Day 116 - Quality Time in the City of Angels

Today we wanted to see Los Angeles our way and spend more time in the places we’d liked whilst on the tour a few days ago. Our first stop was the posh Rodeo Drive where we even managed to get some admirers of our sexy ride before we parked up and took a walk along the rich peoples’ shopping street. Needless to say we bought nothing but saw all of the big names in fashion with their: appointment only shops, pristine shop fronts, and fancy window displays. We also got to see a healthy selection of supercars and luxury cars cruising up and down the streets which was probably more to Danny’s tastes than Corrie’s really.

We then drove across to The Grove and had a much longer look around the shops etc on offer here. We also spent a while watching the fancy water display which was basically a large display that allowed water to fall in a programmed way to display words and pictures. This was pretty cool and people were also asking questions to an orb; the answers of which would be displayed in the waterfall.

Our next stop was the good old walk of fame again where we spent quite a while pacing the streets and checking out a seemingly endless supply of the floor stars. We also got to see more of the hand and footprints in the cement outside the Chinese Theatre along with lots more of the people in costumes lining the streets for photographs (for a charge of course.) We even got to see the Hollywood sign today as the sky was clear.

Our final stop of the day was set to be the Griffith Observatory where Corrie had read that we could get a good view of the city and the Hollywood sign. As we got near though it became clear that this would prove difficult as the traffic here was ridiculous. The roads had been bad all day and were taking their toll on Danny once more, and here they were still not relenting and we eventually gave up trying and weren’t for taking a space at the very bottom of the huge hill. We decided that we’d attempt this again tomorrow but earlier in the day so as to avoid this accumulation of tourist traffic.

We stopped for tea at a great Italian restaurant before making our way back to the hotel for a well-earned rest from this hectic, colossal metropolis of cheesy-ness.