On Sunday, we realized that we both had Wednesday AND Thursday off work. What?! Two days in a row together, unplanned?! This called for drastic mini-vacation-planning measures. We decided to go play tourist in LA.
Even though I consider LA one of the most despicable places in the world (never-ending concrete, mind-boggling traffic, outrageous life-styles), it does hold some entertaining touristy activities. Here's some highlights!
We took a tour of Warner Brothers studios and saw some sweet stuff!The fire escape where Christian Bale sings 'Santa Fe' in Newsies...(I was SUPER excited to hear that! When I kind of went crazy, our guide said he doesn't even usually tell people about that because no one cares about Newsies, but I told him he had just made my day!)
This is the only remaining set from Casablanca! How amazing! It's the cafe in Paris where they are having lunch outside during one of Rick's flashbacks.
Self-explanatory.
Um, the car from Harry Potter! WAY cooler than the bat mobile. :-)
The actual set of friends! We got to pose on the couch! One lady in our group (who was wearing a FRIENDS sweatshirt) actually cried.
We went to the Chinese theater and saw all the stars' hand prints (because somehow we missed this place on our last trip to Hollywood, even though we were right down the street from it...)
We went to The Grove (a quite fashionable mall) and saw AC Slater, I mean, Mario Lopez, and paparazzied him.
We went to the La Brea Tar Pits which is one of the world's largest fossil deposits of Ice Age animals. Probably not what most people go to LA to see, but it was interesting. Saw some crazy big mastadon skeletons and saw some excavation in progress!
We went to a Clippers game which was AWESOME! Way more exciting than watching the Lakers murder their opponents last year. The game came down to the last seconds, and there was lots of high-flying action from this year's slam dunk contest champion, Blake Griffin. And we ate ENORMOUS hot dogs that made me want to barf.
The next day, we decided to go to Disneyland! We thought that we might look a bit out of place going there without any kids...but then we decided it would be way BETTER without kids, because we wouldn't have to go on any of the lame rides or plan our food schedule around them! Anyway...
Josh decided we should get some cotton candy because we hadn't had it in years. After eating about half of it, we decided it was a BAD choice. Definitely NOT as good as we remembered.
It was a crazy but successful trip to LA! And hopefully we will not feel the need to return anytime soon.
