Los Angeles Follow-up

As promised, I am writing to let you know more about the trip Caroline and I took to Los Angeles, California. Yes, I am actually doing it this time; I know that there have been previous occasions with empty promises of more info, but not this time (don't you guys feel special).

It all started about a week and a half ago, when Caroline and I thought (well mostly Caroline) we should go for another road trip out of the desert--it isn't exactly the most wonderful place to be here. We were thinking of going to San Diego, but a quick look into hotel prices and we quickly changed our minds (200 USD per night being the cheaper of the available hotels). So instead we thought Los Angeles would be something good to see (ocean, Hollywood, etc). We booked our hotel room for Friday & Saturday nights (at a much more reasonable 90 USD per night).

Now the thing about Los Angeles is that it isn't exactly close to Chandler...it is was about 650 km from the apartment to the hotel. And we didn't exactly get out of the greater Phoenix area in record time either. We left McDonald's at 5pm (now lets not go into whether that was a good choice as to eat there or not) and eventually got out of the GPA an hour later; so far, not so good.

So at about 11:15 we get into Long Beach (where our hotel is)...oh almost forget to mention not to stop at rest areas in California, they are extremely sketchy. But back to finding our hotel.

This is where we learn the lesson that addresses and directions are not fungible. You see Caroline didn't think of writing down the actual directions to the hotel. And as it turns out there happened to be about 3 Domingez Streets in Long Beach area...oh and that didn't include the one that the hotel was actually on. So we started to go through the possible streets, with no luck. We eventually found someone's wireless internet connection. :) So we go and check Caroline's email (which had the location clear as day). So after about an hour of driving around Long Beach we finally find the hotel. :)

Saturday we found ourselves going and checking out Hollywood Blvd with all the stars. :) Oh, and don't forget all the people who have left their mark on the side walk (in front of the Chinese theatre).

Afterwards took a tour down Sunset Blvd towards the ocean. Of course we took a quick detour through Bel Air to see how all the rich people lived. Mostly on narrow roads up very high hills. :)

Oh I forgot to mention the visit to the Wax Museum and Guinness Book Museums.

A waxed copy of Charlie

Ryan with the cast of Sienfeld
A poor representation of MarilynRyan and the King

As I was saying, we headed towards the ocean and found ourselves on the very beach that Baywatch was filmed. Doesn't this look familiar?
Well that was about all there was to day one. On Sunday the only real tourist thing we did was to go visit the Getty museum. Now the Getty was a very cool place. It had extremely neat architecture! I'd love to go back. The highlight of the art was probably the photo exhibit of Frederick Sommer, and the architecture itself. They also had some Rembrandt paintings, which I'd have to say were quite interesting, but still enjoyed the photo gallery more.