Boarded a plane for LA and it was a pretty uneventful flight...
So we left Syd at 1pm on Sunday and arrived in LA at 11am Sunday as well...
With only half a day in LA, we knew we were prepared to hit the ground running...
Got to the hotel which is really nice! It is in the Japanese district of LA with lots of Japanese restaurants and shops up the street. Our room was on the top floor and looking down, I could see a line of people waiting outside certain sushi/udon restaurants... Must be good...
After depositing our bags in the hotel, we grabbed lunch at a nearby Japanese restaurant and then headed to Hollywood. Took the red line train from nearby the hotel to Hollywood/Vine to follow the Walk of Fame stars towards Hollywood/Highland. The Highland side of Hollywood Boulevard is the busiest side and it was interesting to notice that there were a few people sleeping and begging by the side of the street near Vine but less towards Highland as the surroundings grew more upmarket.
As we walked towards El Capitan Theatre, the road was blocked and the local police advised us that there would be a TV show premiere there in an hour or so. The show was Once Upon a Time... I have probably seen the show once but don't really follow it so don't know any of the actors except Ginnifer Goodwin.
We crossed the road and continued to Grauman's Chinese Theatre to have a look at the celebrity hand and footprints and autographs in the concrete outside the theatre.
Just near the Chinese theatre, there is a huge candy/chocolate store that was pretty amazing. Marika spotted one of the actors from Modern Family shopping there. We also got to create our own chocolate bars. Mine was dark chocolate with nutella filling and M&M's, popping candy and cookie dough... decadent and so yummmm!!
While we were waiting for them to make the chocolate bars, we rode the elevator to the top floor of the building that happened to have a balcony and it was a great spot to check out the red carpet that just started across the street... We were actually very fortunate to find such a nice vantage point as there seemed to be lots of screaming people there trying to get a glimpse of stars but people didn't seem to know about the balcony where we were. I took a few photos that I posted (I had to check IMDB to try to find out the names of the people and I still don't know who some of them are...)
After all the star spotting, we had dinner and then an early night because it's an early start because tomorrow we are off to VEGAS baby!! The hotel staff tell us that it's fairly safe to walk from the station back to the hotel and we did pass the LA police station and I did see police walking around the street... I also noticed a couple of 24 hour bail bond shops though which I have never seen before.
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