The Lane's next BIG trip: Day 20. Los Angeles to San Diego. Wednesday 8th January

Christine took Cam to take some photos of his favourite stars on the Walk Of Fame. After breakfast and packing our ever growing bags Andrew walked back to the Hertz rental office to get our next car while Christine and the kids (after Chelsea's insistence) took some of our ~~old~~ unwanted food ~~scraps~~ and gave it to a homeless person out on street nearby. Don't know why the first person refused it?? The food actually consisted of a half loaf of bread that we had bought the night before and a heap of jam & butter sachets and fruit that were 'surrendered' by the hotel. The lady who received the package was very grateful.
We left Hollywood at 11am to drive south along the Highway. The driving was again a bit stressful for Andrew as the traffic was heavy in places and even then all the other cars were doing at least 75mph in the 65 zones (according to a taxi driver the previous night, there are no speed cameras in California and we figure that all the traffic feel safe speeding as long as there is someone driving faster so the California Highway Patrol will always nab them first). It was generally 4 or 5 Lanes each way but did get up to 8 lanes with cars switching lanes everywhere! We arrived in San Diego at 2pm and went straight to the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum located near the cruise ships docks. We spent 3 hours and walked all over and through the huge 64 thousand tonne, 300 meter long decommissioned US navy ship doing the self guiding audio tour. It was amazing to see the galleys, engine room, officers rooms, pilot ready rooms, flight deck, bridge, brig and lots of jets and helicopters. Jacob also found time to fly a jet in a simulator (Christine and Andrew missed out as they only just finished touring as the ship was closing at 5pm). There were many volunteer guides who were champing at the bit to talk or answer questions. It was a really good 3 hours and only cost about $19 per adult (but we don't think any of the kids want to join the Navy now!). We then drove to our new home for the next 3 nights.