Venice Beach = Tripper central...

While at Venice Beach we checked out the skate park. So many awesome skaters, from lil kids up to old mates. One old mate in particular kept trying to pull a move he couldn't nail, and was getting fired up and kept launching his board. Awesome. Then he asked everyone to put their head between their legs and look at the sun set, shown in the photo below...

We didn't put our legs between our heads, but i just turned the camera upside down... Pretty amazing...

White Men Can't Jump...

After getting up at 4:30am to catch a flight to Memphis, which then connects on to LA, whats the first thing most people want to do? Catch some Z's... On the Do It Live tour though? We don't muck around. We headed straight to Venice Beach to take on some locals on the world famous Venice Beach courts. I've been wanting to go here since Sidney Dean and Billy Hoyle got it done in one of the best basketball movies of all time. Definitely another highlight of the trip. P.S. We owned those courts...

When luggage management goes wrong...

We all knew we had bought a bit of stuff while over here, but i don't think it really hit us till we tried to pile it all in a 8 seater minivan as well as ourselves. Planning fail...

The Tour Boys go their separate ways...

It's been all the way real, but it was time for the band members of the Do It live Tour to go in different directions for the las leg of the tour. Cam and Zacca headed to New Orleans before stopping by North Carolina and DC. Caleb and Dos stuck around in south beach before heading back to LA, and B, Cream, Patty, Fordey and Myself headed back to LA before returning home and Cream heads off to college at Cal Berkley. We thought it was only right to sit down for one last lunch together. Stay tuned though as updates will still be coming in from around the tour.

Swoop Swoop...

So we are walking around South Beach, and some girl comes past in a 6 seater electric car screaming Swoop Swoop. She says she is giving free rides, we need a ride, problem solved. What I wasn't expecting though that this would be the most gangster white chic I've ever come across. She seemed to know every word to 99 Problems by Jay-Z. I need to step my lyrics game up.

Rawse the Bawse!

We went to the Miami Heat v Bucks game to witness what will one day be considered two of the greatest players to ever play, Keyon Dooling and Joel Anthony... I kid I kid... LeBron and D Wade are that good it's insane. Highlight of the night though was definitely that my boy Rick Ross the boss was in the building. He runs Miami, was hoping to hit the South Beach clubs with him post game, but he got stuck in traffic according to his twitter...

Trawling for Gators...

Did the touristy thing you do while in Florida, visit the Everglades, and go air boating for some gators. The first few we saw were massive, I was positive they were fake, they wern't. Airboating was awesome, but not as awesome as the animal show handler. He didn't say a word while everyone sat down, and when he did speak, his voice just didn't seem real.

When your shorts do it live...

At some point during the Orange Bowl, tour percussionist Caleb's shorts did it all the way live. Almost as if he was meant to be a Virginia Tech fan...

Nikki Beach...

So the hostel organised a night out to a place called Nikki Beach, everyone from the hostel meets at 10:45, then trawls to the club. On this walk Brenton managed to walk straight into a parking meter, face first, one of his finest moments of the tour. The old mate from the hostel said to expect a couple of thousand people, he wasn't lying. Also Caleb and Hayden rejoined the tour after doing it live at a Diddy party in Vegas...

Orange Bowl...

A spur of the moment decision ended us up at the college football Orange Bowl. We were pumped to find out our tickets were in the very very back row. Awesome view, you get to see all the fans in all their glory, like the Virginia Tech fans sitting in front of us. Gutter trash is too nice of a compliment for this bunch. Tramp stamp on a 50 year old, check, dude starting a fight with his best mate, check, dude spewing up a storm all over 3 isles, check. I love college football.

Searching for Kim...

So there was something on my personal list of things to do while in USAyo... To find Kim Kardashian, tell her I'm a fan and see if one thing leads to another. This was a close as I got, the Dash store in Miami. I'm sure Kim has been following this blog, so, what up Kim?!

Welcome To Miami...

Thanks Will Smith... Arrived into Miami after the worst flight we have had yet. Staying at a backpackers which has 7 of us in 4 doubles. Fun. Miami is going off though, with the Orange Bowl College Football game in town, and everyone still keen to party after new years, there is people everywhere. Our hostel is taking us to a beach party tonight apparently expecting a couple of thousand people. New Years part 2.

The Day After...

Having to be up and out of that apartment was a task we were not looking forward to. We had to pack our bags, which we all discovered we did not have enough room for, get them down the 4 flights of stairs we walked 4 times a day, and get the apartment clean. Thank God Smagod for late checkouts...

New Years in NYC...

We decided to keep it indoors, the roads were a slush fest after the blizzard and we had heard times square was a nightmare. We decided to go to a club called Griffin in the Meat Packing District. Awesome place, of course every table and chair was reserved for bottle service, and we wern't feeling that baller. Soon as the open bar started at 9pm the drinks came hard and fast. Drinks over here arn't like drinks back in oz, and New Years eve the alcahol to mixer ratio was rocking at about 90% alchahol, 10% mixer. Our boy Josh Kelly joined the tour just in time for the Do It Live new years eve party. Here is some of the nights finest photo's...

Never judge a book by it's cover...

Or an underwrear box aparently. Z Barry went all in on the Ralph Lauren underwear game. He liked what they looked like on the box. What he got was some grandpa tighty whities... They would dead set come up to his chest... Bidding for these starts at $1 US...

Statue Of Liberty...

We went to statue of Liberty, and the queue was about 3 km's long, so what did we come with? a photo of Brenton grabbing some golden metal bull's balls...