Sep
23
Destination LA: The Weekend
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So after Universal Studios we spent the day cruising around Los Angeles with Brad as our tour guide.
Los Angeles is kind of weird, because typically in places like San Francisco, Seattle and New York, you’d head downtown to see all the busy fancy stuff. With LA its supposed to have a downtown, but because the city is so spread out it just wasn’t worth going there.
Our first stop of the day was the Getty Museum, here’s a good picture to give you an idea of the scope of this amazing place.
At the bottom left you see a ramp with some black lines going down, thats because there is a Tram that takes you from the parking garage at the bottom of the hill on up. From there you walk around the 4 wings and see insane amounts of art, sculptures, drawings and scenery.
This was us in the Gardens, they were really pretty as you’ll see.
Home of the little crick.
The ending of the crick, out too…
This very nice water garden.
We walked around a bit, tried to see some of the interesting things. Since this museum is so big, we probably could have spent all day here, you certainly can’t read all the information about everything, we would have had to come back Sunday as well and we couldn’t afford that. The nice thing is that you only have to pay for parking as the museum itself is free.
Danielle and Brads back.
The amazing view.
The Getty was the first museum Danielle and I had been to together. We’ve kind of always talked about going, but just never have. I think I know why now though, and thats because we both think they are kind of boring. Interesting to be sure, lots to see, cool things to learn, but, I’d rather see a kung-fu movie then some old chairs from the 13th century.
So we posed for this picture and took off.
To Santa Monica! Though I have no pictures of it. It had a nice promenade, lots of businesses, people performing, lots to see.
I did get these pictures though.
We did end up going out on the pier there, and here’s proof.
After that we went home, relaxed for a little while, then went out for dinner. Brad had been to this place that he loved, but barely remembered where it was. So after driving up and down this street over and over looking for it we found it! It looked really deceptive because it seemed like a weird cafe, not really like a fine dining restaurant.
The food was amazing, we all got the lasagna, and it was so good. The sauce was sweet which was interesting but really tasty. Dessert was the best though, they had these really thick pies and so we got 2 slices of the peacan and chowed down.
Here’s some proof to show you what the pies were like.
I didn’t see that thing till I was heading out the door. Otherwise I would have demanded a slice of the apple pie.
That was the end of Saturday. Brad was a very good tour guide and we had a great time.
Sunday, we were on our own so we went out to Hollywood. Hollywood is exactly what I’ve heard about it, dumpy. There are some interesting things there, mainly the stars on the ground and their big theaters.
The Chinese Theater, at the base is where all the handprints are.
The two of us checking out the hand prints.
You can see people dressed up in costumes saying hi to the tourists. (Thats a dude in an Alice costume)
Us taking a break.
The Hollywood sign from where we were.
And were off again to a new location.
Next location, Rodeo Drive.
There was this cute little walk through some buildings, it was unfortunately way to short. It was surprising that even though most of the businesses were open, the area was dead. Very few people walking the streets (picture is kind of an aberration) and very few in the businesses.
There was this other little mall area, it was a nice place to rest and hang out.
We hung out in Rodeo a little bit more, went into some of the shops, but overall it was kind of commercial and we didn’t have lots to spend so we saw what we felt was enough and moved on.
From here, we went to Anaheim, which is where we spent the next 3 nights. We did have dinner there, and I got some pictures of that, but I think it can wait till the next thread.
I love museums. And the Getty in particular is amazing. Makes me kind of wish that I was an oil baron.
I’m more a fan of Aquariums, I like the wildlife. Though it doesn’t take a fancy building to make me want to be an Oil Barron.