It's Hollywood time!!!!!

Monday 11th July 2011

We got up in the morning feeling great! Went for a walk up to a tourist booking centre and sorted out our activities for the next 4 days!
First stop was a Hollywood Tour! It was a 7 hour trip that started with a courtesy bus pick up from another hotel to drive us to Hollywood.
We then boarded our tour bus and had a really awesome tour guide, full of knowledge and a real laugh! First stop was a lookout over Miami Beach. It was really nice and of course we had to get a pic of the route 66 sign!

Then it was back on the bus for a trip through Beverly Hills & Bel Air checking out all the houses of the rich and famous! We stopped out the front of the likes of Demi Moore & Ashton Kutcher, Calista Flockhart & Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes, Jacki Chan, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith, Jennifer Anniston and the list goes on!

The next stop a walk down Rodeo Drive. Heaps of designer shops, hefty price tags and tourists! we did a little celeb watching a 'think' we saw one of the Kardashian sisters riding in the back seat of a black convertable Jeep! She was ducking down, trying to lay accross the back seat and a heap of Japanese tourists were hovering over the car with their cameras trying to get a shot. She sat up briefly which is when we saw the hair and think we were close to identifying her! We also saw THE hotel used in the movie Pretty Woman....along with the shop where Julia Roberts marches in and declares Big Mistake in said movie! It was a pretty cool experience :)

From Rodeo drive to Hollywood Boulavard for a walk down the footpath of 'stars'! We saw many famous stars and enjoyed the sights of the Chinese Temple and Kodak Theatre. this is where you find celebs hand/foot prints and autographs set in concrete. The theatre is where they hold the Oscars every year. There is many a 'character' found along this strip and for a small donation you can stop and have your photo taken with them!

The tour ended with a drive up a Mountain to get a very distant glimpse of the infamous Hollywood sign. We were a little disappointed as we thought this would be the highlight of the trip, but it really was just too far away. We will go back next year but will drive ourselves to a GPS address I found online where we can walk to almost the fencing of the sign and get a better picture and look!!!

     
The view in the opposite direction was pretty good and here is a pic of Col, the boys (Rhyce, Korey & Mitchell) and I at the top over looking LA :)