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Hello everyone,
We arrived in LA late Sunday evening, didn't get to see much that evening however we did discover we were too far away from everything so we decided to book a new hotel for our remaining stay in LA. We booked into the Sea Rock Inn early the next morning and once checked in we dumped our bags in our room and went off on the bus to Santa Monica Blvd.
We were on the look out for McCabes bar, which is located down Santa Monica Blvd, to watch the toon game. The bus dropped us off at shop number 6789 Santa Monica and the McCabes bar was number 2310 and with 15 minutes to kick off it wasn't looking good, but we managed to get there only 10 minutes into the game!! After the game, we walked along muscle beach watching everyone work out and then along the peir. We started heading back to get the bus and noticed traffic was bad, we then found out from the locals this was because Obama was in town! After two hours on the bus and only getting a mile up the road we decided to get off and walk, only to find the road was shut off as two minutes earlier Obama had passed. Getting home that evening was a nightmare as it took police 2 hours to re-open the road, but we did it.
The next morning we go up early and went to the local shop to buy an all day bus pass and bumped into a local federal officer, she asked us what we were doing in this part of town and offered us a lift in her bus to the station. We jumped in the back of the mini bus along with around 8 or 10 scary looking people. As we drove down the road the other passengers explained that they are all serving community service!! They were on there way to clean a lake out whilst we were on the way to Universal Studios lol but they were all really nice actually. So one dodgy mini bus ride, three trains and one bus later we made it to Universal Studios and had a great day on all the rides!
The next day we were up early on the train to Hollywood Highland. We started off on the celeb tour of the houses up in the Hills, we saw where Jacko died, Justin Timberlakes, Simon Cowells and Lauren Conrads houses along with many more! And even Madonnas post box lol. We also had to teach the bus who Vinnie Jones was and showed them his house with our flag flying high outside and Stan the tour driver is now going to steal this and add it to his tour! After this we went for a tour of all the stars on the walk of fame and went to the Chinese theatre, Egyption theatre and learnt about Sid (Mr Hollywood). We then went for a tour of the Kodak theatre, which was not so impressive, a large shopping mall which they hang curtains in to hide this for the Oscars and by this time Luke was getting bored and tried to crack a few jokes which got us a few funny looks lol and before heading home we went to Madam Tussauds and the Roosevelt Hotel.
Last day in LA we had a pool day before heading to the Greyhound Station.
Will try and post some photos soon.
Lots of Love us xx
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angie wow,sounds amazing, you have done soooo much already. This diary is a fantastic idea, we will be logging on regularly to share your travelling experiences with you, miss u luv u xxxx
aggie Sounds great! Keep us posted on your blog! Take care xxxxx
Abbie Hi sounds like your having a great time, look forward to catching up on your blog!!! xxxxx