Hi Everybody,

So it is officially day 3 here in LA! We had really busy week getting stuff done before our flight, and fortunately everything worked out great! The movers showed up early, and the car arrive earlier than we expected. Even the stuff we shipped via DHL came in earlier... Now we need to get place, and although there's tons of available apartments here, it's really tricky to find a good deal. I guess the biggest problem facing LA is location. Forget the valley! Yesterday we picked up the car and took off to check out out first batch of apts. Because we're staying close to LAX we have to take the 405 (suck!) to get almost anywhere. So as we expected, traffic is pretty ridiculous. Even during weekedays, off peak hours, it slow! But anyways, we got to see 5 apts yesterday and 4 today, and have another 6 tomorrow. Have to admit, I can settle pretty easy on crappy places. Jenny on the other hand is more demanding, so after trying out a bunch of cralistings I finally cracked, and forked out on westside listings. Some pay service, but the places there are way better, and way cheaper. So we'll keep you posted on out hunt!

The pooches made it in one piece. We did have good 3 hour delay leaving NY due to rain, so they prob. just they were pretty restless by the time we got to LAX. The real crazy thing was I ran into an ex-co-worker (Filomena Loveccio), weird! I'm pushing the car into baggage claim, and suddenly... "What the hell you doing here?!" It was cool to see a familiar face, but we were both more concerned w/ getting our bags... So been getting up really early, like 'round 7am, i guess NY time it's more like 10am. I happy with that, 'caue I can do stuff like check out job listng and whatever, early on, plus with so much driving scheduled, time is really importnant. So so far haven't meet up w/ friends or relatives yet, but sure tomorrow night we'll be grabbng dinner w/ one of Jenny's cousins.

OK, aside from amazing weather, really clean streets, and a lot of spanish, things are very much like the east coast! Hope to hear fro you guys soon... I'll try to keep blog up to date as the adventure continues.

Big up West Coast!
Nick