LA

Were here in LA for a good few days so i think this will be the first post of a few. We arrived from Hawaii at around 10 in the evening and took a shuttle straight to Hollywood, skipping through major traffic jams, on the way we had a great view of the smog that covers LA. We got to our hostel and crashed.

The next day we headed to a new hostel and taxi'd down Hollywood Blvd. We dropped our stuff and headed down the road. First stop was the walk of fame, which is all the stars on the floor, not that interesting really, we also stopped off at the kodak theatre and the chinese theatre. Checked out where everyone puts their hands in the concrete and then headed for the Hollywood museum. In the basement is the exact corridor and cell used for hannibal lecter in the silence of the lambs, its pretty eirie. I sneaked a photo on my phone, as we were not allowed cameras in there, i'l post it asap. The museum also contains loads of memorabilia from Indiana jones, the mummy, death on the nile, planet of the apes and loads others. It was run by an old woman who'd had far too much plastic surgery and a Michael jackson style nose! In the evening we headed to the pig and whistle for dinner.

LA so far is a wierd place, but its never boring. From the countless people dressed up as film characters to the insane homeless who appear to be talking to everyone and no-one at the same time. Often shouting profanities and being racist. Everything is about the movies, absoloutly everything, but thats just hollywood. We head to venice and Santa monica tomorrow.

Yesterday we got up and went to Universal studios to do some more touristy stuff. First we went on the studio and backlot tour. Heading around the sound stages currently in use for CSI and NAtional Treasure 2, then onto the city backlots, used for back to the future, bruce almighty, spiderman and just about every city scene in a universal film. Next it was off to Wisteria Lane, which we didnt even know was here, crusied pass, i think the names are, Susan and Gabriels houses and the rest of the street, rastrick was loving it, cant believe he watches that program, but anywho. Next was off to the plane crash site in war of the worlds which was pretty amazing and looked exactly like the film did. After that the bates motel and house from phsyco. Also the areas for king kong, jaws and the mummy aswell. At the end we went pass a set in creation for national treasure 2.

After the tour we went on all the rides/attractions, back to the future, the mummy, jurassic park, T2 and finally waterworld, which was by far the best, got some good photos aswell. We also walked through the house of horrors, which is like a ghost house but worse because it has real people in there ready to jump out on you and its almost pitch black the whole way around, the mummy got me, scared the crap out of me, green got got by the mummy, dracula, the werewolf and the hunchback, i think they were picking on him, leatherface got rastrick and almost hit me on the head with his chainsaw. The interesting part was walking through a room with bodies hanging from the cieling in clear body bags and you have to push your way through. There was a sign at the entrance that said 'May be too intense for children'!

The evening was a bit mad. I think it deserves its own post.