Cali, here I come! Err... Here I am!
So. California trip is go! As I type, I'm sitting in our hotel room in LA! ^___^ And I am sooooo, dead tired, but that's beside the point. XD It's been a busy past few days.
We left Cinci Friday afternoon, via Delta airlines, for the flight to the LA airport that lasted four hours and four minutes, according to the pilot. Not a horrible flight at all, although flying doesn't agree with me exactly. Ginger pills to the rescue! XD Mythbuster tested, Raven approved! Got to LA, took about an hour to get our rental van, then drove to our hotel... which seemed rather seedy. Rodeway Inn in the middle of what looked to be kind of a kind of ghetto neighborhood. So... we drove around the corner to have dinner at Subway, talked to the locals, and found out that the Clarion across the street was a lot better. So! There we stayed! Checked in, aaaaand... collapse. XD Tired!
Woke up the next morning around 8 our time, 5 LA time. Couldn't get back to sleep, puttered around a bit, checking out what we wanted to do locally, got a hotel for when we go to San Jose tomorrow (We're going to the Winchester mansion, WOOT!), and then off we went, sometimes around 11 local time! Our hotel is within walking distance of downtown, so we checked out some of the local street stuff (there was also some street fair going on), spent a little time at Macarthur Park, and I got a cute new denim skirt at some street store where the guy barely spoke English. XD My mom got a couple shirts too, and cuuuuuuute! Afterwards, we had lunch at a small food court nearby, since we were all starving. Mom and hubby had Subway, Dad and I had some place called Oishi Teriyaki. XD Yummy! ;P
Once we were done, we loaded in the van and drove down to Grauman's Chinese Theatre, checked out some of the walk of fame (I got piccies I'll upload later! XD), the handprints in the concrete, and picked up a few souvenirs in a local shop. I even got to see the church of Scientology! XDD That amused me so much I took a picture, that I'll share later. We got to take a 30 minute walking tour of the Chinese theatre, and we got free tickets to be in the audience of 'Let's Make A Deal' with Wayne Brady! Then, with all our feet aching, we headed to the nearest Wally world to pick up food stuffs.
I can officially say that I've been shopping in the LA 'hood, according to the cashiers, and the only WalMart that's inside a shopping mall. XD Got our food, got back to the hotel, and I literally shoved everything off the bed, crawled under the covers, and collapsed, contacts still in and all. ^^; Tiiiiiiiiired! Hubby woke me up to take out my contacts, and then I was out again.
Getting up now, getting ready to go be on Wayne Brady's show (WOOT!), and then? Who knows. We're going to go visit the Hyperion at some point (yes, I am a dork), as well as Angel's mansion, Buffy's house, and the Halliwell house. XD So! I'll post piccies later (maybe tonight, depending on how out of it I'll be), but I gotta run for now. Wish me luck!!
We left Cinci Friday afternoon, via Delta airlines, for the flight to the LA airport that lasted four hours and four minutes, according to the pilot. Not a horrible flight at all, although flying doesn't agree with me exactly. Ginger pills to the rescue! XD Mythbuster tested, Raven approved! Got to LA, took about an hour to get our rental van, then drove to our hotel... which seemed rather seedy. Rodeway Inn in the middle of what looked to be kind of a kind of ghetto neighborhood. So... we drove around the corner to have dinner at Subway, talked to the locals, and found out that the Clarion across the street was a lot better. So! There we stayed! Checked in, aaaaand... collapse. XD Tired!
Woke up the next morning around 8 our time, 5 LA time. Couldn't get back to sleep, puttered around a bit, checking out what we wanted to do locally, got a hotel for when we go to San Jose tomorrow (We're going to the Winchester mansion, WOOT!), and then off we went, sometimes around 11 local time! Our hotel is within walking distance of downtown, so we checked out some of the local street stuff (there was also some street fair going on), spent a little time at Macarthur Park, and I got a cute new denim skirt at some street store where the guy barely spoke English. XD My mom got a couple shirts too, and cuuuuuuute! Afterwards, we had lunch at a small food court nearby, since we were all starving. Mom and hubby had Subway, Dad and I had some place called Oishi Teriyaki. XD Yummy! ;P
Once we were done, we loaded in the van and drove down to Grauman's Chinese Theatre, checked out some of the walk of fame (I got piccies I'll upload later! XD), the handprints in the concrete, and picked up a few souvenirs in a local shop. I even got to see the church of Scientology! XDD That amused me so much I took a picture, that I'll share later. We got to take a 30 minute walking tour of the Chinese theatre, and we got free tickets to be in the audience of 'Let's Make A Deal' with Wayne Brady! Then, with all our feet aching, we headed to the nearest Wally world to pick up food stuffs.
I can officially say that I've been shopping in the LA 'hood, according to the cashiers, and the only WalMart that's inside a shopping mall. XD Got our food, got back to the hotel, and I literally shoved everything off the bed, crawled under the covers, and collapsed, contacts still in and all. ^^; Tiiiiiiiiired! Hubby woke me up to take out my contacts, and then I was out again.
Getting up now, getting ready to go be on Wayne Brady's show (WOOT!), and then? Who knows. We're going to go visit the Hyperion at some point (yes, I am a dork), as well as Angel's mansion, Buffy's house, and the Halliwell house. XD So! I'll post piccies later (maybe tonight, depending on how out of it I'll be), but I gotta run for now. Wish me luck!!