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Ok, firstly LA was awesome! Secondly, this might be a bit long, much to write. The day after we arrived, we drove to Rodeo drive and looked at more shops that had stuff we could never afford and earned ourselves more looks of disapproval. As we made our way to Hollywood Blvd (for the walk of fame) we were talked into doing a bus tour (only after we talked him into lowering the price). The tour took us to all the LA hotspots, including the houses of the stars (Lady Gaga, Oprah and Brad Pitt just to name a few) we even saw the house where Michael Jackson died. When the tour ended, we had a walk down the Walk of Fame and quickly got distracted by a forming queue, which turned out to be a line for Jimmy Kimmel (basically the US version of Rove). The guests that night : Ramon Rodrigues (the new Bosley on Charlies Angels), Jane Lynch (from Glee, who we saw the previous night) and Blink 182 (a band, if you haven't heard of them, crawl out from under your rock). Naturally, we jumped in line and saw the show.
The next day, we made our way to Santa Monica Pier and spent the afternoon in the sun. That night, we went to a taping of a new sitcom called 2 Broke Girls. We really wanted to see The Big Bang Theory, but it wasn't taping whilst we were there and this show was the only other one that had tickets available. It turned out to be a pretty good show, despite the fact that the filming took 6 hours for a 22minute show, though Zach Levi (from Chuck and the movie Tangled) made a random appearance so it was totally worth it.
Wednesday we went to Universal Studios, VIP Experience, with a guided tour. We got to see movie sets and tv sets, including the set of Parenthood (TV show) and the War of the Worlds crashed plane set. We left our stomachs on the Mummy ride and went to see the Waterworld show. The show is basically the same basis as the movie (except not quite as rubbish), with stunt men and water and .. yeah that's about it. Unfortunately, half way through the show, one of the stunt men faceplanted or got hit in the face and possibly broke his nose or jaw or something. Either way, the show was cancelled as the guy walked off holding his face. That night we went to Tim Minchins show (Aussie comedian). We didn't have tickets and it was sold out, but we rocked up and hoped to get it. We got on the standby list and managed to get third row seats and even got to meet him after the show.
Thursday, our final day in LA. In the morning we had a tour of the Warner Brothers Studios. Some of the streets around the Warner Brothers studios look like regular streets with regular buildings, but the buildings are all completely fake. They are all just fiberglass building faces. Even the rusty pipes and fire escape ladders are painted fiberglass. We went to a museum that had props and costumes from past and present tv shows and movies, including Batmans suit. There was also a floor devoted to Harry Potter props and costumes which was pretty cool. We tried talking the tour guide into taking us to the Big Bang Theory set, but they were filming so we couldn't go there, instead we went to the set of the Buymore (from the tv show Chuck, kind of like a Walmart/Big W) which was super awesome. Later that night we went to a filming of Rove LA which is basically the same as Rove Live, just filmed in LA. We lined up for two and a half hours, just to get shafted to the back row because they wanted to put all the pretty people in the front rows. The guests that night : Seth Green (you may know him as Dr Evils son in Austin Powers), Olivia Munn (we hadn't heard of her either) and Michael Weathely (Tony DiNozzo on NCIS). The show was absolutely hilarious, especially the satellite interview they did with a vampire who wants to run for president. The show only airs on Foxtel, but it would be worth downloading, especially if you want to see Michael Weatherly strip throughout the show.
Friday morning we began the 8 hour journey to San Francisco and when we got there, we returned our car (which we had named Sheldon). The final stop, not long now until home time :(
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