Raw fish, wookiees and oreo doughnuts

Heeeey :)
This is a still slightly jetlagged Lucy coming to you from California! 

First of all, I love love love just about everything about California, from the weather to the doughnuts (especially the doughnuts!). It's extremely different from New York in a very relaxing kind of way. The air is a lot less humid and the streets are a lot less crowded, and both of these factors are giving us a chance to wind down. 

It is also very different from home in England - and I'm not just talking about the fact that now we finally have sunshine! For instance, the other day we went to this sushi place near us (which we would never normally do as we are not particularly adventurous) and ordered something completely random. It turned out that what we thought to be rolls happened to be actual raw fish, which wasn't what we had planned. 
To sum things up: I had only been in California for about a day and I had already tried sushi. Technically my sister ordered it, but she didn't like a lot of it, so I ended up eating some. It didn't really bother me, as I have kind of always wanted to try sushi (although I was slightly scared when it came down to actually eating the thing). It sounds weird to say this as sushi is literally raw fish, but I guess as a kid I was into a lot of Asian themed stuff (don't ask, I was a wannabe Asian). 

Within the first few days of being on holiday, I had already finished the book I had brought with me - City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, which I loved to pieces - and wanted to read the next in the series. Of course, as I do not think these things through, I had left the series at home (d'oh!). However, I quickly discovered that there is a library very close to where we are staying, so I decided to search for the next book in the series. Unfortunately, I did not find the book, but I did see a 40-ish year old man playing Runescape on one of the library computers. After staring for a little too long, the man turned to glare at me, so I carried on walking. Oops. But hey, I'm not judging - he can play whatever online game he wants on the library computers. 

But I mustn't forget the doughnuts!
Okay, so earlier on today we went to this AWESOME doughnut place that sold the most delicious (if not the most fattening) doughnuts that I loved to pieces! This is the one I picked (because I am SO healthy):

Yes; it is a OREO DOUGHNUT!!!
Feel free to be extremely jealous. I couldn't eat it all at once, as it is really filling, and I am still to finish it.
Here were the other doughnuts:

What else? We have also been to this sweetshop multiple times that is really cool but also just about gave me a heart attack. Basically, what happened was that in the sweet shop they sell these massive cardboard cut-outs of actors and pop stars. They have some cool ones, such as Matt Smith and a few of the Avengers (YAY), so I went to the corner of the store to check them out. Just as I was coming up to the 1D cut-outs, I turned to corner and SCREAMED. Right opposite Zayn Malik was this massive Star Wars wookiee, shoving a weapon in my face. 

For those of you who are not familiar with Star Wars (did you even have a childhood?!) it was exactly this, except it was quite a bit taller than me. I was just hideous. Can you now see why I screamed?

After this awkward and slightly horrific encounter, everyone in the store turned to stare at me and I kind of staggered off sheepishly. Yikes. The shop also sells Haribo Dinosaurs (which are a delicacy in my eyes) and these cute and cool little panda sweets that I enjoy buying after school in England, except here they have them in a different flavour which I simply ADORE.

On the whole, the rest of our time in California has consisted of hanging out by the pool (which is freezing, but is lovely on a boiling hot day), buying conveniently cheap make-up and hanging out at this book store where I found the new book in the Divergent collection by Veronica Roth: Four. After the end of Allegiant, which basically broke my heart, I have been looking for something to take my mind off the serious emotional damage (no spoilers - READ THE BOOKS). I may do a review of this, as I have been thinking about reviewing something such as a loved book or movie for quite a while. I am also an incredibly opinionated person! :3

Sooooo yeeeah. I will post some stuff about New York eventually, but right now I am quite busy. 

I always love writing my blog though, so I don't intend to neglect WhatTheFudge for too long. 

Best wishes wherever you are in the world,

Lucy x