things on the menu… and they were all noodle soups.A funny thing was that after you decided which soup you wanted, you also had to tell the waitress how spicy you wanted it on a scale of 1-7. I picked the Soy Soup with a hotness of 4, which was spicy enough to make me cry and cough throughout the meal… And I consider myself fairly resistant to spicy food. I don’t even want to know what a 7 is.

This is on our back home after the noodle soup, which actually was the best noodle soup I’ve ever had. Here’s looking east on Spring Street, i.e. “our street”. Our apartment building is just beyond the red lights to the right.

Here’s another nice little curiosity that I stumbled upon. Yellow raspberries! They taste exactly the same as regular raspberries though. It’s interesting how you can fool your brain depending on just the color of what you eat. When your brain is execting one thing and your taste buds disagree.

But what I do not miss is grocery shopping in Stockholm. Neither making a daytrip via at least two-three means of public transportation to Willys only to suffer broken paper bags from the wet snow halfway home, nor paying insane overprices at ICA Alvikstorg för some crappy X-tra fishsticks. Grocery shopping here is first of all really cheap, but the best thing is the huge range and variety of food available. And even the most exotic (contextual… probably applies mostly to Swedes) organic stuff is really affordable. It’s such a relief to be able to walk into a grocery store and just pick whatever you want knowing that you don’t have to eat ramen noodles for the next week if you buy that cranberry/orange bread that just begs to be eaten.

Below is some of the cool stuff I bought from Trader Joe’s on our last run.

Mango/Passionfruit Müsli! Haven’t tried it yet though. And I managed to find Kefir at long last, it’s probably the closest I will get to “fil” ’round these parts.

$5 per pack!!! How awesome is that? I’m gonna get wicked intelligent after my stay in the US…

Dying from awesomeness overdose here. And look at the potatoes, they’re so small! Awesome!!!

I love these. They’re like mutated tomatoes or something.

Pear shaped tomatoes! It doesn’t get much better.

Well, actually it does. Transformers Band-aids!!! Optimus Prime!!!