Day 19

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Temp: 35°C

Day 19 started earlyish, had to meet at the chinese theatre at 9:00am for our Grand Tour of LA and the Hollywood homes tour.
While on the way, about 2 doors down from our hostel at the disney cinema they were setting up for the premier of the movie G-Force that afternoon. It was cool to see them setting up the red carpet and all the big banners etc.
So we headed off on our tour. Went and saw the Hollywood Bowl, down sunset blvd past the Viper Room, then headed into Beverly Hills to Rodeo Drive (lucky for my bank account we didnt et too long there!!).
Then we headed out and saw the Le Brae Tarpits (featured in My Girl 2) and stopped and had lunch at the Farmers Market and The Grove. While we were here, Carl decided he wanted to go into the shop Abercrombie and Fitch, lucky for us girls he did as inside the store they had one of their models there, u could just go up and they would take a Polaroid of you and him. Hotttttt.
We moved on from there and down to Downtown LA, past the Staples Centre (where just recently Michael Jacksons memorial was held.
We saw the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the birth place of LA (the first street) and finished of with the Hollywood sign.
When we ot back to swap over buses to do the Hollywood Homes tour the premier had started and i managed to snap a pic of Jon Voight (Angelina Jolies dad) on the red carpet from the bus.
We moved on to the homes tour, the guide was awesome. We saw Orlando Blooms house, Will Ferralls, Michael Jacksons house and school, Ringo Starr house, Eddie Murphys... anyway, u et the drift. That part went for about two hours and we saw alot.
We returned back to the chinese theatre, had time for some dinner, went and collected our bags and made our way on the train to Union Station to catch the OC line out to Anaheim.
We got to Anaheim just in time to catch the 9:30pm fireworks at Disneyland in the distance. Got a maxi cab that was very handily roaming the carpark and made our way to our hotel. Ahhh, a proper hotel!
We made our way over to Downtown Disney n had some cocktails n headed to bed.

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Photos

G-Force Premiere
Setting up for the G-Force Premiere

G-Force Premiere
Setting up for the G-Force Premiere

Hollywood Blvd
Jo, Marnee, Mickey, Me , Carl and Karen

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On the Bus

Grand Tour of LA
With Marnee inside the Hollywood Bowl

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The Viper Room

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Beverley Hills

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Rodeo Drive

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Outside Tiffany and Co on Rodeo Drive

Grand Tour of LA
The fountain from CLueless

Grand Tour of LA
Louis Vuitton on Rodeo Drive

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D&G on Rodeo Drive

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Prada on Rodeo Drive though it is unmarked

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Self explanatory

Grand Tour of LA
The Le Brea Tarpits

Grand Tour of LA
The La Brea Tarpits... the Tar bubbling!!!!

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The place where James Dean was last seen alive...

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Inside The Farmers Market

Grand Tour of LA
With the Abercrombie Model inside the Farmers Market

Grand Tour of LA
Mmmmm, icecream!!

Grand Tour of LA
and then there was none!! i felt soooo sick!

Comments

[pinto]

Hey mate
Looks like you blog got cut off half way thru. You havent blogged for a couple of days...I'm sure everything is OK and you are too busy to type...so that's cool but just check this latest blog.....text seems to have disappeared. Ian

[Nick]

Great reading Mich - it brings back memories... Enjoy