Set the alarm today! After waking so late yesterday lol. And after another after-midnight night, was glad I did or it would have been a repeat performance. I went down and brought brekky up to the apartment again as the other 2 were still in bed. We enjoyed a relaxed meal then got ready to go do a city tour. Decided on the hop on, hop off bus as we werent really interested in the stars tours. The red line tour starts right in front of the shopping mall nearby, so it was easy & great timing as seems to be the case with buses and trains since we have been here.
Another lovely sunny and clear day, had to cover up a bit though as I got a tad burnt at Santa Monica yesterday. We drove all around Beverley hills, Rodeo Dr, Sunset strip and various famous hotels and restaurants/night clubs they frequent. All very pristine and clean and since it was Easter Sunday, a little hard to imagine all the glitz & glammer really! I just found out too, that the Dolby theatre we are staying just behind and walk through every day, is in fact where the oscars have been held!
The Viper room nightclub, famous for where River Pheonix OD'ed & died unfortunately
L.A beautiful with its palm tree lined streets
Car museumCame back from the tour and we caught the 2 trains back along the same line as yesterday, this time to the Natural History Museum. Danni and I especially love all the antiquities, dinosaurs and various old, old, old stuff! Spent a good few hours there wandering around then we trained back to Hollywood and walked to where the In-and-Out-Burger joint is, as recommended but alas was shut! Pretty dodgy actually as soon as you get off the main road - lots of homeless wandering around or sitting stoned or yelling at ??? Around the roadsides. We walked back to the main strip and bought a couple of bottles of beer and the most delicious chicken nachos from the Mexican bar and grill. They are different to ours at home, much lighter in the meat department, so you arent over-full after. They were delicious.
T Rex
Triceratops foot 
The museum has many gemstones
Graeme decided we need an early night tonight as we are hitting Universal Studios tomorrow. Looking forward to it since I remember Mum and Dads photos fromt here, back in the 80's.
Day 5-
Up and at 'em early today, we were ready before breakfast was on! We worked out that we could get the train to universal studios easy - its just one stop on the red line in the other direction to usual. Loading the metro cards is easy too- a one trip load on a myki -like card is $1.75 each way or an all day pass if you are doing more than one line is $7 p.p.
Off the metro and we were picked up by the universal studios shuttle to go up the mega hill there. After going today, the biggest tip for sure is to buy the Front-of-Line passes. They are SO worth it cos you whiz past everyone in the ordinary queues, so we barely waiteed at all on any of the rides, when the wait time was up to an hour normally. The rides have moved with the times too - there are still some regular roller coasters but a lot of them are simulators with giant screens showing the roller coasters or drops etc. Makes it easier to handle on the faster ones. We all took turns at screaming and I mean All of us hahah! The Jurassic park & Transformers rides were great especially, they are all pretty short though, we noticed. The Waterworld show was action packed and really worthwhile too!
Show had actors from famous tv shows & movies in it 
We're going in!
OMG the rotten egg, vomit, bogie & dirt flavours were d.i.s.g.u.s.t.i.n.g.!
Animal actors showWe ended the day with the studio tour that takes you down to all the movie and sound lots and puts you through some of the special effects. Saw some of the old sets from movies like Psycho (Mum!) and Jaws - we the shark came out of the water in a big hurry and proved that I really can scream like a girl haha and the real street off Melrose place etc.
We left about 6pm and back on the metro, then out for dinner at a fantastic Italian restaurant called the California Pizza Kitchen, which is just in the shopping mall next door- it was yum! Getting used to adding 20% tip on everything, painful but a fact of life when visiting the States. Then we wandered up Hollywood Boulevard for the last time and bought Danni a travel neck cushion for her flight home on Thursday and we bought a freshly cooked and still warm churros - put Melbournes to shame!
The world of Harry Potter 
Look at the size of the beer over here! We shared lol
Harry Potter street 
Transformers - was an awesome rideWe are packing up tonight to head to Anaheim tomorrow for the last 2 nights Danni is here, to visit Disneyland!
Day 6-
We relaxed this am- need to get over the last few days haha! Went down to the Pink store which is like a cheaper version of Victoria Secret, then packed up and off to Anaheim. We were picked up in a massive GMC SUV, the suspension was so good! Didnt take too long to get there today as the traffic wasnt bad, about 45 mins. We decided to move instead of adding 2 hours of driving each day to the theme parks. The hilton here has a happy hour where they serve free dinks - the Karl Strauss wheat beer is awesome! And a light buffet which is complimentary Mon- Thurs. Very family orientated food but still nice to have.
Into bed after packing up, Danni is charged up for the theme parks tomorrow!
4 comments:
Gosh - 33 years later and Jaws, the water show, Psycho etc still going strong. That shark sure gets you going! You are right about the glitz on the main drag then step back a block or two and the seamy ugly side of the place appears.
Enjoying your blog!
Love keeping up with what you are doing - looks like you are having a great time!
Sounds like it's Dan is Thur to get upon get u brekkie before she leaves then dad has weeks to take his turn lol. Looks like ur having so much fun! And heaps of culture and food being taken in lol 😘🤣🍔😝
Dans turn* haha bloody auto correct! Gets me all the time haha
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