California

We flew to LA today arriving about 9pm LA time. (LA is 3 hours ahead 0f Hawaii, so 19 hours behind NZ time. Easiest way is to add 5 hours and lose a day so Friday 5pm in NZ is 10pm Thursday here.)
We are staying at a cheap Holiday Inn near LAX and will pick up another car early tomorrow morning before heading off to sight see Venice beach, Hollywood, Beverly hills etc.
Then about lunchtime we are doing Universal studios before heading down to Anaheim in the evening. Hopefully if we're all not too exhausted then we'll attempt to go to Disneyland as well, so it's a huge day for us all.

One thing that is obvious is that we have bought way too many clothes with us. We have 4 very big suitcases and 2 that are only just small enough to get away with as carry ons.
Checking in at Honolulu was a bit of a shock when we found out that any suitcase over 50lbs carried a $50 fine. By the time we had re-packed we had 4 suitcases weighing 49 lbs each and hand luggage we could hardly carry so when the girls head home they'll be carrying some of our excess stuff with them.