Saturday 10 August
We went to breakfast and left at 9am to head to our Hollywood City Tours at 11am. Alana, our driver was awesome and started the tour at 10.45am. We visited Hollywood Hills where we could see the LA skyline and Hollywood Sign, however, it was further away than we thought. We saw Runyon Canyon Park which is apparently where the celebs walk their dogs or have their dog walkers walk their dogs. We drove through the expensive Mulholland Drive, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and saw Celebrity Houses such as Gwen Stefani, Brittany Spears, Leonardo di Caprio, Bruno Mars, Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (houses were next door to each other), Sylvester Salome, Simon Cowell, and ‘Tony Stark’s’ house in the Marvel Movies. We drove along Rodeo Drive seeing the expensive cars and shops. The tour was awesome!
We then did the Hollywood Walk of Fame and got some yummy frozen yogurt. We headed to Venice Beach and stopped at the Venice Canals. We had previously seen a ridiculously long queue for In-n-out Burgers so decided to get an early dinner. It was good value, simple but good! Tayla, Danika, and Josh got a Lime Scooter so they could Lime from Venice Beach to Santa Monica Pier. Unfortunately, they are banned from the walking/cycling path so they ended up liming the back streets and walking the last part along Santa Monica beach. Santa Monica Pier was so crowded but we enjoyed being there for sunset. There were lots of stalls, Pacific Park theme park and people entertaining for tips. Holly Brunt who is at Summer Camp in Redding, California was in Burbank for the night picking up kids to take to camp, so we went and picked her up from her hotel at Burbank and then went to the
Griffith Observatory. We didn’t realise, but it closed at 10pm, so Chris dropped everyone off to the Observatory which was an incredible view over LA and then went to find parking but was told if they were in the park after 10pm they would get a $175USD fine so Chris drove back up and picked the others up and we drove back down. Then we drove around in search of Downtown LA and drove past lots of homeless, some with tents set up and rubbish everywhere. We then found the Graffiti Walls in the Arts District/Fashion District. We dropped Holly off and headed back to our hotel in Anaheim. On the way home there was an accident on the freeway which had us stopped for about 30 mins. Some cars next to us failed to stop and created another nose to tail. The cars drive so fast on the freeway, especially at night time.
